Reveals the history of naked portraiture comparing artworks and photographs.

The nude has inspired artists for centuries and continues to inspire us today. Alongside a historical study of the nude in painting, this book introduces oil pa

A new volume in the acclaimed World of Art series: featuring work across a range of media that represents the human body.

"Explores the themes and stylistic developments of the art of Alice Neel, one of the greatest American painters of the twentieth century, with works spanning ne

The representation of the nude in art remained for many centuries a victory of fiction over fact. Beautiful, handsome, flawless its great success was to distanc