

Not quite. As recently as last April, authorities of an Olympic-themed exhibition at Doha, in Qatar, decided to cover two nude male statues on loan from Greece behind black screens. When the Greek Minister for Culture expressed his irritation, he was sent packing and the two nudes were, quite unceremoniously, sent back with him. What is about depictions of naked youths that a present-day community might find insensitive to its needs and standards? Religion is only the easy answer to this question and as such it cannot help us fathom the problem. What I do find strange, however, is that Greece and the West at large insist on treating classical statuary as a true expression of their modern self.
Yet wanting to look closely at the human form is nothing new. Nude figures, as old as art itself, appear in the art of most cultures, but are particularly present in the history of Western art. The nude first became a significant feature in Western Art with the Greeks, whose interest in the naked male form was an extension of daily life. In Ancient Greece, men competed in the nude for athletic events and also disrobed for parties called symposia, where they would eat, drink, and socialize in the buff. It is no surprise, then, that art imitated life and that Ancient Greek sculptors associated the naked male form with values such as triumph, glory, and moral excellence. This Kouros, or statue of a nude boy, embodied Greek ideas of moral and physical beauty, nobility, and youth.
It's no coincidence that we still think of ancient Greece as the natural home to the perfect body, alongside Doric columns and democracy. The Greeks weren't just obsessed with athleticism - as founders of the Olympics - they also revered the naked body in a way no previous civilisation had. Greeks didn't actually fight naked in battle, neither did they stroll down Athens High Street in the nude. But the idealised human form, the uniform of righteousness and heroism, was the naked one.
Male nudes are the norm in Greek art , even though historians have stated that ancient Greeks kept their clothes on for the most part. New research suggests that art might have been imitating life more closely than previously thought. Nudity was a costume used by artists to depict various roles of men, ranging from heroicism and status to defeat. Hurwit's newly published research shows that the Greeks did walk around in the buff in some situations. Men strode about free of their togas in the bedroom and at parties called symposia, where they would eat, drink and carouse. Nudity was also common on the athletic fields and at the Olympic games.




MYTHOLOGICAL NUDITY
Fifty years ago a show of male nude art at a small gallery in Long Island, New York provoked the confusion and disdain of the critics. But even today looking at naked men in art — or elsewhere — can their naked bodies be something more than just naked? Through January 2, But often when we think of the heavy meanings placed on bodies, we imagine the female body, which in life and art has a long history of becoming an object of desire and regulation, a symbol and vessel for a host of cultural values. When a man undresses it usually is for some useful reason, she argues, such as an action of changing clothes, of exchange one kind of armor for another, for example. Their nakedness has a necessary purpose, an effect of battle or work. For Bordo, these differences have defined our images of nakedness until quite recently.



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