Live Nude Girl

My Life As an Object

Kathleen Rooney (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2009
University of Arkansas Press (Verlag)
978-1-55728-891-2 (ISBN)

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Offers a meditation on the profession of nude modeling. Combining personal perspective, historical anecdote, and prose, this title reveals that both the appeal of posing nude for artists and the appeal of drawing the naked figure lie in our deeply human responses to beauty, sex, love, and death.

This title offers an art model's take on taking it off. ""Live Nude Girl"" is a lively meditation on the profession of nude modeling - that 'spine-tingling combination of power and vulnerability, submission and dominance' - as it has been practiced in history and as it is practiced today. Kathleen Rooney draws on her own experiences working as an artist's model, as well as on the stories of famous, notorious, and mysterious artists and models through the ages. Combining personal perspective, historical anecdote, and witty prose, Rooney reveals that both the appeal of posing nude for artists and the appeal of drawing the naked figure lie in our deeply human responses to beauty, sex, love, and death.

Kathleen Rooney is the author of Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America, now in its second edition (University of Arkansas Press), as well as the poetry collections Oneiromance (An Epithalamion), Something Really Wonderful, and That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness, the latter two written collaboratively with Elisa Gabbert. Her essay ""Live Nude Girl"" was selected for Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2009
Zusatzinfo	index
Verlagsort	Fayetteville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 237 mm
Gewicht	444 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
ISBN-10	1-55728-891-7 / 1557288917
ISBN-13	978-1-55728-891-2 / 9781557288912
Zustand	Neuware