“In the 1950s, art historian Kenneth Clark distinguished between the terms ‘nude’ and ‘naked’. For him, ‘nakedness’ implies discomfort and embarrassment. Nudity meant not ‘a huddled and defenceless body, but … a balanced, prosperous and confident body: the body re-formed’. Twenty years later, another art historian, John Berger, offered a different definition: ‘nakedness’ was honest, whereas ‘nudity’ turned the human being into an object of display. He declared that ‘to be naked is to be oneself…. to be naked is to be without disguise’.”How do you define the terms ‘nude’ and ‘naked’?
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