Download or read book The Face of the Nude written by John Brophy and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written by the renowned author, art collector and critic John Brophy, this book provides a penetrating, comparative study of the nude in Western art, and the way artists throughout history have depicted the face in relation to the naked human body. In over 23,000 words, Mr. Brophy explores the ever-changing relationship between the nude and the portrayal of faces in each period, from the Archaic and Classical epochs through the Renaissance, from the Baroque and Rococo periods to the Impressionists, the Post-Impressionists and beyond." -- From jacket flap.
Download or read book The Face of a Naked Lady written by Michael Rips and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rips returns to his Omaha family home to discover a hidden portfolio of paintings--all done by his late father, all of a naked black woman. So begins a gloriously funny yet deeply serious gem of a book that offers more than a little redemption in our cynical times.
Download or read book The Naked Face written by Sidney Sheldon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judd Stevens is a psychoanalyst faced with the most critical case of his life. If he does not penetrate the mind of a murderer he will find himself arrested for murder or murdered himself... Two people closely involved with Dr. Stevens have already been killed. Is one of the doctor's patients responsible? Someone overwhelmed by his problems? A neurotic driven by compulsion? A madman? Before the murderer strikes again, Judd must strip away the mask of innocence the criminal wears, uncover the inner emotions, fears, and desires, to expose . . .
Download or read book Tasteful Nudes written by Dave Hill and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious book of essays from comedian, "This American Life" contributor, and rock god Hill. His collection of mind-blowing essays recollect real life experiences of a grown man with red-hot action, startling emotion, and borderline futuristic insights.
Download or read book Nude Awakening written by Victor L. Martin and published by Wahida Clark Presents Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After pulling a fifteen year bid, thirty-three year old Trevon is out to get back on his feet. His mind-set isn't focused on the quick come up by reverting back to the streets. He has his mind set on using his body and handsome looks to tap into the porn industry and earn a living as an adult film actor. Trevon will learn quickly how much times have changed since his decade and a half incarceration. His life will spin out of balance due to drama that he can't control. Sex, lies and pure lust will overwhelm him until he is forced to face reality, or face a Nude Awakening.
Download or read book The Renaissance Nude written by Thomas Kren and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gloriously illustrated examination of the origins and development of the nude as an artistic subject in Renaissance Europe Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more than 250 artworks by the greatest masters of the Renaissance. Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, and book illustrations reveal private, sometimes shocking, preoccupations as well as surprising public beliefs—the Age of Humanism from an entirely new perspective. This book presents works by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Martin Schongauer in the north and Donatello, Raphael, and Giorgione in the south; it also introduces names that deserve to be known better. A publication this rich in scholarship could only be produced by a variety of expert scholars; the sixteen contributors are preeminent in their fields and wide-ranging in their knowledge and curiosity. The structure of the volume—essays alternating with shorter texts on individual artworks—permits studies both broad and granular. From the religious to the magical and the poetic to the erotic, encompassing male and female, infancy, youth, and old age, The Renaissance Nude examines in a profound way what it is to be human.
Download or read book Veils Nudity and Tattoos written by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first sight, tattoos, nudity, and veils do not seem to have much in common except for the fact that all three have become more frequent, more visible, and more dominant in connection with aesthetic presentations of women over the past thirty years. No longer restricted to biker and sailor culture, tattoos have been sanctioned by the mainstream of liberal societies. Nudity has become more visible than ever on European beaches or on the internet. The increased use of the veil by women in Muslim and non-Muslim countries has developed in parallel with the aforementioned phenomena and is just as striking. Through the means of conceptual analysis, Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos: The New Feminine Aesthetics reveals that these three phenomena can be both private and public, humiliating and empowering, and backward and progressive. This unorthodox approach is traced by the three’s similar social and psychological patterns, and by doing so, Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos hopes to sketch the image of a woman who is not only sexually emancipated and confident, but also more and more aware of her cultural heritage.
Download or read book The Plot written by Irving Wallace and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 1177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you were in a position of authority and these five came to you at the life-and-death Summit Conference in Paris with the incredible details of The Plot would you believe any one of them? Matt Brennan—once a trusted member of the State Department until his life was shattered by accusations of treason … Medora Hart—young, ravishing, beautiful, whose involvement in a Profumo-like scandal had all but toppled an English government … Jay Thomas Doyle—once a renowned and respected columnist, now struggling desperately to recapture his lost fame by a most dangerous expos? … Hazel Smith—an embittered American foreign correspondent and the mistress of a man high up in the inner circles of the Kremlin … Emmett A. Earnshaw—an ex-President of the United States, fighting an all but hopeless battle against a ruthless German munitions tycoon to retain an honorable place in history …
Download or read book Books of Nudes written by Alessandro Bertolotti and published by . This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertolotti explores the history of nude photography, from the first academic snapshots all the way to the most audacious avant-gardists. Organized chrono-thematically and accompanied by socio-cultural analysis, this book includes the works by Germaine Krull, Man Ray, Bill Brandt, Araki, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Jean-Loup Sieff.
Download or read book The Victorian Nude written by Alison Smith and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smith reveals how images of the nude were used at all levels of Victorian culture, from prestigious high-art paintings through to photographs and popular entertainments; and discusses the many views as to whether these were legitimate forms of representation or, in fact, pornography and an incitement to unregulated sexual activity.
