ART
FOLLOWS NATURE:
A WORLDWIDE HISTORY OF THE NUDE by Paul LeValley |
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Introduction
1. Hail and Farewell
2. Prehistoric Times: The
First 99.9% of Human Existence
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Part
I: Other
Cultures and Their Effect on Us
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Egypt
3. Self-Confidence in Middle-Kingdom Egypt
4. Status, Gender, and the
Body in Later Egypt
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India
5. The Gymnosophists
6. Gymnosophy in Europe and
the Middle East
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. 7. The Jains: Keeping Your Mind Clear by Keeping Your Body Free
8. Ajivikas and Buddhists
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9.
Physical and Spiritual Love
10. Hindu Gods in Their
Natural Manifestations
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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
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Classical 13. Interrupted Beginnings: Crete and the Etruscans
14. Myth, Man, and Nature
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The Riddle of the Sphinx
16. Sow Naked, Plow Naked,
Reap Naked
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17.
The Real Olympics: Education for Godlike Display
18. Greek Athletics and the
Arts
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19.
Athletics and Ascetics: Parallel Nude Traditions of Greece and India
20. Daughters of Aphrodite
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21.
How Cupid Shrank and Grew and Shrank Again 22.
Another Look at
Cupid
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23.
What Happens When Caesar Becomes a God? Religion and Nudity
in
Ancient Rome Middle
East
24. The Illustrated Bible,
Part I
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25. The Illustrated Bible, Part II
26. How Early Christians Dealt
With the Naked
Christ
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27.
Women of Late Antiquity
28. The Middle-Eastern Nude
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29.
East of the Imagination American
Indians
30. The Amazon: Where People
Unlearned Clothing
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31. Ancient Mexican Heritage
32. The Mexican Muralistas
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33.
American Indian (lack of) Costume
34. The Noble Savage
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Africa
35. Africa: The Continuing Tradition
36. The Nude as Anti-Slavery
Symbol
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Pacific
Islands
37. Paradise Unrecognized |
Part
II: The Western
Cultural Tradition
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Medieval
38. Descendants of Lady Godiva
39. The Medieval Analysis of
Nudity
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40.
The Eternal Nude Renaissance
41.
The Chicken
Keeper's Son: Trend Setter for the Early Renaissance
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42. Because It Is Honest: The Renaissance Nude
43. David: Young
Representative of Many Ages
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44.
Point of View Baroque
45. The Baroque Agony
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46.
Running Wild—Diana to Mowgli
47. Garden-Variety Sculptures
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Enlightenment
48. Let Us Now Praise Distinguished Men
49. Nudes in All Directions
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50.
The Academic Tradition
51. A Modest History of the
Fig Leaf
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52.
The Difference Between Night and Day Nineteenth
Century
53.
The Many French
Revolutions
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54. Discovery of the Boy in Nineteenth-Century Sculpture
55. The Neapolitan Fisherboy
Tradition
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56.
All-American Boyhood
57. The Swimming Hole: From
Camera to Canvas
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58.
The Art of Swimming Twentieth
Century
59. Industrial-Strength Nudes
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60. Figure Sculpture—American Women to the Rescue
61. From Girl to Woman
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62.
To Shock the Bourgeoisie
63. Fidus, the First Nudist
Artist
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64.
Nazis and Nudes
65. By Way of Illustration: A
Century of
Seaside Innocence
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66.
The Art of Choice Overviews
67. Free as a Bird
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68.
Art Through the Millennia, or Nudes Forever |
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Appendices 1. Original Publication History 2. Reading Recommendations 3. Travel Guide to the Artworks Index |