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...Hanoi in 1925 by a classmate of Henri Matisse. There, the idiom was Western classical - with a dash of impressionism thrown in for modern élan. Even today, Vietnamese students at the Hanoi Fine Arts University, as the French-founded school is now known, spend an entire year sketching nude models, a rigorous exercise that has been abandoned at many Western art institutes. In all three countries, the emphasis on education means that even the most experimental artists tend to boast degrees from top art universities. "I don't think they taught me anything," says Akbar Padamsee, a leading Indian...
...family is not actually perverted, but highly tuned to the natural state of humanity. A 1999 study cited on sleepnaked.org found that 38 out of 45 participants fell asleep faster, slept better and woke more energized when they were in the buff. The Olympics used to be a nude event. Traditional art lauds the naked body as the height of beauty and purity. Our forbearers caught on too—a naked disco, Starkers!, is held monthly in London; many indigenous Brazilian tribes wear next to no clothes on a daily basis; Germany plays host to various naked cycling competitions...
...most self-conscious and multi-layered, marketing a woman's fashion line in an effort to expose the problem of anorexia in fashion marketing. Toscani says people react to it because many suffer from a kind of "social anorexia" of deprivation and disappointment amidst the abundance of modernity. The nude image of the emaciated 26-year-old French actress in poses we are used to seeing struck by fashion models is indeed relentless in its rawness. Toscani says. "I always try to strip away and strip away until I arrive at what is essential...
...monsters, indicating the dress to be a traditional thependytes—a garment appropriate for a goddess. The exhibit also features three models, placed side by side, of “Torso of a Warrior” where the statue from the Athenian Acropolis first appears to be nude and carved out of white stone. However, in the second and third replica of the sculpture, color reveals a lower edge of a cuirass and patterns of interlocking leaves, indicating that the figure is in fact dressed for battle. Although color surrounds us, injecting color in the world of ancient Greek...
...words: "No Anorexia." Caro, now 27, says she has suffered from the disorder since she was a teenager. In a statement on its website, Nolita defended the ad, which has appeared on giant billboards and leading newspapers in Italy. "Toscani literally stripped his subject, to show everyone through this nude body the reality of this illness, which in the majority of cases is caused by stereotypes caused by the fashion world." Toscani, who says he learned about eating disorders while working in the fashion industry, dismissed suggestions made by an anti-anorexia group in Italy that girls would look...