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The Nude Male: 21st Century Visions | 
 enlarge | Author: David Leddick
Publisher: Universe
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 76908
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0789317567
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
EAN: 9780789317568
ASIN: 0789317567
Publication Date: September 23, 2008
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Product Description
David Leddick, the popular and acclaimed author of 2001’s Male Nude Now, brings us the latest and most current survey of the male nude form, as seen through the eyes of today’s most important and influential artists who recognize the inherent physical and emotional beauty of the subject. This collection showcases such prominent photographers and illustrators as David Hockney, Sam Taylor-Wood, Clive Barker, Mark Beard, Tom Bianchi, Reed Masengill, Nan Goldin, Bruce La Bruce and Duane Michals, presenting images ranging from the erotic, to fantastic, romantic, dangerous, and funny. The Nude Male features the work of more than 120 established and emerging visual artists, making this collection nothing less than the premier catalog of the genre.
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 The Nude Male book November 29, 2008
Great variety of male nudes by painters as well as photographers. There are a ton of books of male nudes in photographs but too few of painters who work with the male body.
David Bolger, for example, is a very interesting painter and his beautiful painting "The Bath" is here.
David Leddick is an amazingly versatile and interesting creator in many, many media.
Beautiful Book November 9, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is very nicely designed and has many photographers featured. It also contains paintings from very important artists. It's great to see the way every artist interprets the male nude.
 The Nude Review November 1, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased this book after seeing David Leddick's "The Male Nude". The Male Nude portrayed male nude photography throughout the history of photography. This new book "The Nude Male: 21st Century Visions" observes artists who are working with the Nude Male in this contemporary world of art. The photographs are all at a high quality, many large prints.
The descriptions of the artists who are working with the nude male are very brief. I would like to have seen more information on the artists to do further research. After seeing this book I don't know if I would consider David Leddick a critic or simply a collector of these photographic compositions. There is a small mix of paintings and drawings of the nude male, but mostly these images are photographs. The majority is of white nude males, a small amount of African Americans, one elderly, one overweight, and one handicap nude male.
I think that the interesting aspect of this book compared to some of Leddick's other works is the increase in homo-eroticism and how fashion has influenced the way the male nude is portrayed. (Just some of my own observations).
I gave it 4 starts for its high quality and the large amount of artists that were included in this book, but I would have liked to have more information to accompany the artist's work and/or intentions of their art.
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