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The Naked Muse

Kelley Swain

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Description:What is it like to be a life model for artists? How does it feel to inform the creation of enduring images: nude; motionless; an object of scrutiny and inspiration? What do you learn about art, about being looked at and the act of seeing, about your body and yourself? Do you recognise your own image in strangers’ hands?Throughout her twenties, Kelley Swain worked as an artists’ model. The Naked Muse is her elegant, fascinating memoir of this time, meditating on art, travel, and how we accept, inhabit, and understand our own bodies. She describes her first experience disrobing for a class, modelling for international artists over six years, an intensive month being painted in Bruges, and posing as saints for a Sicilian chapel frieze.Swain reveals how it really feels physically, intellectually, and emotionally – in the moment when “it’s my matter that matters, not … what I consider to be ‘me’.” Both a flirtation with submissiveness and a wielding of power, Swain examines the model’s role in art’s alchemy, and tells the forgotten stories of women whose faces still bewitch us from gallery walls.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Naked Muse. To get started finding The Naked Muse, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 160

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Valley Press

Release: 2016

ISBN: 1908853670

Description: What is it like to be a life model for artists? How does it feel to inform the creation of enduring images: nude; motionless; an object of scrutiny and inspiration? What do you learn about art, about being looked at and the act of seeing, about your body and yourself? Do you recognise your own image in strangers’ hands?Throughout her twenties, Kelley Swain worked as an artists’ model. The Naked Muse is her elegant, fascinating memoir of this time, meditating on art, travel, and how we accept, inhabit, and understand our own bodies. She describes her first experience disrobing for a class, modelling for international artists over six years, an intensive month being painted in Bruges, and posing as saints for a Sicilian chapel frieze.Swain reveals how it really feels physically, intellectually, and emotionally – in the moment when “it’s my matter that matters, not … what I consider to be ‘me’.” Both a flirtation with submissiveness and a wielding of power, Swain examines the model’s role in art’s alchemy, and tells the forgotten stories of women whose faces still bewitch us from gallery walls.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Naked Muse. To get started finding The Naked Muse, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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