{"id":97024,"date":"2016-04-15T18:51:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T22:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=97024"},"modified":"2016-04-16T13:40:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T17:40:12","slug":"nude-bookplates-should-they-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/15\/nude-bookplates-should-they-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Nude Bookplates: Should They Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_97037\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/83286c4864858fdc2b4a528333983199.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97037\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97037\" class=\"wp-image-97037\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/83286c4864858fdc2b4a528333983199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/83286c4864858fdc2b4a528333983199.jpg 736w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/83286c4864858fdc2b4a528333983199-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97037\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of many ex-libris nudes widely held to be in poor taste.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s time. I must bring to your attention the least essential controversy of 114 years ago: nude bookplates.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, everyone loves a good ex libris, and time was when no serious reader would be without one\u2014but you couldn\u2019t just go slapping any old thing on your flyleaves. You had to exercise\u00a0<em>good taste.<\/em>\u00a0In a 1902 book called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/51643\/51643-h\/51643-h.htm#chap05\" target=\"_blank\">Book-plates of To-day<\/a><\/em>, Wilbur Macey Stone\u2014whose very name conjures many constipated nights with a musty\u00a0tome by the fireside\u2014lays out a few aesthetic guidelines for the bookplate connoisseur. And it isn\u2019t long before he gets to the big issues.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have the temerity,\u201d Stone writes, \u201cto open a new field of battle and throw down the gauntlet for strife. The Eternal Feminine is a prominent factor in the picture book-plates of the day, and she is showing some tendencies to appear minus her apparel. Question: Is it wise and in good taste?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His verdict: a resounding <em>no<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, not so resounding, maybe. Stone is totally in favor of nudity in bookplates, as long as the nudes follow a few simple rules, all of which you must bear in mind the next time you disrobe for a bookplate portraitist:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Don\u2019t let on that you know you\u2019re naked. \u201cA nude figure should never carry the idea of a consciousness of its nudity!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Take it all off: \u201cclothing or drapery used simply to hide portions of the figure is execrable and more suggestive than any entire absence of clothing.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Yes, even your heels: \u201cto add, as I have seen done, a hat and French-heeled shoes to a nude figure is abominable beyond condemnation.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Got a headdress? Leave it at home. \u201cArmand Rassenfosse, of Belgium, has etched a number of dainty, faultlessly drawn and really most beautiful nudes, but many of them have been ruined by the needless addition of shoes and fancy head-dresses.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Remember to pay obeisance to our Lord and savior: \u201cit must deviate not one jot or tittle from the divine, for any deviation is to tend to the earthy and gross, which is vulgar.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You\u2019d be surprised, though, how few early twentieth-century nude bookplates conform to these rules. Stone casts his withering gaze upon all of them.\u00a0To his credit, he\u2019s always sure to spare a few kind words for the artists before brutally dismissing their work. \u201cThe design for Emil Gerh\u00e4user is inoffensive and well-drawn,\u201d he says of one, \u201cbut surely is not beautiful, and lacks a good excuse for existence.\u201d Then onto the next:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a generally pleasing decorative arrangement for Robert H. Smith, Harold Nelson, an English designer, shows a rather attenuated nude maiden looking with envy at a gorgeous peacock on the opposite side of the design; while the peacock in turn seems to say, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you grow some feathers?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Devastating, Wilbur.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So are there <em>any <\/em>permissible nudes in his survey? Yes, kind of. Stone singles out a plate by one E.\u00a0D. French, so exquisite and sensitive in its rendering of the human form that even he can\u2019t resist its charms. \u201cThe design shows a nude shepherd boy piping to his flock,\u201d he writes, \u201cand is elegant and beautiful, an ideal plate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Below, some of the many nude bookplates that didn\u2019t pass muster.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_97033\" style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bpt079.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97033\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97033\" class=\"wp-image-97033 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bpt079.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bpt079.png 324w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bpt079-171x300.png 171w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nope.<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_97034\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bpt075.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97034\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97034\" class=\"wp-image-97034 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bpt075.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bpt075.png 390w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bpt075-171x300.png 171w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No.<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_97035\" style=\"width: 356px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bpt074.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97035\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97035\" class=\"wp-image-97035 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bpt074.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bpt074.png 346w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bpt074-209x300.png 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Absolutely not.<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_97036\" style=\"width: 372px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bpt077.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97036\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97036\" class=\"wp-image-97036 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bpt077.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bpt077.png 362w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/bpt077-218x300.png 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I can\u2019t even \u2026<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>Dan Piepenbring is the web editor of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time. I must bring to your attention the least essential controversy of 114 years ago: nude bookplates. Yes, everyone loves a good ex libris, and time was when no serious reader would be without one\u2014but you couldn\u2019t just go slapping any old thing on your flyleaves. You had to exercise\u00a0good taste.\u00a0In a 1902 book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8419],"tags":[21986,21984,3351,21983,8006,14713,272,14550,21985],"class_list":["post-97024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird-book-room","tag-book-plates-of-to-day","tag-bookplates","tag-ex-libris","tag-nudes","tag-nudity","tag-old-books","tag-publishing","tag-twentieth-century","tag-wilbur-macey-stone"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nude Bookplates: Should They Exist?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We report, you decide.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/15\/nude-bookplates-should-they-exist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nude Bookplates: Should They Exist? by Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"April 15, 2016 \u2013 It\u2019s time. 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