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Broché, 767 pages
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The
Male Nude
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It is impossible to separate out the history of representations of the
naked male from the history of gay male culture, sensibility, or erotica.
From the statuary of classical Greece to Michelangelo's David to the
photography of Robert Mapplethorpe, the nude male form has signified for
gay men not only sexual desire but homosexuality itself.
David Leddick's The Male Nude is an almost 800-page survey of the nude
male in photography of the past century that presents us with the changes
in body type, beauty, and sexual affect that have occurred over the past
100 years, but with evolving notions of "art" and
"culture" as well. From Victorian prints of strong men to the
"health" photos of the 1940s and '50s to the works of
contemporary artists such as Mapplethorpe, Bruce Weber, and Nan Goldin,
David Leddick charts the evolutions that the male body--and gay
culture--have taken for ten decades. --Michael Bronski
Book Description
The very best and most impressive images from the original klotz of
this title are included here- you'll find the likes of Robert Mapplethorpe,
Herb Ritts, David Hockney, George Platt Lynes, Cecil Beaton, Nan Goldin,
Wolfgang Tillmans, Pierre et Gilles, and even Chuck Close. For anyone who
worships the male body or wants to know why others do... |
