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Hannah Gadsby's Nakedy Nudes Season 1

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“The Nude” is one of the most enduring Casts in western art. In this two part Arts-doc series, comedian Hannah Gadsby speaks art heavyweights such as Ben Quilty, Bill Henson and Julie Rrap, to try to get to the bottom of our ongoing fascination with the nakedy nude.

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Hannah Gadsby's Nakedy Nudes

Documentary•TV-MA•1 Season | 2 Episodes

“The Nude” is one of the most enduring Casts in western art history. It has survived the crumbling of ancient civilizations and the shaming of well-placed medieval fig foliage. Art galleries

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2 Episodes

The Birth of the Ideal

S1 | E1

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29 Mins

Hannah’s tour through the history of the nude in art starts in Ancient Greece, where the male body was considered the only body worthy of representation. Episode One “Birth Of The Ideal” reveals that the glorification of masculine strength, invulnerability and rock hard abs all started back in the toga era. The depiction of the vulnerable, passive or coy female Cast evolved a little later, and Hannah follows the evolution of the nude, right up til the end of the nineteenth century.

The artists of the early Twentieth Century moved away from the traditional stories of History and the Bible and into the bedroom. While many classic foundations of art history were smashed in this period, the Cast and underlying assumptions about the female nude remained unchanged. Hannah celebrates the feminist art revolution that emerged. She looks at the ground-breaking work of Julie Rrap, Sarah Lucas and Louise Bourgeois who took the imaging of the female body into female hands.