false 3434157 1 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 artists’ 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. 3475156 26 2 2009 Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object total:29|5:20|4:5|3:2|2:2|1:0| 29 130 102 11 5 0 false false Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 14:18:42 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 14:21:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Mar 20 16:47:59 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 12:38:25 -0700 2009
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.

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