Adam - Tapa dura

Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 192 pages; Physical description: 192 p. : illus. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Summary: A fascinating study of the male nude in art : the image which provokes the most powerful of taboos but which has dominated the history of art for centuries. In this incisive and witty text Edward Lucie Smith provides a valuable insight into the co mplex social, political and sexual contexts of the male nude. Contents: The ideal beauty - the Greeks; the heroic nude - the Romans; fear and loathing - Christianity and sexual shame; the revival of paganism - the rediscovery of the male nude in Renaissance Italy; surpassing antiquity - Michaelangelo and his influence; taming the male - Boucher and the French Rococo; the re-emergence of the heroic - French neo-Classicism; the male in decline - the 19th and early 20th centuries; emblems of eroticism - male nudity and the rise of modernism; the noble savage - representations of the male in tribal art; furthering the frontiers - the male in 20th-century photography.