Exhibits are gathered in sections, each exploring a particular facet of the depiction of
nakedness.
Chaucer's emphasis on Alcyone as the site of
nakedness is a marked shift from his source texts, which include not only the version of the tale from Ovid's Metamorphoses but also contemporary French texts such as Machaut's Le Dit de la Fontaine Amoureuse and Froissart's Paradys d'Amours.
Barrage told The Daily Star that her first thought when told about the exhibition's theme was about concealing
nakedness. "I decorated each in a different way with my own materials," she said.
Isaksson further said that next year they would go for full body
nakedness, "with all the flappy, dangly bits wobbling about".
Under a proposed municipal ban on public
nakedness, which critics dubbed the "Wiener bill," nudity would still be allowed at permitted parades, fairs and festivals, as well as on designated nude beaches.
Alan Rickman, who plays billionaire Lionel Shabandar in the film, was required to take
nakedness to another level and had to strip off completely, much to the amusement of his co-stars.
The biblical story of the Fall makes a long-enduring and highly influential link between sexuality, knowledge, and sin, in which the bodily act of eating, and the bodily state of
nakedness, are employed as emblems of human disobedience and shame.
We are simply not the sort of nation which is happy with public displays of
nakedness. Kate, take note.
"Clothes make the man." Mark Twain's famous maxim is followed by a second, lesser-known remark: "Naked people have little or no influence in society." (1) Comments on
nakedness and clothing and their significance are interspersed throughout Twain's writings, becoming most forceful in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, a text that deliberately, if facetiously, investigates the ability of humans to influence their world.
However, I certainly don't embrace
nakedness. If it could be accomplished, I'd shower fully clothed.
the rounded upper corners of their
nakedness. And when the speeches
It truly is time for the 'green fanatics' to be shown in all their
nakedness and naivety, and although I recognise and support renewable energy such as tidal, hydro and solar, there needs to be a balanced approach.
