Saturday, October 13, 2007

There is no such thing as a naked portrait


The inescapable connection ,emotional reaction to it:
Germaine Greer explains why women artists started taking their clothes off for their art.
Martin Hammer of the National Galleries of Scotland has written a book called The Naked Portrait to go with "the first exhibition to focus on naked portraiture as a strand in the art of the last century", which opened in Edinburgh and has just transferred to Compton Verney in Warwickshire.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2189655,00.html

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