The Nude: A Study in Ideal FormFrom the art of the Greeks to that of Renoir and Moore, this work surveys the ever-changing fashions in what has constituted the ideal nude as a basis of humanist form. |
Contents
THE NAKED AND THE NUDE | 3 |
APOLLO | 30 |
VENUS I | 71 |
VENUS II | 118 |
ECSTASY | 273 |
THE ALTERNATIVE CONVENTION | 308 |
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