About the book
Kenneth Clark traces the nude in art from the Greeks to Renoir and Moore, following how notions of the ideal body kept changing and how the nude served as a basis of humanist form. His introductory chapter sets out a much-quoted distinction, which he did not originate, between being naked, meaning stripped of clothes, with the embarrassment and shame that implies, and the nude, a work of art that carries no such associations. First published in 1956, the book is often cited in art history.
Paul Graham wrote that Clark's casual-seeming style hides more than a library of art monographs, and likened reading it to a ride in a Ferrari.
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His style is deceptively casual, but there is more in his books than in a library of art monographs. Reading The Nude is like a ride in a Ferrari.
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