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Critic Sarah Kent contemplates the place of the male nude in contemporary art.

Critic Sarah Kent contemplates the place of the male nude in contemporary art, from the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe to Sam Taylor-Wood's video of David Beckham.

In the fifth and final essay in the series, Men Only, the critic Sarah Kent contemplates the place of the male nude in contemporary art. She examines the differing approaches adopted by male and female artists and ranges from the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe to Sam Taylor-Wood's video of David Beckham . 

Producer: Zahid Warley

First broadcast in February 2012.

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Series of essays exploring the meaning of the male nude in the visual arts

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