- Gebundene Ausgabe: 160 Seiten
- Verlag: Universe; Auflage: illustrated edition (9. November 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0789305895
- ISBN-13: 978-0789305893
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 27,4 x 2,5 x 28,7 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 829.200 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Abstraction gets the most ink whenever modern art is the subject, but surely another vital modernist development was the revival of the male nude. Paul Cadmus (1904-99), saw men's bodies erotically, for he was an uncloseted, though very private, homosexual. Still, his male nudes, mostly in his drawings, aren't pornographic. In them eroticism appears as affection and delight--attitudes informed by Cadmus' lifelong admiration for the sculptural nudes of Renaissance art, whose sinuous postures and musculature he emulated. Spring's marvelously fluent, biographically organized discussion of Cadmus' nude drawings argues that they are his best work. Given the satire and didacticism of Cadmus' better-known, painstakingly executed, brilliantly colorful egg-tempera paintings, which one associate characterized as "statements," and also the technical brio yet loving delicacy of texture of the drawings, Spring carries the day on this point. Surely Cadmus' highly traditional nudes are also modern because of their eroticism and, perhaps, timelessness, because of their tenderness and wonder. Ray Olson
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Presents a collection of the artist's male nude drawings.
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An artist in step with a better time
2. Januar 2003
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This book is a treasure for any Cadmus fan. While Lincoln Kirstein's 1992 monograph includes reproductions of all of Cadmus's major paintings, it only has a dozen or so of his figurative drawings. Justin Spring's book more than makes up for this lack (it has 67 color plates). The fact that he does so by taking on the seemingly narrow focus of male nudes is truly appropriate. While the paintings are often highly active, heavily detailed social satires with not-so-subtle homoerotic elements, the drawings are calmer, context-free, more admiring meditations on the male form. They are clearly the work of an attentive observer and a disciplined draughtsman. When the art world was going ga-ga over abstract expressionism and slap-dash gestural drawing, Cadmus was painstakingly working in virtual isolation. And though a number of sketches are included in this volume, it is the finished drawing that most interested Cadmus. Reginald Marsh, Jared French, Pierro dela Francesca, Michaelangelo, Signorelli, and Ingres were his dominent influences. Along with ballet photographer George Platt Lynes. And from writer E.M. Forster he acquired a philosophic outlook that would guide him both as an artist and as a man: "tolerance, good temper and sympathy--they are what matter...if the human race is not to collapse."
Spring's five essays (Introduction, Beginnings, Development, Maturity, Conclusion) provide everything you need to know to fully appreciate the plates. He addresses Cadmus's homosexuality directly and without sensation and discusses Cadmus's well-reasoned reluctance to be associated with more blatantly sexual gay art (including his refusal to have one of his works reproduced in a biography of Tom of Finland, an admirer of Cadmus). Spring also identifies the models for many of the drawings; this is significant because Cadmus considered his drawings to be a collaboration between himself and his models. Cadmus's life partner Jon Anderson was his frequent subject from the late 60s until the artist's death, and it is fascinating to see how Anderson's body changed over time; the model clearly never lost his sense of comfort and ease modeling nude.
Not revisionist history, just a long overdue update on a neglected but significant American artist of the 20th century. Universe Publishing (a division of Rizzoli International Publications) is to be commended on the design and quality of this book.
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Beautiful and sensual
9. September 2005
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I only discovered about Paul Cadmus a little bit ago, but was simply blown away by his style and art. This book is a wonderful introduction to the life and art of one of the twentieth century's quietest artists who remained active to the very end of his long life, and managed to cross both gender and sexual barriers to breathe new life into what most of us would regard as a dry subject -- namely, art. Here Cadmus' love for, and vigor, show through in more than seventy drawings, many of them of his life partner and lover, Jon Anderson. Techinically brilliant, they are also sensitive without being overtly erotic -- enough so that I wouldn't mind hanging any of the artist's prints in my own home. Both lovers of art and artists will like this one, the reproductions are crisp enough that Cadmus' style of crosshatching and use of charcoal and chalk will both inspire and bring enjoyment. Recommended.
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Incredible collection of work
5. Januar 2007
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Excellent resource for figure drawing, beautiful images, full page in most cases, wonderful information on the artist Cadmus, would recommend to anyone interested in drawing, figure drawing, or art in general!
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