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Also by Kathleen Rooney:

Man Overboard!, July 2026
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From Dust to Stardust, September 2023
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Live Nude Girl, February 2009
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LIVE NUDE GIRL
By: Kathleen Rooney

My Life as an Object

University of Arkansas Press
February 2009
On Sale: January 26, 2009
200 pages
ISBN: 1557288917
EAN: 9781557288912
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Photography

Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object is a lively meditation on the profession of art modeling as it has been practiced in history and as it is practiced today. Kathleen Rooney draws on her own experiences working as an artists’ model, as well as the famous, notorious, and mysterious artists and models through the ages. Through a combination of personal perspective, historical anecdote, and witty prose, Life Nude Girl reveals that both the appeal of posing nude for artists and the appeal of drawing the naked figure lie in our deeply human responses to beauty, sex, love, and death.

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Talk of the Nation - March 9, 2009