To Dress a Nude

To Dress a Nude
Author: Yvette Biro
Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1998
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Nudity

Nudity
Author: Ruth Barcan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2004-06-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Drawing on a wealth of examples, the author addresses a topic that has been largely ignored within cultural studies, despite its ability to shock, titillate or entertain. 'Nudity' is a blend of meaningful minutiae and big philosophical questions about the most unnatural state of nature in the modern West.

Dress, Law and Naked Truth

Dress, Law and Naked Truth
Author: Gary Watt
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2013-08-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1472500431

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Why are civil authorities in so-called liberal democracies affronted by public nudity and the Islamic full-face 'veil'? Why is law and civil order so closely associated with robes, gowns, suits, wigs and uniforms? Why is law so concerned with the 'evident' and the need for justice to be 'seen' to be done? Why do we dress and obey dress codes at all? In this, the first ever study devoted to the many deep cultural connections between dress and law, the author addresses these questions and more. His responses flow from the radical thesis that 'law is dress and dress is law'. Engaging with sources from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare, Carlyle, Dickens and Damien Hirst, Professor Watt draws a revealing history of dress and civil order and offers challenging conclusions about the nature of truth and the potential for individuals to fit within the forms of civil life.

How to Take Your Clothes Off

How to Take Your Clothes Off
Author: Matthew McDermott
Publisher: WriteNude Publishing
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2021-06-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Maybe no one knows it yet—and maybe you’re not sure yourself—but you’re a nudist. You feel good when you’re not wearing anything. It’s not a sexual thing. It’s a physical thing: you’re more comfortable without clothes on. And maybe it’s an emotional or spiritual thing too: you feel better, more at peace when you’re not wearing anything. If this is where you are, and you’re wondering what to do about that, then this book is for you. It's a guide to getting into nudism for anyone who is curious about how to go about it. The whole nudist experience is demystified here. You'll learn about all aspects of the nudist lifestyle, including: - How and why others practice nudism - Finding opportunities to be nude - Tips for attending nudist resorts and beaches - Finding nudist groups in your area - Making nudism a part of your otherwise clothed life If you've ever been curious about nudism, or even just been compelled by the feeling of being totally free of clothes, this book is your best starting point. Read it today, and find your own way into this wonderful, healthy, and wholesome lifestyle.

A Brief History of Nakedness

A Brief History of Nakedness
Author: Philip Carr-Gomm
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1861897294

As one common story goes, Adam and Eve, the first man and woman, had no idea that there was any shame in their lack of clothes; they were perfectly confident in their birthday suits among the animals of the Garden of Eden. All was well until that day when they ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and went scrambling for fig leaves to cover their bodies. Since then, lucrative businesses have arisen to provide many stylish ways to cover our nakedness, for the naked human body now evokes powerful and often contradictory ideas—it thrills and revolts us, signifies innocence and sexual experience, and often marks the difference between nature and society. In A Brief History of Nakedness psychologist Philip Carr-Gomm traces our inescapable preoccupation with nudity. Rather than studying the history of the nude in art or detailing the ways in which the naked body has been denigrated in the media, A Brief History of Nakedness reveals the ways in which religious teachers, politicians, protesters, and cultural icons have used nudity to enlighten or empower themselves as well as entertain us. Among his many examples, Carr-Gomm discusses how advertisers and the media employ images of bare skin—or even simply the word “naked”—to garner our attention, how mystics have used nudity to get closer to God, and how political protesters have discovered that baring all is one of the most effective ways to gain publicity for their cause. Carr-Gomm investigates how this use of something as natural as nakedness actually gets under our skin and evokes complicated and complex emotional responses. From the naked sages of India to modern-day witches and Christian nudists, from Lady Godiva to Lady Gaga, A Brief History of Nakedness surveys the touching, sometimes tragic and often bizarre story of our relationships with our naked bodies.

Books of Nudes

Books of Nudes
Author: Alessandro Bertolotti
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2007-12
Genre: Photography
ISBN:

Bertolotti explores the history of nude photography, from the first academic snapshots all the way to the most audacious avant-gardists. Organized chrono-thematically and accompanied by socio-cultural analysis, this book includes the works by Germaine Krull, Man Ray, Bill Brandt, Araki, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Jean-Loup Sieff.

