World Radio

In 'Exhibit A' on her Sunday Morning arts programme (ABC Radio National), Julie Copeland has been examining how the 20th century's great and influential art books and essays have shaped our understanding of the visual arts. This week she talked to Frances Borzello about Kenneth Clark’s classic, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form. He argued that the English language's artificial distinction between the 'naked' and the 'nude' was an 18th century invention.