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Title: The Nude Male: 21st Century Visions
ISBN: 0789317567
Author:
David Leddick
Publicate Date: 2008-09-23
Publish: 2008-09-23
List Price: $39.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: The Nude Male book
Great variety of male nudes by painters as well as photographers. There are a ton of books of male nudes in photographs but too few of painters who work with the male body.
David Bolger, for example, is a very interesting painter and his beautiful painting "The Bath" is here.
David Leddick is an amazingly versatile and interesting creator in many, many media.
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2: Beautiful Book
This book is very nicely designed and has many photographers featured. It also contains paintings from very important artists. It's great to see the way every artist interprets the male nude.
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3: The Nude Review
I purchased this book after seeing David Leddick's "The Male Nude". The Male Nude portrayed male nude photography throughout the history of photography. This new book "The Nude Male: 21st Century Visions" observes artists who are working with the Nude Male in this contemporary world of art. The photographs are all at a high quality, many large prints.
The descriptions of the artists who are working with the nude male are very brief. I would like to have seen more information on the artists to do further research. After seeing this book I don't know if I would consider David Leddick a critic or simply a collector of these photographic compositions. There is a small mix of paintings and drawings of the nude male, but mostly these images are photographs. The majority is of white nude males, a small amount of African Americans, one elderly, one overweight, and one handicap nude male.
I think that the interesting aspect of this book compared to some of Leddick's other works is the increase in homo-eroticism and how fashion has influenced the way the male nude is portrayed. (Just some of my own observations).
I gave it 4 starts for its high quality and the large amount of artists that were included in this book, but I would have liked to have more information to accompany the artist's work and/or intentions of their art.
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