The Nude in the XX & XXI Century Jane Neal Sotheby's Gallery Selling Exhibition

Description: S|2 - THE NUDE IN THE XX & XXI CENTURY: A SELLING EXHIBITION, Curated by Jane NealUndated, but presumed to be 2015 1st ed -"A SELLING EXHIBITION 19 NOVEMBER 2015 - 15 JANUARY 2016 31 ST. GEORGE STREET, LONDON W1S 2FJ ... Sotheby's GALLERY" curated & written by Jane Neal, no dust jacket (as issued), 124pp., text sound albeit with yellowing to page edges, very slight bumping to board corners - heavier to the top, bottom & sides of boards & spine, both boards have a number of marks, scratches & indentations.The naked human body has the power to compel, to shock and to seduce. From the heroic, muscular male forms of Antiquity to the reclining odalisques of 19th-Century painting, nude figures have dominated the artistic traditions of the Western world. Curated by Jane Neal, The Nude in the XX and XXI brought together work by artists that revolutionized this tradition in the Modern era with new art that explores today’s attitudes to the body in the raw. The 31 artists selected for the show ranged from pioneering painters Egon Schiele and Lucien Freud to artists including Louise Bourgeois, Marina Abramović and Tracey Emin, whose intimate explorations of the female body challenge centuries of objectification of women by men in art. Recent and specially commissioned works featured in the exhibition respond to our complex relationship with the naked body in today’s culture. These included the renowned British portrait artist Jonathan Yeo’s study of the of the impact of plastic surgery; new work by the German artist Martin Eder, who looks to the generation “who grew up with Internet porn and have a completely different relationship with the nude”; and paintings by Caroline Walker, who asks “what is it to be a woman and be looked at by men?”.Highlights:• Pablo Picasso, Femme Endormie, 1933• Tamara de Lempicka, Les deux Amies V, 1974• Martin Eder, Full Moon/Holiday Oil, 2015• Attila Szucs, Stars in a Moorland, 2015• Marina Abramovic, Freeing the Body, 1974/2014• Marlene Dumas, That Type of Girl, 1989• Jonathan Yeo, Neo Plane Implant Exchange II, 2012• Tracey Emin, The Perfect Dream, 2014• Noble & Webster, Two Declining Nudes, 2014• Hugo Wilson, Untitled Nude, 2015Artists in the exhibition:Marina Abramović, Zsolt Bodoni, Armin Boehm, Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Paul Cézanne, Mircea Cantor, Tamara de Lempicka, Marlene Dumas, Martin Eder, Tracey Emin, Lucian Freud, Robert Fry, Alberto Giacometti, Antony Gormley, Stéphane Graff, Gustav Klimt, Justin Mortimer, Edvard Munch, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Pablo Picasso, Dione Roach, Egon Schiele, Dennis Scholl, Attila Szucs, Alexander Tinei, Kees van Dongen, Caroline Walker, Tom Wesselmann, Hugo Wilson and Jonathan Yeo.Will ship by Royal Mail 1st Class Signed for, well packaged.(£5.55/b/room/un) Track Page Views WithAuctiva's Counter

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