Naked Truth: Approachers to the Body in Early-twentieth-Century German-Austrian Art
by Matthias, Bettina
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Middlebury, VT: Middlebury College Museum of Art, 2015. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 111 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Color pictures throughout. In 1899 Gustav Klimt's painting Nuda Veritas shook up the Austrian public with what many deem to be the painter's most political exploration of the nude female body. Klimt's provocative allegory challenged viewers to consider their own beliefs about the relationship between the nude (female) body and contemporary morality; this "naked truth" was shocking. Transcending accusations of pornography, Klimt's work paved the way for artistic examinations of the nude body as the site through which questions of freedom, desire, beauty, nature, culture, power, and their antonyms could be represented and negotiated. Taking these ideas as one critical point of departure, this volume and the accompanying exhibition feature selected prints, drawings, and watercolors by Klimt, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz, among others. It explores the conceptions of the human body and the manner of its visualization in the period leading up to and following the First World War, which changed the world's notions of flesh and blood forever. Record # 369048
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- Title
- Naked Truth: Approachers to the Body in Early-twentieth-Century German-Austrian Art
- Author
- Matthias, Bettina
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1928825109
- ISBN 13
- 9781928825104
- Publisher
- Middlebury College Museum of Art
- Place of Publication
- Middlebury, VT
- Date Published
- 2015
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- Art, Exhibition, , .
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- art;
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