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Images show us a world, but they do not show the world. images are not the thing shown itself, they are its representatives: a kind of re-enactment. in fact, the phenomena represented by images may not exist in reality and may be stuck in a dream world, our hopes, dreams or fantasies. on the other hand, of course, we can say that every image is an object that interacts with this world in any way, in general it exists... this book (to a large extent) is about paintings produced in a wide time period, historically from the beginning of the renaissance period to the present day, and considered as modernity. the mentioned images belong to the western world, europe and the americas, the earliest dated around 1427, the newest produced in 1992, with the main emphasis on representational art rather than abstract art. our story tells about naked bodies, that is, nudes...

Richard leppert traces the history of the nude in art, from the past to the present, evaluating it within the context of nakedness, social life, and cultural background. he shows us ways to read the nude in art, to notice its subtleties, and to perceive its messages, along with the questions raised by class, gender, age, and racial discrimination regarding human existence. while measuring the fundamental human characteristics with basic emotions such as happiness, desire, fear, anxiety, and shame, he reveals what the human __t2__ in western modernity is trying to tell us. richard leppert allows us to understand that the nude in art is not just nakedness, but a monument on which the history of the western world is written. __t3__ guides not only professionals and students in the field of art, but also everyone who wants to evaluate and interpret artworks...