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Live Nude Girl
Kathleen Rooney
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Description for Live Nude Girl
Hardcover. Offers a meditation on the profession of nude modeling. Combining personal perspective, historical anecdote, and prose, this title reveals that both the appeal of posing nude for artists and the appeal of drawing the naked figure lie in our deeply human responses to beauty, sex, love, and death. Num Pages: 200 pages, index. BIC Classification: AGHN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
This title offers an art model's take on taking it off. ""Live Nude Girl"" is a lively meditation on the profession of nude modeling - that 'spine-tingling combination of power and vulnerability, submission and dominance' - as it has been practiced in history and as it is practiced today. Kathleen Rooney draws on her own experiences working as an artist's model, as well as on the stories of famous, notorious, and mysterious artists and models through the ages. Combining personal perspective, historical anecdote, and witty prose, Rooney reveals that both the appeal of posing nude for artists and the appeal ... Read more
This title offers an art model's take on taking it off. ""Live Nude Girl"" is a lively meditation on the profession of nude modeling - that 'spine-tingling combination of power and vulnerability, submission and dominance' - as it has been practiced in history and as it is practiced today. Kathleen Rooney draws on her own experiences working as an artist's model, as well as on the stories of famous, notorious, and mysterious artists and models through the ages. Combining personal perspective, historical anecdote, and witty prose, Rooney reveals that both the appeal of posing nude for artists and the appeal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557288912
SKU
V9781557288912
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About Kathleen Rooney
Kathleen Rooney is the author of Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America, now in its second edition (University of Arkansas Press), as well as the poetry collections Oneiromance (An Epithalamion), Something Really Wonderful, and That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness, the latter two written collaboratively with Elisa Gabbert. Her essay ""Live Nude Girl"" was selected for Twentysomething Essays by ... Read more
Reviews for Live Nude Girl
Kathleen Rooney boldly and bravely dissects what it means to disrobe in the name of art - and money. For anyone who wants to know why a woman would prefer to be nude rather than naked (and what the difference is), read Live Nude Girl and find out. - Rachel Kramer Bussel, editor of Best Sex Writing 2009 ""Though the ... Read more