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	ART FOLLOWS NATURE: A WORLDWIDE HISTORY OF THE NUDE by Paul LeValley
	Introduction 1. Hail and Farewell 2. Prehistoric Times: The First 99.9% of Human Existence
	Part I: Other Cultures and Their Effect on Us
	Egypt 3. Self-Confidence in Middle-Kingdom Egypt 4. Status, Gender, and the Body in Later Egypt
	India 5. The Gymnosophists 6. Gymnosophy in Europe and the Middle East
	. 7. The Jains: Keeping Your Mind Clear by Keeping Your Body Free 8. Ajivikas and Buddhists
	9. Physical and Spiritual Love 10. Hindu Gods in Their Natural Manifestations
	11. How Do You Dress for a Muslim Invasion? Or, The End of Bare-Breastedness in India China-Japan 12. China, Japan, and the Tradition That Barely Was
	Classical 13. Interrupted Beginnings: Crete and the Etruscans 14. Myth, Man, and Nature
	15. The Riddle of the Sphinx 16. Sow Naked, Plow Naked, Reap Naked	.
	17. The Real Olympics: Education for Godlike Display 18. Greek Athletics and the Arts
	19. Athletics and Ascetics: Parallel Nude Traditions of Greece and India 20. Daughters of Aphrodite
	21. How Cupid Shrank and Grew and Shrank Again 22. Another Look at Cupid
	23. What Happens When Caesar Becomes a God? Religion and Nudity in Ancient Rome Middle East 24. The Illustrated Bible, Part I
	25. The Illustrated Bible, Part II 26. How Early Christians Dealt With the Naked Christ
	27. Women of Late Antiquity 28. The Middle-Eastern Nude
	29. East of the Imagination American Indians 30. The Amazon: Where People Unlearned Clothing
	31. Ancient Mexican Heritage 32. The Mexican Muralistas
	33. American Indian (lack of) Costume 34. The Noble Savage
	Africa 35. Africa: The Continuing Tradition 36. The Nude as Anti-Slavery Symbol
	Pacific Islands 37. Paradise Unrecognized

	Part II: The Western Cultural Tradition
	Medieval 38. Descendants of Lady Godiva 39. The Medieval Analysis of Nudity
	40. The Eternal Nude Renaissance 41. The Chicken Keeper's Son: Trend Setter for the Early Renaissance
	42. Because It Is Honest: The Renaissance Nude 43. David: Young Representative of Many Ages
	44. Point of View Baroque 45. The Baroque Agony
	46. Running Wild—Diana to Mowgli 47. Garden-Variety Sculptures
	Enlightenment 48. Let Us Now Praise Distinguished Men 49. Nudes in All Directions
	50. The Academic Tradition 51. A Modest History of the Fig Leaf
	52. The Difference Between Night and Day Nineteenth Century 53. The Many French Revolutions
	54. Discovery of the Boy in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture 55. The Neapolitan Fisherboy Tradition
	56. All-American Boyhood 57. The Swimming Hole: From Camera to Canvas
	58. The Art of Swimming Twentieth Century 59. Industrial-Strength Nudes
	60. Figure Sculpture—American Women to the Rescue 61. From Girl to Woman
	62. To Shock the Bourgeoisie 63. Fidus, the First Nudist Artist
	64. Nazis and Nudes 65. By Way of Illustration: A Century of Seaside Innocence
	66. The Art of Choice Overviews 67. Free as a Bird
	68. Art Through the Millennia, or Nudes Forever
	Appendices 1. Original Publication History 2. Reading Recommendations 3. Travel Guide to the Artworks Index

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