by Edward Lucie-Smith, François de Louville · Phaidon · tapa dura · ISBN 9780714823829
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«The Male Nude: A Modern View» is the catalogue of the modern art exhibition organised by François de Louville and edited by Edward Lucie-Smith, published by Phaidon in hardback (170 pages, in English).
This volume documents an exhibition held in London between 1983 and 1984 at the Homeworks space on Pimlico Road, devoted to the representation of the male nude in twentieth-century modern art. It includes 156 illustrations with works by David Hockney, Sandra Fisher, Elisabeth Frink and other contemporary artists, along with introductions and brief biographies of the participants.
The catalogue corresponds to the exhibition that opened on 15 November 1983 at Homeworks, London, and was published in 1985.
Aimed at art history readers and those interested in the representation of the male body in twentieth-century art.
John Edward McKenzie Lucie-Smith, known as Edward Lucie-Smith, is a Jamaican-born English writer, poet, art critic, curator and broadcaster. He has been highly prolific in these fields, writing or editing over a hundred books, his subjects gradually shifting around the late 1960s from mostly literature to mostly art.
