What would Clark have made of the selfie age, when we can all become nudes instantly?
Lindbergh set out, he says, "to create a calendar not around perfect bodies, but on sensitivity and emotion, stripping down to the very soul of the sitters, who thus become more nude than naked". .
In other words, the story of Kim Kardashian's baby bump is so completely and totally here until the precise moment it becomes her, nude, on the cover of Paper Magazine.
Sculpturesque nudes become common in Gossart's later paintings, but they seldom avoid the stiff quality of his earlier figures.
It was, however, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, painted by Picasso in 1907, that presaged the new style; in this work, the forms of five female nudes become fractured, angular shapes.
But these images are jumbled with shots of eggs, meat and even shoes, so that the stark nudes become oddly mundane.
In the later autobiographical stories, the nudes become flesh but approach only a little nearer: the love objects of "Pet Milk" and "Chopin in Winter" are fugitive figures, always escaping the lens of his prose.
Nudes had finally become just that, naked figures presented without excuses or apologies.
The athymic nude rat will become a valuable complementary tool to the nude mouse for the establishment and maintenance of human digestive tumours and for surgical and serial serological studies.
"If someone we get is never nude I go over and say, "why are you here?'" No matter how popular and upscale nude resorts become, one social convention is unlikely to change: Nudity and family vacations don't always mix.
