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Art
Danto, Arthur C. | January 24, 1994 issue

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The article focuses on nudity on art. The naked body implies the garments that have been taken away, and without which its owner is ashamed-as Adam and Eve were when they invented clothing upon finding themselves naked. Artist John Ruskin's aesthetic appetite brought him into contact with the golden nudes of Tiziano Vecellio (Titian). Ruskin's sexual appetites were not of a kind to bring him into contact with the naked bodies of real women until, at the age of 28, he married Effie Gray and evidently found her sufficiently unaesthetic that he could not bring himself to consummate the marriage.

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NUDITY; ART; RUSKIN, John; ARTISTS; WOMEN; BODY, Human
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