Le Louvre nu : peintures = paintings / Catherine Belanger, Jean Galard, Lois Lammerhuber
- 作者: Belanger, Catherine
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- 出版: Baden, Austria : Edition Lammerhuber 2008
- 主題: Musee du Louvre , Nude in art , Painting, European--Themes, motives
- ISBN: 9783901753091 (pbk.) :: US$94.16 、 3901753095 (pbk.)
- 一般註:French and English
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- 系統號: 005207094 | 機讀編目格式
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摘要註
The idea for this book was born in the course of a visit through the Louvre, when Catherine Belanger ventured to call the Louvre 'the biggest brothel in the world'. Jointly with author Jean Galard and photographer Lois Lammerhuber, she selected key paintings spanning five centuries to illustrate the fascinating art of depicting nudity and the artists' struggle for acceptance of the nude in art and society. Lois Lammerhuber detaches the nudity, sensuality and sexuality of the paintings from the context of their artistic intention, conceiving them as 'material' in a fictional photography studio and recreating them in his photographs. He resorts to these 'models' to translate them into the language of fashion, nude and advertising photography, reading their body language and interaction in a way reminiscent of artists like Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Horst P. Horst or Herb Ritts - sensual and unexpected