Στα αντίστοιχα ιστολόγια δημοσιεύονται οι περιλήψεις, βιβλιοκριτικές και σχόλια αναγνωστών για την περίοδο 2008-2019. Π.χ. στη διεύθυνση http://naturistarchives1900s.blogspot.com βρίσκετε ό,τι εκδόθηκε την πρώτη δεκαετία του 20ο'υ αιώνα κ.ο.κ.

Turning to Nature in Germany is a study of mass movements that aimed to bring the German people into closer contact with nature. In the early twentieth century organized hikers, nudists, and conservationists all looked to nature for solutions to the nation's political crises. Following these movements over three political eras―the Second Empire, the Weimar Republic, and the Third Reich―the book shows how manifestations of popular culture reflected the concerns and hopes of their time. Williams breaks with historians who have long seen nature movements as anti-modern and irrational by arguing that naturists were calling not for Germany to turn back the clock, but for the nation to find a way to navigate the treacherous waters of contemporary life and strive toward a brighter future.

John Alexander Williams (2007). Turning to Nature in Germany: Hiking, Nudism, and Conservation, 1900-1940. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Hardcover. 354p. 12 illustrations, ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-0015-3.

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Imagine, if you will, that you are a fly sitting high on the wall of a three-sided wing of a metropolitan art museum. This room has been set aside for a single-size sculture of a male nude upon a pedestal, around which a group of older school children, their teacher and a few random adults are gathered in a hushed and admiring circle, together with the museum lecturer, who is holding forth on the various merits of the piece in question. At times, some of the onlookers slowly circle the stature to find a slightly different perspective.

Now look to the outside, beyond the large, frosted window panes. it is a hot day, an don the broad sidewalk running past the museum, a man strides determinedly ahead, his eyes focused to the front. Except for his sandals, this gent is completely naked. There is a bit of amused heckling from some onlookers across the avenue, in front of a barbershop, but our pedestrian ignores the catcalls.

Suddenly a police car pulls up/ Two burly officers in blue shirts and shorts emerge and belligerently confront the walker. After a brief exchange of words, the officers hustle the naked man into the back seat of the squad car, covering him rather perfunctorily with a blanket. They pull out and take ther prisoner a half dozen blocks to the area police station, where he is booked for "indecent exposure" and incarcerated until his family can arrive with a bail bondsman.

An imaginary scenario, this could easily have been a real one. It Illustrates the screening cacophony stemming from our schizophrenic attitudes towards nude "art: versus the sight of the real thing— a living, bretahing, naked human being.

If you can hold two opposing views in your head, some might call you a philosopher. Others mght call you a fool.

Dennis Craig Smith (2010). Naked Fear: Anti-body Myths, Phobias, Delusions and the Madness of Modesty. Riverside, CA: The Ultraviolet Press. Softcover. 16 illustrations. ISBN-13: 978-0-9652085-2-9.

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Confrontations with naked human bodies can provoke powerful, and often contradictory, impressions and feelings. Just as they might either thrill or revolt, they can signal innocence or sexiness, frankness or madness, a oneness with nature or a separation from society. Advertisers and the media are very aware of the complex and highly subjective associations that most of us have towards nakedness, and use images incessantly to compete for our attention. Yet mystics have embraced nudity to get closer to God or to some other remote power, while political activists have discovered that baring all is one of the most effective ways to gain publicity for a cause.

In A Brief History of Nakedness, Philip Carr-Gomm traces our preoccupation with nudity in three distinct areas of human endeavour: religion, politics and popular culture. Rather than study the history of the fine-art nude, or detail the ways in which the naked body has been denigrated or imprisoned, this book explores new territory - revealing the ways in which religious teachers, politicians, protestors and cultural icons have used nudity to enlighten or empower themselves, or simply to entertain us.

From the naked sages of India and St Francis of Assisi to modern-day druids and Christian nudists, from The Full Monty and Calendar Girls to Lady Godiva and Lady Gaga, A Brief History of Nakedness surveys the touching, sometimes tragic, and often bizarre story of our relationship with our own and with others' naked bodies. 