Download or read book The Face written by David St. John and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting and inventive book length sequence of poems from the distinguished author of Study for the World's Body. The Face is both fiercely lyrical and intimately conversational. Coming to terms with the failure of a great love, the speaker descends into his own dark night of the soul. Here are poems that explore the drama of the shattered self in a variety of voices, calling on memory to speak and imagination to make beauty from the shards. Slowly, the speaker reassembles his life and again finds faith in himself and the world. These poems reveal a swirling cinematic poetry of visionary scope; meditative and confessional in some moments, ironic and playful in others. Deeply passionate and raw in its candour, The Face may be for this generation of poets what Lowell's Life Studies and Ashbery's Self–Portrait in a Convex Mirror were.
Download or read book John Hedgecoe s Nude and Portrait Photography written by John Hedgecoe and published by Olympic Marketing Corporation. This book was released on 1985 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to photographing the human body includes discussions of lighting, lenses, backgrounds, camera angles, and special effects
Download or read book Composition written by David Prakel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strong images only come about through a combination of technical excellence and thorough composition. While there is plenty of technical advice, photographers often turn to fine-art sources for the so-called 'rules of composition'. This book, however, acknowledges photography's quite different dynamic and offers a contemporary approach to composition more suited to the medium. The second edition of Basics Photography 01: Composition offers a contemporary approach to composition. Its six core chapters cover historical background and personal motivation, formal elements, space and time within the photographic frame and composition in real-world situations. The Basics Photography series, originally published by AVA Publishing, comprises a collection of titles including: Lighting, Composition, Capturing Colour, Post-Production Black & White, Post-Production Colour, Working in Black & White and Exposure. Easily accessible and highly readable, the books clearly explain and explore fundamental photographic concepts; they are fully indexed and illustrated with clear diagrams and inspiring imagery, building to provide an essential introduction to the subject.
Download or read book Nude written by Kym Jackson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I love being naked. I do everything in the nude even gardening " (Eva Mendes) Call it a modern day Joy of Sex meets Fit for Life, "Nude: Unveiling Your Inner Beauty and Sensuality" features tips and techniques embraceable by a married mom of three or a single parent who's dating. In a warm and friendly voice, close friends Jackson and Roemer understand the challenges faced by contemporary women and are, themselves, wives and mothers (AND grandmothers), who share tips and lend advice for women on enhancing their marriages, improving their partnerships and perking up their dating lives. Nude is a digestible, easy to follow guide to finding one's sexuality, but also how to improve your mental and physical fitness, health and nutrition.
Download or read book The Beauty of Choice written by Wendy Steiner and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Beauty of Choice, the renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art, she casts women’s taste as the engine of liberal values. Steiner reframes long-standing questions surrounding desire, art, sexual assault, and beauty in light of #MeToo. Beginning with an opera she wrote based on Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” she presents women’s sexual choices as fundamentally aesthetic in nature—expressions of their taste—and artworks as stagings of choice in courtship, coquetry, consent, marriage, and liberation. A merger of art criticism, evolutionary theory, political history, and aesthetics, this book paints the struggle between female autonomy and patriarchal violence and extremism as the essence of art. The Beauty of Choice pursues its claims through a striking diversity of examples: Sei Shōnagon’s defense of pleasure in the Pillow Book; Picasso’s and Balthus’s sexualization of their models; the redefinition of “waste” in postmodern fiction; and interactivity and empathy in the works of contemporary artists such as Marlene Dumas, Barbara MacCallum, Kristin Beeler, and Hannah Gadsby. It offers the first critical study of Heroines, a memorial to the twenty thousand women raped in Kosovo during the Serbian genocide. This deeply original book gives taste, beauty, and pleasure central roles in a passionate defense of women’s freedom.
Download or read book The Nude Detective written by M. J. Parker and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fun, fast-paced private-detective novel with strong and interesting characters. Ethan Booker, a Vancouver based billionaire-cum-detective, isn't shy to use his wealth to help people when the legal system can't or won't. His reconnection with an old flame, Marcy, creates waves in his high performing team, particularly since she is a police detective and Ethan's team does not always follow the law. In this first book in the series, an assassin targeting Marcy pulls The Booker Detective Agency into a fight with an international crime ring. A unique cast of characters forms a formidable bond while they jet and boat around the world to take down the criminals
Download or read book Conversations in the Nude written by Mihir Srivastava and published by Harper. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Nudity is not the end of the exercise, it is the beginning.' Mihir Srivastava sketches naked people. He is fascinated by the tension it calls to the room, the taboos it challenges, the vulnerabilities it exposes and how it sometimes empowers people. Nudity is not just about shedding clothes, he believes, but about letting down a shield that we think protects us. In a world where the bare body is something to be hidden, to protect our children against, to be banned as obscene, there is no freedom to strip. Not without infringing on the freedom of those who are clothed. Through his search to understand this, Mihir has created what he calls 'a private space for public nudity'. Public nudity within closed doors. It is still public, because there is no context for this interaction in the raw. No relationship, no prospect of sexual intimacy. This is an artistic collaboration, or perhaps a social experiment, maybe both. Conversations in the Nude maps that experiment, presents those sketches, chronicles several remarkable sessions. These are the stories of one man's crazy dream, and of the very many who saw some sense in it.
