| Description |
175 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Preface / Peter Kuhnst -- Portfolio I -- From 1852 to 1900 / Peter Kuhnst and Walter Borgers -- Portfolio II -- The 1920s and 1930s / Peter Kuhnst and Walter Borgers -- Portfolio III -- Postmodernism and postmodern mannerism / Peter Kuhnst -- Portfolio IV |
| Summary |
"Peter Kuhnst's selection of images traces the history of the nude athlete in photography from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. From Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies of runners and javelin throwers, through European Naturism, the painterly photography of Pictorialism and Leni Riefenstahl's work under the Third Reich, to contemporary photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber and Annie Leibovitz, the list of photographers is long and varied, and their styles range from traditional to rebellious to humorous to provocative."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Nude in art.
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Photography, Artistic.
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Athletes -- Portraits.
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Athletes -- Pictorial works.
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Photography of sports.
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Photography of the nude.
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Athletes in art.
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| Genre/Form |
Portraits.
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Pictorial works.
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Portraits.
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Illustrated works.
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| Author |
Borgers, Walter.
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Kühnst, Peter, 1946-
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| LC no. |
2003111314 |
| ISBN |
050028475X paperback |
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