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Rachel Barnes
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“Western art is unusual in its preoccupation with the naked body. With the exception of India the nude is of little importance in Eastern cultures, but in the West the human body has been the essential building block of art. ... In the Christian era, however, body and soul came to be seen almost as opposites, and nakedness was more often a sign of shame and humiliation — the nude becomes the naked.”