{"product_id":"live-nude-girl-my-life-as-an-object-paperback","title":"Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathleen Rooney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLive Nude Girl: My Life as an Object\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eLive Nude Girl\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLive 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathleen Rooney is the author of \u003ci\u003eReading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eOneiromance (An Epithalamion)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSomething Really Wonderful\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThat Tiny Insane Voluptuousness\u003c\/i\u003e, the latter two written collaboratively with Elisa Gabbert. Her essay \"Live Nude Girl\" was selected for Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 183\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 8.84 x 6.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42730499932223,"sku":"9781557289490","price":20.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/2b9ac8d6673bbc360e039a26737c74aa.webp?v=1765126064","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/live-nude-girl-my-life-as-an-object-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}