Nudity
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| [[Image:Richard Dadd - Come unto These Yellow Sands.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Come unto These Yellow Sands'' ([[1842]]) by [[Richard Dadd]]. Images of nude and semi-nude [[fairies]] dancing in rings became popular during the Victorian era.]] | [[Image:Richard Dadd - Come unto These Yellow Sands.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Come unto These Yellow Sands'' ([[1842]]) by [[Richard Dadd]]. Images of nude and semi-nude [[fairies]] dancing in rings became popular during the Victorian era.]] | ||
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| - | :"The English language, with its elaborate generosity, distinguishes between the naked and the nude. To be naked is to be deprived of our clothes, and the word implies some of the embarrassment most of us feel in that condition. The word "nude," on the other hand, carries, in educated usage, no uncomfortable overtone. The vague image it projects into the mind is not of a huddled and defenseless body, but of a balanced, prosperous, and confident body: the body re-formed. In fact, the word was forced into our vocabulary by critics of the early eighteenth century to persuade the artless islanders [of the UK] that, in countries where painting and sculpture were practiced and valued as they should be, the naked human body was the central subject of art."--[[Kenneth Clark]] in ''[[The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form]]'' | + | :"The English language, with its elaborate generosity, distinguishes between the [[naked]] and the [[nude]]. To be naked is to be deprived of our clothes, and the word implies some of the embarrassment most of us feel in that condition. The word "nude," on the other hand, carries, in educated usage, no uncomfortable overtone. The vague image it projects into the mind is not of a huddled and defenseless body, but of a balanced, prosperous, and confident body: the body re-formed. In fact, the word was forced into our vocabulary by critics of the early eighteenth century to persuade the artless islanders [of the UK] that, in countries where painting and sculpture were practiced and valued as they should be, the naked human body was the central subject of art."--[[Kenneth Clark]] in ''[[The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form]]'' |
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Image:Richard Dadd - Come unto These Yellow Sands.jpg
Come unto These Yellow Sands (1842) by Richard Dadd. Images of nude and semi-nude fairies dancing in rings became popular during the Victorian era.
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- "The English language, with its elaborate generosity, distinguishes between the naked and the nude. To be naked is to be deprived of our clothes, and the word implies some of the embarrassment most of us feel in that condition. The word "nude," on the other hand, carries, in educated usage, no uncomfortable overtone. The vague image it projects into the mind is not of a huddled and defenseless body, but of a balanced, prosperous, and confident body: the body re-formed. In fact, the word was forced into our vocabulary by critics of the early eighteenth century to persuade the artless islanders [of the UK] that, in countries where painting and sculpture were practiced and valued as they should be, the naked human body was the central subject of art."--Kenneth Clark in The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form
Nudity or nakedness is the state of wearing no clothing. It is sometimes used to refer to wearing significantly less clothing than expected by the conventions of a particular culture and situation, and in particular exposing the bare skin of intimate parts and has analogous uses.
Nude
See also
- Nude photography
- Nude scene
- Nudie cutie
- Nudie film
- Nudism
- Nudist film
- Female nudity
- Nudity in art
- Nudity in film
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