Nude

Nude
Author: Tanner Tanner Media
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2015-04-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781511963893

! Enjoy this amazing and exclusive collection of nature nude fine art photography by artist Tanner Media for DesertCuties.com. Featuring enhanced color eBook layout and high quality photography! Get motivated and in a good mood today by joining Jane here in this issue as she stretches and bares it all in her black dress. The photography is breathtaking, but there is no word strong enough to describe the effect of the pure beauty of Jane in these 55 Glamour Nude Photographs. Collect Them All! Over 40 issues and adding more weekly! Enjoy thousands more exclusive Glamour Nudes photographed by Tanner Media by searching your book store market for Glamour Nudes today!

101 Things to Do Naked! a Guide to 'Dress-Free' Living

101 Things to Do Naked! a Guide to 'Dress-Free' Living
Author: Catherine Roberts
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2013-10
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781492374411

If you can imagine the audacity of wearing nothing but a smile - while planting a patio garden; if rummaging through an overstuffed wardrobe for something to wear, wears you out; if your weekly dry-cleaning bill is higher than the gas bill for your ATV; then this guide to 'dress-free' living is your next must-read! 101 Things to do Naked! is a nostalgic journey that conveys the qualities of naturism with infamous quotes and true life episodes. At its core is the author's epiphany – a resurgence of the joy in living naked with her induction to cottage country. Consequently, Catherine embarks on a mission to alter a 'clothes-minded' society. Her humorous descriptions of plausible events, however, may keep you in stitches till the end! Tag along with cohorts Jay and Blue, hapless hubby and faithful hound, as they explore the diaphanous side of rural life. A spellbinding journal, this story encompasses four distinct seasons in Atlantic Canada: blackfly, summer, fall, and cold-as-a-witch's-tit! Each time period accentuates the benefits as well as the risks associated with a clothing-free lifestyle. Alternative ways of dealing with public opinion, municipal roads and communal waterways are uncovered with mirth and the certitude of an adept naturist. The hilarity of being caught in the raw is exposed on every occasion with humor and unabashed acuity. Because every reader will identify with at least one or more real life situations, 101 Things to do Naked! A Guide to 'Dress-Free Living will appeal to city slickers and cottage dwellers alike. It's a raucous ride recommended for an immature audience.Personal Note from the Author: Growing up, I adopted the profound misconception that clothing mattered. It mattered if others could see you, it mattered if you wanted others to be seen with you, and it mattered if the weather warranted it. That was then, this is now. My present-day naturist existence is not a learned state of being however. More so, it is a reawakening of my inner child. It's a bare bones acceptance of my body despite its gloriously flawed and natural state. No doubt, it may also be middle-aged madness gone amok. Enough said. In the realm of 'how-to' tutorials then, this is the one that teaches you what you already knew as a tot – that stripped down, almost everything you do is just plain better.Scroll up, click the buy button & get naked today!

The Renaissance Nude

The Renaissance Nude
Author: Thomas Kren
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2018-11-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 160606584X

A gloriously illustrated examination of the origins and development of the nude as an artistic subject in Renaissance Europe Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more than 250 artworks by the greatest masters of the Renaissance. Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, and book illustrations reveal private, sometimes shocking, preoccupations as well as surprising public beliefs—the Age of Humanism from an entirely new perspective. This book presents works by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Martin Schongauer in the north and Donatello, Raphael, and Giorgione in the south; it also introduces names that deserve to be known better. A publication this rich in scholarship could only be produced by a variety of expert scholars; the sixteen contributors are preeminent in their fields and wide-ranging in their knowledge and curiosity. The structure of the volume—essays alternating with shorter texts on individual artworks—permits studies both broad and granular. From the religious to the magical and the poetic to the erotic, encompassing male and female, infancy, youth, and old age, The Renaissance Nude examines in a profound way what it is to be human.

Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed

Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed
Author: Mo Willems
Publisher: Walker
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9781406321371

Wilbur, a naked mole rat who likes to wear clothes, is forced to go before the wise community elder, who surprises the other naked mole rats with his pronouncement.