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Kenneth Clark
These A.W. Mellon Lectures delivered at the National Art Gallery in Washington, D.C., in 1953 and here presented with 298 illustrations explore the tradition of the nude in western sculpture and painting from the Greeks to Picasso. As Sir Kenneth Clark, one of the foremost contemporary art historians, brilliantly argues, the naked body is a starting point for a work of art embodying the highest reaches of human emotion and intelligence. Just as the Greek Apollos and Venuses reflect in their beautiful counterpoise of tensions the logic and clarity of the classical view of the universe, in following centuries the great western artists, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Rubens, Dürer, Ingres, Poussin, Delacroix, Renoir,
January 1, 1956 by Doubleday Anchor
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Kenneth Clark
