Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object

Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object is a lively meditation on the profession of art modeling as it has been practiced in history and as it is practiced today. Kathleen Rooney draws on her own experiences working as an artist's model, as well as the famous, notorious, and mysterious artists and models through the ages. Through a combination of personal perspective, historical anecdote, and witty prose, Live Nude Girl reveals that both the appeal of posing nude for artists and the appeal of drawing the naked figure lie in our deeply human responses to beauty, sex, love, and death.

Author: Kathleen Rooney
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 07/01/2010
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.84h x 6.22w x 0.54d
ISBN13: 9781557289490
ISBN10: 1557289492
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Art | Popular Culture
- Art | Subjects & Themes | Human Figure

About the Author
Kathleen Rooney is the author of Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America, as well as the poetry collections Oneiromance (An Epithalamion), Something Really Wonderful, and That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness, the latter two written collaboratively with Elisa Gabbert. Her essay "Live Nude Girl" was selected for Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers.