Being Nude: The Skin of Images

by Federico Ferrari and Jean-Luc Nancy

Book Overview

What does it mean to be nude? What does the nude do? In a series of constantly surprising reflections, Jean-Luc Nancy and Federico Ferrari encounter the nude as an opportunity for thinking in a way that is stripped bare of all received meanings and preconceived forms. In the course of engagements with twenty-six separate images, the authors show how the nudes produced by painters and photographers expose this bareness of thought and leave us naked...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823256219
• ISBN13: 9780823256211
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"