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Concept

Nudity

Images

  • Half-clothed Tilottama flying in the sky playing with a red ball. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • A naked man lies back with a condom on his erect penis; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Apoio Fundação Mac Arthur. Colour lithograph by 4 Mãos, 1993.
  • A patient exposes her breasts to a physician and asks if a physician is not a little like a confessor: the doctor exclaims that he hopes she does not show herself like that to her confessor. Process print afterJ-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A giant claw pierces the breast of a sleeping naked woman, another naked woman swoops down and stabs the claw with a knife; representing the surgical treatment of breast cancer. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • A woman representing Nature gives a baby to a mother; representing man's vulnerable and naked birth. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    A negative image in black and blue of a naked man kissing a woman as he places one hand on her breast, the other on her groin; with the statement in German 'Be so kind!'; one of 9 safe-sex advertisements for the AIDS-Hilfe Wien. Colour lithograph by Matthias Hermann, ca. 1995.

    Herrmann, Matthias, 1963- | Date: [1995?] | Reference: 675197i
    • Books

    Nudité et pudeur : le mythe du processus de civilisation / Hans Peter Duerr ; traduit de l'allemand par Véronique Bodin avec la participation de Jacqueline Pincemin.

    Duerr, Hans Peter. | Date: [1998], ©1998
    • Archives and manuscripts

    "The weak one & the strong one"

    Bishop, Mary (Mary Cecil Hamilton), 1914-1990 | Date: February 1969 | Reference: 2897057i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Archives and manuscripts

    "Sex. Indoors at last"

    Meredith, David Thomas, active approximately 1975-1989 | Date: 23 December 1975 | Reference: 3010610i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A naked man leaning back on his arms with his eyes closed as another naked man leans into him while nestling his head in his neck; with the message in German: 'Protection from love. Let us give AIDS no chance'; an advertisement for safe sex by the Österreichische AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by Ogilvy & Mather Medical and Peter Baumann of Hollywood Ges. m.b.H.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 675282i
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