Nude men : from 1800 to the present day / edited by Tobias G. Natter and Elisabeth Leopold ; [authors, Elke Frietsch ... [et al.] ; translation, Ian Pepper, Bronwen Saunders ; exhibition curators, Tobias G. Natter, Elisabeth Leopold].
Catalog of an exhibition held at Leopold Museum, Vienna, Oct. 19, 2012 - Jan. 28, 2013. Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-342).
Contents:
Poetry of the body. The naked man in the history of art / Elisabeth Leopold -- Nakedness and masculine identity. Negotiations in the public space / Wolfgang Schmale -- On the semantics of male nudity and sexuality. A retrospective / Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat -- The finest behind in Vienna. The Traun river god of the providentia fountain by Georg Rapheal Donner / Michael Krapf -- For and against Winckelmann / Thomas Röske -- Superior and fragile. On the aesthetic of nudity since Winckelmann -- The man who sawed off the branch. Richard Gerstl and the phantasm of the artist's own self / Diethard Leopold -- Stripped bare but not exposed. The male nude in American art / Jonathan Weinberg -- Naked masculinity as a representation of the state. Nude figures during the national socialist era / Elke Frietsch -- Male bodies as contested terrain. Depictions of demasculinization and remasculinization in the contemporary performative arts / Katharina Pewny -- Nude men in advertising / Erich Kirchler and Pia Kirchler -- The long tradition -- The nude life class and its consequences -- The classical idea. Measure and projection -- Heroes as a cultural pattern -- Social bathing -- Vienna around 1900: Gerstl-Schiele-Kolig -- Sorrow -- The battle of the sexes and denial -- Female gazes -- The male gaze: intimate proximity and desire -- The self between norms and revolt.
Summary:
"This exploration includes glimpses into the life-drawing classes of European art academies, representations of men during the time of the French Revolution, "Sturm und Drang" and late Impressionism. It also offers examples of 20th century art. Egon Schiele and Richard Gerstl are the key representatives of radical self-observation in the mirror of the naked self. However, this volume also presents artists such as Jean Cocteau, Antonio Canova, Johann Heinrich Füssli, David Hockney, Ferdinand Hodler, Edvard Munch, Auguste Rodin, Andy Warhol, Nan Goldin and Louise Bourgeois. It contains a variety of essays that examine concepts such as masculinity and the construction of identity, male desire in modern art and the naked man as a motif in advertising."--Publisher's website.
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