The nude in art and poetry — from traditional to contemporary artists — that elevate human beings in their natural state.
Now you can enjoy the popular Nudie Toons in one impressive 160-pages, full-color book volume.
Nudie Toons began in 1998 when Ron Coleman was approached by Jan Crimmings about doing a weekly cartoon for her nudist website. When Jan heard that Ron was not a practicing nudist, she was hesitant to hire him. Ron convinced her, however, that he was a firm believer in personal freedom and supportive of naturism, and that he could create humor from the nudist point of view. She gave him the goahead, and he has been producing these cartoons weekly for almost then years. The series became the most successful cartoon feature ever created. His cartoons still appear on the NetNude website and on his own site.
A distinctive body of work that has given a fresh impulse to modern sculpture.The stunning and carefully crafted sculpture of Australian artist Ron Mueck has catapulted him into the first rank of the contemporary art world. This book is a record of his recent exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, for which he created an ensemble of new sculptures, two of which are of gargantuan scale.
Mueck explores reality's ambiguous relationship with artifice. Brilliantly employing the strategies of imitation and illusion, he creates figures that express the contradictions between the real world and the world of the imaginary. His lifelike figures with their veins, wrinkles, sagging skin, and moles have been crafted to such perfection that the remarkably convincing result is deeply disturbng. 90 color illustrations. (English & French languages)
The career of the greatest painter of the Twentieth Century was played out in the shadows of Eros – and of Thanatos.
Mahatma Gandhi was appalled and unsuccessfully advocated the removal of friezes from the centuries old Khajuraho temple walls.
