NUDE- Interpretations of the body

SYLLABUS

The students study the human body through sketching and drawing a naked model, who poses. They focus their attention on subjects such as, proportions, structure, anatomy, expressive movement, plasticity and mass.

At the same time they investigate the new possibilities of  composition by overlapping figure and space, while searching the qualities of line and tone with different materials.

From the start of the semester, the students maintain a sketchbook in their own space and enrich it daily, as a diary of visually creative processes. There, they feed in material from their research about a subject they have chosen from a group of given subjects about the body.

For example: “The suffering body”, “Surrealism and the body”, “The body in clothes”, “Consumerism and the body”.

In the diary they also include their own original thinking, hand written texts, photographs they have taken, sketches, all documented work related to the subject. The aesthetic part of each page  is an issue, too. The diary is monitored every week by the teacher, who discusses, observes, corrects.

In this way, the students can mentally move from the concept of the nude as nudity, to the concept of the body as metaphor, a reflection to the social body with its anthropological, phycological, philosophical extensions.

ATTACHED BIBLIOGRAPHY

International sources:

• Bendall, Sarah – Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the body and women in early modern England – Bloomsbury Visual Arts – 2021 ISBN  97813550164109
• Gonzalez-Crussi, Frank – The Body Fantastic – The MIT Press – 2021 ISBN 9780262045889
• Kelway, John James – The Human Body’s Cabinet of Etymological Curiosities ISBN  9782957484713
• Desmond, Morris – Postures:Body Language in Art – Thames & Hudson 2019 ISBN 9780500022610
• Herschdorfer, Nathalie – Body: The Photography Book – Thames & Hudson 2019 ISBN  9780500021583
• Wolfe Art – Human Canvas – Earth Aware Editions – 2019 ISBN  9781683838197
• Fontenberry, Diane and Morrill, Rebecca – Body of Art – Phaidon  2015ISBN  9780714869667
• Clark, Anna – Desire A History of European Sexuality – Routledge  2019 ISBN  9780815352525

 Greek sources:

• Συλλογικό έργο – Μεταμοντέρνο Σώμα, οι Αναπαραστάσεις του Σώματος – Γαβριηλίδης 2016  ISBN  9789605764951
• Ρηγοπούλου, Πέπη – Το Σώμα, Τέχνη και Ιατρική – Σιδέρης Ι. 2016 ISBN  9789600806892
• Μπενάκη, Άννα, και Τσιούρης, Γεώργιος – Σχέδιο-Σώμα, Ψθχοδυναμική Ανθρωπίνου Σώματος και Σημειολογία Μορφών – ΙΩΝ 2015 ISBN 9789605081508
• Shubin, Neil – Το Ψάρι Μέσα Μας – Κάτοπτρο 2009 ISBN 9789606717383
• Rubin, Suleiman, Susan – Το Γυναικείο Σώμα στον Δυτικό Πολιτισμό – Σαββάλας 2008 ISBN  9789604232604
• Ρηγάτος, Γεράσιμος – Γυάλινος Πύργος, Τρίχινος Φράχτης. Τι Είναι? – Βήτα 2003 ISBN  9789608071612
• Ρηγοπούλου, Πέπη – Το Σώμα Ικεσία και Απειλή – Πλέθρον 2003 ISBN  9789603481294
• Stewart, Andrew – Τέχνη Επιθυμία και Σώμα στην Αρχαία Ελλάδα – Αλεξάνδρεια 2003  ISBN  9602212497

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