Notes
"My friend Jeffrey, the webmaster at my current office job, says that his goal is for people to be happy when he is there, and equally happy when he is not. Not me. I want to be missed. Like Radiohead sings, I want you to notice when I'm not around. I wish I was special."
I was an nude art model for 10 years, and found the experience very rewarding. For me it was a great way to be surrounded with artists, be a part of an art community, and to find inspiration in what others were doing. For this reason, I was very interested to read about the experience of another nude model.
So far, all Ms. Rooney seems intent on doing is explaining her rationale behind her choice to become an art model, and to convince skeptics that she isn't "dirty" or a "prostitute." 45 pages into this, I find her remarks tiresome. I only hope that she brings depth to her work by opening the narrative to include references to historical works of art and the relationships between artists and their models.
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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 artistsÂ’ 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, Life 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.
Additional information
- Pages: 200
- ISBN: 1557288917
- EAN: 9781557288912
- Dewey: 709.2
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: University of Arkansas Press