The Naked and the Nude Themes

If fine art is one end of the spectrum for a body without clothes, another might be pornography. That's a pretty wide spectrum, huh? And let's face it, getting too excited about art is usually cons...

What really is beautiful? Is it the airbrushed lady that you see on a magazine cover? The crazily-ripped guy who poses in a Speedo? Or the regular person who just happens to have a body that's…a...

This theme's a sneaky one, since it doesn't seem to enter into "The Naked and the Nude" until the very, very end. But you could think of it as the dramatic twist that makes the whole poem click int...

What's so artistic about the nude? Well, that's the million-dollar question. After all, we've all got bodies, right? And we've all seen naked bodies. So why are some representations of naked bodies...