Bücher von Richard Leppert

The Nude explores some of the principal ways that paintings of the nude function in the conflicted terrain of culture and society in Europe and America from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries, as set against questions about human sexuality that emerge around differences of class, gender, age, and race.

An examination of the place and practice of musical life in eighteenth-century England among the upper classes.

Compellingly written and extensively illustrated, this text is ideal for courses in the history and appreciation of Western art as well as cultural studies.