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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"...two gorgeous new coffee table books out from Universe Publishing...these books are so freaking hot..." ~Instinct Magazine on Nude Male and Divas!
"Iit's the latest and most current survey of the male nude form, as seen through the eyes of today's most important and influential artists." ~The Meadville Tribune
"Iit's the latest and most current survey of the male nude form, as seen through the eyes of today's most important and influential artists." ~The Meadville Tribune
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The male form has made strides to reclaim its place in modern society, along side its female counterpart, as a thing of beauty, admiration, and desire. Yet even as we begin a new century, controversy, fear, and discomfort keep it from realizing its full potential as a popularly accepted object d'art. In The Nude Male, David Leddick has assembled 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. The Nude Male features the work of more than 120 established and emerging photographers and illustrators. This collection of more than 250 images, ranging from erotic to funny, from thought-provoking to mind-bending, from breathtaking to breathless. is nothing less than the premiere catalogue of the genre.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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By Michael Jones (Stroudsburg, Pa United States) - See all my reviews
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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.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Disappointing,
By Bryce David (Cyberspace) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Nude Male: 21st Century Visions (Paperback)
The Nude Male: 21st Century Visions by David Leddick is a disappointing art book (or book on art?). It features over 140 artists spread out within its 250 pages. Do the math: the book basically showcases those 140+ artists with tiny one paragraph descriptions about the artists often with just one accompanying artwork in a book that's 250 pages big. This means it mostly showcases one artist with one piece of artwork on one page! The effect is needlessly cluttered, claustrophobic and in the end meaningless vis a vis who the artist is and what encompasses their work because a single photo can hardly do justice to an artist's entire work or vision. In some cases there are two artists per page, with artwork spread over on two pages. This aspect is very disappointing. Had I had the choice in peaking into the book before purchasing it I wouldn't have bought it.
What's also disappointing is that it says "21st Century Visions" but most of the art (if I can call it art) looks positively passé. This book would have probably been avant garde in the 1970s but today most of it looks quaint and dated, or just standard "titillating" stuff you see everywhere on the internet. The photo on page 183 sums up the quality of the "art" found in this book: model staring boringly at photographer in a contrived pose. Only a few artists works live up to the word art or to the title "21st Century Visions". One of the artist is Andreas Bitesnich who's work is, unsurprisingly, featured on the cover, which made me purchase this book. We get to see three photos by Bitesnich, and two of them transcend the standard male nude to become art. Another interesting work is on page 230-31 by Henning Von Berg who the author describes as "handsome and strong himself." Seriously. There are a few other interesting photos here and there but the majority of the art is uninspired, boring or just plain insipid.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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As a professional artist and occasional photographer of male nudes, I had hoped for a much more in-depth and useful book examining what it means to explore the male nude in art. This is, for all intents and purposes, a series of ads for the various artists in the book, with hyperbolic text and email contact information.
While there is an interesting mix of emerging and super-famous, male and female, and straight and Gay artists, there is a remarkable lack of ethnic diversity, sticking mostly (though not exclusively) with people of European descent as creators and subjects. I am further disappointed that there a misspellings and typographic errors throughout. Combined with the heavy self-promotional quality of the writing and this ends up feeling like a vanity publication, not a serious text.
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