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The Nude in Art
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The Nude in Art
Examines approach of Marcel Duchamp & Jean Cockteau re: use of nude as a subject. Their deconstruction of the nude as subject of art.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages) |
6 sources |
2001
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"The influence of Marcel Duchamp and Jean Cocteau on the use of the nude as a subject in art falls outside the usual categories of influence. Duchamp's singular experience with his Nude Descending a Staircase (1912) was instrumental in his decision to turn from any conventional type of art career and become the twentieth-century archetype of the anti-artist. Even though the popular 'scandal' surrounding the painting was of a type that would have launched a more typical artistic career, and his intentions with regard to the Nude were somewhat conventional, Duchamp's subsequent path was devoted to the exposure of art's ways and means. The nude, however, was one subject whose dimensions fascinated him and at the end of his career he created the disturbing multimedia work Given: 1. The Waterfall 2. The Illuminating Gas (1946-66) which, in some..."More papers on The Nude in Art:
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The Nude in Art (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-The-Nude-in-Art/10742
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"The Nude in Art" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-The-Nude-in-Art/10742>
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