Philip Cqrr Gomm (2010). A Brief History of Nakedness, London: Reaktion Books Ltd. Hardcover. 286p. 143 illustrations, 99 in colour. ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-647-6.

Τitle: Die Schönheit, Heft 5 XXI Jahrgang, 1925
Finnland
Subtitle: Monatsschrift für Kunst und Leben
Publisher: R. A. Giesecke, Verlag der Schönheit, Dresden
Editor: Wilm Burghardt
Language: German
Country of Origin: Germany
Format: 172x245mm (trimmed)
Pages: (volume continuous pagination) 84 single colour including covers) as follows:
(classified section), 66-80 printed on yellowish paper; (main section), 213-260 printed on matt art paper and (news, announcements and so on), 65-80 printed on yellowish paper including the monthly newsletter „Licht-Luft-Leben“ together with „Der Mensch“, Monatsschrift für Schönheit, Gesundheit, Geist, Körperbildung
Illustrations: 34 black and white plates, pictures and sketches
Front Cover Sketch: von Y. Siipola
Frequency: Monthly
Binding: Thread stitched
Weight: 160gr.
Single Copy: M.1.25

CONTENTS / INHALT  „DIE SCHÖNHEIT“
(213) Finnland von Wilhelm Schreiber
(214) Von finnischer Dicht- und Bildkunst von Dr. Felix Zimmermann 
(232) Über das finnische National-Epos „Kalevala“ von Dr. F.R. Benndorf
(249) Aleksis Kivi und sein Werk, von Heinrich Minden
(253) Inge Frank und der erstatische Tanz von Dr. Ernat Schertel

Licht Luft Leben
(65) Naturistimmung im Norden Finnlands von Heinrich Pudor
(66) Die finnische Badestube
(68) Die finnische Sportbewegung
(70) Das finnische Kinderbildstwerk
(71) Körperkultur auf Gekldscheinen
(71) Über schöne Füße und ihre Pslege
(73) Aus unserer Bewegung
(75) Verscchiedenes
(76) Vom Bücherrtisch

Τitle: Die Schönheit, Heft 5 XXII. Jahrgang, 1926
Rot und Tod der Adamiten
Subtitle: Monatsschrift für Kunst und Leben
Publisher: R. A. Giesecke, Verlag der Schönheit, Dresden
Editor: Wilm Burghardt
Language: German
Country of Origin: Germany
Format: 172x245mm (trimmed)
Pages: (volume continuous pagination) 84 single colour including covers) as follows:
(classified section), 65-80 printed on yellowish paper; (main section), 201-248 printed on matt art paper and (news, announcements and so on), 65-80 printed on yellowish paper including the monthly newsletter „Licht-Luft-Leben“ together with „Der Mensch“, Monatsschrift für Schönheit, Gesundheit, Geist, Körperbildung
Illustrations: 22 black and white plates, pictures and sketches
Front Cover Sketch: Rot und Tod der Adamiten von W. Pagofsky
Frequency: Monthly
Binding: Thread stitched
Weight: 154gr.
Single Copy: M.1.50
Subscription rates: (3 issues) M. 9.-

CONTENTS / INHALT  „DIE SCHÖNHEIT“

(202) Hymnus an die Sonne von Dr. Marius
(203) Der religiöse Nacktkult der Adamiten von Joseph Rötzer
(211) Die Nacktbeter von Erwin Höffner
(217) Die Adamiten in Böhmen von Edmund-Johannes Reimer
(222) Die Körperkulturbewegung der „Böhmischen Adamiten“ in Zentral-Europa von Edmund-Johannes Reimer
(233) Rot und Tod der Adamiten
(242) Die Freuden der Körperkultur von Johannes Große

CONTENTS / INHALT  „LICHT – LUFT – LEBEN“  / „DER MENSCH“,

 Monatsschrift für Schönheit / Geist / Körperbildung
XXII. Band  Heft 6

(65) Körperkultur und kirchliche Presse von Werner Man
(67) Die Ehen ach der Bibel von Rechtsanwalt Deuter
(71) Aus unserer Bewegung
(72) Verschiedenes
(73) Vom Büchertisch