THE NUDE IN ART
American art students, men and women, and a number of women students from other countries signed a protest against the male nud» models employed in the Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts, but they have been defeated by the French students and teachers, who positively decline to permit the draping of the models in bathing trunks. The French students, men and women, but mostly women, signed a counter-petition, in which they say: "We ask to be treated like medical students. .Are bathing drawers placed on the subject in the dissecting room? No. We are studying the human body with equal seriousness from another point of view. We demand the nude male model In the name of art." Tliis argument has won the day, the Council declaring that art students ought to leave false modesty behind when seriously studying the lines of the human form.
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Evening Star, Issue 11663, 23 January 1902, Page 3
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147THE NUDE IN ART Evening Star, Issue 11663, 23 January 1902, Page 3
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