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Middlebury, VT: Middlebury College Museum of Art, 2015. 111 pages, illustrations (colour); 24 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Naked Truth: Approaches to the Body in Early-Twentieth-Century German-Austrian Art," on view at the Middlebury College Museum of Art from September 11 through December 6, 2015. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "In 1899 Gustav Klimt's painting 'Nuda Veritas' shook up the Austrian public with what many deem to be the painter's most political exploration of the nude female body. Klimt's provocative allegory challenged viewers to consider their own beliefs about the relationship between the nude (female) body and contemporary morality; this "naked truth" was shocking. Transcending accusations of pornography, Klimt's work paved the way for artistic examinations of the nude body as the site through which questions of freedom, desire, beauty, nature, culture, power, and their antonyms could be represented and… Read More