SOURCE: Nead, Lynda. “Getting Down to Basics: Art, Obscenity and the Female Nude.” In New Feminist Discourses: Critical Essays on Theories and Texts, edited by Isobel Armstrong, pp. 199-221. London and New York: Routledge, 1992.
In the following essay, Nead describes the eighth edition of Clark's The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art as a book which studies the art of the nude from Greek antiquity to European modernism, and goes on to study the ideals of the nude applying the philosophies of Clark and Immanuel Kant.
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