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“She looks at the boundaries between what is and what is not considered nude, thinking about art and obscenity, or more subtly, thinking about pornography versus erotica.” Read more...
The best books on Understanding the Nude
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Our most recommended books
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The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari -
The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
by Joseph Leo Koerner -
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger -
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy
by Michael Baxandall -
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark
by Don Thompson -
Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image
by Christopher P. Heuer