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If there is one genre of art that seems to have played a greater role than any other, it is the nude. For at least 30,000 years, humans have represented the naked form in a variety of ways. From the ideal to the real, the romantic to the surrealist, there have been almost no end of works devoted to the unclothed human body. This series - presented by writer and broadcaster Tim Marlow - will examine those artworks, the societies that produced them and the artists that made them. In this episode, The nude -The modern, Marlow explores examples of the nude in the Modern period: Manet's 'Olympia', Picasso's 'Les Demoiselles D'Avignon' and Bacon's 'Triptych'. Marlow explains how the 20th century changed perspective on the nude in art as emotional truth overcame physical realism. With the advent of photography and film, nothing seemed beyond the artists' interest or capabilities

Originally produced by Seventh Art in 2003

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