The Nude: The Cultural Rethoric of the Body in the Art of Western

From the Renaissance to modern times, this extensively illustrated, concise new volume addresses ways that paintings of the nude engage questions of sexuality, gender, class, age and race fundamental to the history of culture and society. "The Nude" explores some of the principal ways that nude paintings function in the conflicted terrain of culture and society in Europe and America from the 15th to 20th centuries.