Description: 26 reflections on nude images from the history of Western art including Rembrandt, Goya, David Hockney and Nan Golden. The authors, both philosophers, develop an approach to the nude that involves shedding preconceived concepts and exposing ourselves to the fleeting sense that passes over the surface of the nude's skin and over the surface of the image.
Brief description: Federico Ferrari teaches Contemporary Philosophy and Art Theory at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. His most recent books are: Il re è nudo. Aristocrazia e anarchia dell'arte (2011), L'insieme vuoto: Per una pragmatica dell'immagine (2011), and L'insieme vuoto: Per una pragmatica dell'immagine (2013).
Review Quotes: At times a hard philosophical road to slog, 'Being Nude' gives you a multidimensional, multimedia, multigenerational musing on the nude that may not lay all the facts perfectly bare, but will leave you looking at and thinking about the nude in a different way than ever before.-- "--Big Think"