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 prac...
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Dec 16, 2011
Gregg
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During Lady Gaga's entertaining Thanksgiving special she joked about her brief gig as a life model for singer and visual artist Tony Bennett. Gaga recounted:
"I walked in and said, 'Well, Tony, here we are,' and I dropped my robe and I got into position. I felt shy and thought, 'It's Tony Bennett. Why am I naked?"
Lady Gaga had come face to face with what Kathleen Rooney describes as the “spine-tingling combination of power and vulnerability, submission and domina More...
"I walked in and said, 'Well, Tony, here we are,' and I dropped my robe and I got into position. I felt shy and thought, 'It's Tony Bennett. Why am I naked?"
Lady Gaga had come face to face with what Kathleen Rooney describes as the “spine-tingling combination of power and vulnerability, submission and domina More...
Apr 16, 2009
Layne
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This book combines just the right amount of memoir/self-reflection and art history. Both the writing and scholarship are very impressive. Nude modeling is so far afield from anything most of us would ever do. What great self confidence it takes to do nude modeling and then to write about it. “…my life as an object,” makes one think of all the ways most people are, at times, the object: during love making (an object of lust as Rooney would say), bosses who treat workers as objects, beautifu
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Sep 18, 2011
Jessica
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This book is like a strange collection of Rooney's poems, strange facts from history she's learned, thoughtful anecdotes, stories about paintings, and other musings. It wasn't what I expected but a nice read anyway.
If you're ever curious about what it's like to be a nude art model, this is a pleasant read that isn't as fluffy as you might a think.
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If you're ever curious about what it's like to be a nude art model, this is a pleasant read that isn't as fluffy as you might a think.
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Apr 14, 2009
Neil
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I saw Kathleen read just prior to JE at a UW bookstore a little while back.
The memoir details her experiences as an art model. I was sold on checking it out by her use of classical references (Pliny, for one)to the life of artists' models.
So far the prose is light, breezy and engaging.
We'll see how it goes.
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Just finished this up after having to put it aside in favor of studying market saturation reports (ugh).
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The memoir details her experiences as an art model. I was sold on checking it out by her use of classical references (Pliny, for one)to the life of artists' models.
So far the prose is light, breezy and engaging.
We'll see how it goes.
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Just finished this up after having to put it aside in favor of studying market saturation reports (ugh).
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Sep 07, 2009
Mitchell
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Kathleen Rooney's Live Nude Girl uses the loose structure of a memoir of her days as an artists' model to explore large issues that wouldn't be immediately apparent to the non-modeling population. The six chapters of the book are actually six essays on various aspects of the nude (and sometimes non-nude) modeling experience. The topics of the first two essays are not unexpected. They are a meditation of 'Nude' vs. 'Naked' and an analysis of the types of relationships possible between the model a
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Mar 19, 2011
Stephan
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"Art is a lie that helps us feel in control. It helps us create an order and a harmony we can only rarely create in our own existence. Art helps us establish a sense that we, and the events of our lives, matter, that they have meaning and weight and beauty."
I think the best thing about Kathleen's biographical meditation on art modeling, is her humanizing investigation of identity and discovery. It's interesting to know Kathleen, to make art and to read this book ( I found t More...
I think the best thing about Kathleen's biographical meditation on art modeling, is her humanizing investigation of identity and discovery. It's interesting to know Kathleen, to make art and to read this book ( I found t More...
Oct 22, 2009
Book
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Ever wonder what your live nude model was thinking while you were staring at her body, sketching away? Rooney tells about art classes from the model's point of view, and you just might be surprised by the thoughts that ran through her mind.
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Sep 13, 2009
Chris
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This book confirmed that I, like Tobias before me, shall remain a never-nude.
Apr 10, 2009
Alan
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I found this to be a very provocative book but not for the reasons that you probably think. Provocative because it forces one to re-evaluate their feelings about self-image, nudity, and sexuality in general.
In any case if you have an opportunity to hear Ms Rooney read don't miss it she is one of the best readers I've ever come across. Perhaps if she ever gives up her writing career she should think about becoming an actress.
In any case if you have an opportunity to hear Ms Rooney read don't miss it she is one of the best readers I've ever come across. Perhaps if she ever gives up her writing career she should think about becoming an actress.
Jul 09, 2009
I heard her read a passage from the book and was inspired to read it. It is an interesting first-person account of being art, as well as dealing with societal opinions on nudity.
Oct 26, 2011
Wroderick
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From the perspective of one who works with models, both in photography and in life drawing I enjoyed the opportunity to see my fields from a different approach.
Jun 13, 2009
Fern
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This book is very interesting, very insightful, very well written, and I know the author but I wouldn't say those things unless I meant them.
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