The Body: Images of the Nude – Edward Lucie-Smith

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A beautiful copy, hard copy with dust wrapper, clean apart from a small sticky tape mark front page bottom right,otherwise clean tight and close to fine. 90 colour plates ans 12 black and white illustration. The human form – the most instantly recognizable of all visual objects – has lost none of its fascination, its essential mystery, or its many layers of meaning. The body is a visual exploration of the artist’s, and the viewer’s, reactions to the perennial theme of the unclothed figure in western art.