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-[[Image:Olympia (1863) by Édouard Manet.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Olympia (painting)|Olympia]]'' by [[Édouard Manet]], painted in [[1863]], depicting a [[courtesan]] [[gaze|gazing]] at her viewer.]] 
-[[Image:Richard Dadd - Come unto These Yellow Sands.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Come unto These Yellow Sands'' ([[1842]]) by [[Richard Dadd]]. Images of nude and semi-nude [[fairies]] dancing in rings became popular during the Victorian era.]] 
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-:"The English language, with its elaborate generosity, distinguishes between the naked and the nude. To be naked is to be deprived of our clothes, and the word implies some of the embarrassment most of us feel in that condition. The word "nude," on the other hand, carries, in educated usage, no uncomfortable overtone. The vague image it projects into the mind is not of a huddled and defenseless body, but of a balanced, prosperous, and confident body: the body re-formed. In fact, the word was forced into our vocabulary by critics of the early eighteenth century to persuade the artless islanders [of the UK] that, in countries where painting and sculpture were practiced and valued as they should be, the naked human body was the central subject of art."--[[Kenneth Clark]] in ''[[The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form]]''+'''Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron Clark''', [[Order of Merit (Commonwealth)|OM]], [[Companion of Honour|CH]], [[Order of the Bath|KCB]], [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] ([[July 13]], [[1903]] – [[May 21]], [[1983]]) was an [[England|English]] author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the most famous [[Art history|art historians]] of his generation. In 1969, he was catapulted to international fame as the writer, producer and presenter of the BBC Television series, ''[[Civilisation: A Personal View]]''.
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-'''Nudity''' or '''nakedness''' is the state of wearing no [[clothing]]. It is sometimes used to refer to wearing significantly less clothing than expected by the conventions of a particular [[culture]] and situation, and in particular exposing the bare [[skin]] of [[intimate part]]s and has analogous uses.+
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-*[[Nudity in art]]+
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Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron Clark, OM, CH, KCB, FBA (July 13, 1903May 21, 1983) was an English author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the most famous art historians of his generation. In 1969, he was catapulted to international fame as the writer, producer and presenter of the BBC Television series, Civilisation: A Personal View.



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