Is the male body really so dull? Last week Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones published his latest in a series of listicles plundering art history for page-views, “The top 10 male nudes in art.” Aside from a couple of inspired picks—a Wolfgang Tillmans photo, Donatello’s David—it’s all very safe and predictable. Here, then, are artnet News’s 10 better male nudes.
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Ilse Haider, Mr. Big (2013).
Courtesy the Leopold Museum, Vienna.
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The centerpiece of the Leopold Museum‘s controversial “Nude Men” exhibition—whose posters, featuring a Pierre & Gilles image of nude soccer players, were censored—became an improbable and irresistible photo op for visitors outside the Viennese institution.
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