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Title: Paul Cadmus : The Male Nude by Justin Spring ISBN: 0-7893-0589-5 Publisher: Universe Books Pub. Date: 09 November, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Lambda Literary Award Finalist!
Comment: Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude was just named a Lambda Literary Award Finalist in the Visual Arts Category. Congratulations to author Justin Spring! The winners will be announced on May 29th, 2003 in Los Angeles.
Rating: 5
Summary: An artist in step with a better time
Comment: 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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Title: Thomas Eakins : The Absolute Male by John Esten ISBN: 0789306786 Publisher: Universe Books Pub. Date: 05 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: John Singer Sargent : The Male Nudes by John Esten, Donna Hassler ISBN: 0789302616 Publisher: Universe Books Pub. Date: 15 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Foro Italico by George Mott, Geroge Mott, Giorgio Armani, Michelangelo Sabatino ISBN: 157687169X Publisher: powerHouse Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: A Hidden Love: Art and Homosexuality by Dominique Fernandez ISBN: 3791327046 Publisher: Prestel USA Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Adam: The Male Figure in Art by Edward Lucie-Smith ISBN: 0847821250 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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