Lecture and Book Signing with Bram Dijkstra November 14, 2010

Sunday, November 14, 2010 (1:00 p.m.)

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On the occasion of the release of his anticipated new publication Naked: The Nude in America, Bram Dijkstra will give a public lecture and book signing at Laguna Art Museum. The most thorough and wide-reaching survey of the representation of the nude in American visual culture yet published, Dijkstra’s book explores the history of the subject from its earliest manifestations in the paintings of John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West to the taboo-shredding imagery of late 20th-century artists such as Alice Neel, Robert Mapplethorpe, Eric Fischl, and John Currin

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