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26 reflections on nude images from the history of Western art including Rembrandt, Goya, David Hockney and Nan Golden. The authors, both philosophers, develop an approach to the nude that involves shedding preconceived concepts and exposing ourselves to the fleeting sense that passes over the surface of the nude’s skin and over the surface of the image.

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"At times a hard philosophical road to slog, 'Being Nude' gives you a multidimensional, multimedia, multigenerational musing on the nude that may not lay all the facts perfectly bare, but will leave you looking at and thinking about the nude in a different way than ever before." -Big Think

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Nus sommes Preamble Acephale Bathsheba Caress Disfiguration Equivocal Fenestration Goya Humus Incarnate Joker Khaos Lumbar Model Nimbus Optic Presence Quotidian Resurrection Scopophilia Trans Use Veritas We X Y Zero

Being Nude

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    A Paperback / softback by Jean-Luc Nancy, Federico Ferrari, Anne O'Byrne

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 1 August 2014
      ISBN-13 9780823256211
      978-0823256211
      ISBN-10 0823256219

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      26 reflections on nude images from the history of Western art including Rembrandt, Goya, David Hockney and Nan Golden. The authors, both philosophers, develop an approach to the nude that involves shedding preconceived concepts and exposing ourselves to the fleeting sense that passes over the surface of the nude’s skin and over the surface of the image.

      Trade Review
      "At times a hard philosophical road to slog, 'Being Nude' gives you a multidimensional, multimedia, multigenerational musing on the nude that may not lay all the facts perfectly bare, but will leave you looking at and thinking about the nude in a different way than ever before." -Big Think

      Table of Contents
      Nus sommes Preamble Acephale Bathsheba Caress Disfiguration Equivocal Fenestration Goya Humus Incarnate Joker Khaos Lumbar Model Nimbus Optic Presence Quotidian Resurrection Scopophilia Trans Use Veritas We X Y Zero

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