Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carnal Knowledge-- Jack Nicholson and Ann Margaret go the way of all flesh in this bizarre and pointless chropnicle of developing sexual awareness. Art Garfunkel maundered his way through the film just like he's maundered his away through his recent songs while Ann Margret provides the jiggle interest. Nicholson is both effective and repulsive and the ending is a masterpiece of peverse nihilism. In short, an interesting waste...
Frank's is an art of subject matter. And its basic subject ? the sensation of inhabiting a body whose surface is enveloped by air, water or earth ? is put before us allusively. In the exhibition of some 140 works that runs through the summer at the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, N.Y., most of the pieces are figures or heads. But they are complex, swathed in images of metamorphosis. One of Frank's recurrent themes from classical mythology is that of Daphne, the daughter of a river god; pursued by an amorous Apollo, she turned into a laurel tree...
...spontaneity, for Frank knows where to leave a shape before it loses its sketchlike character. Harder sculptural materials, like wood, metal or stone, connote resistance and planned decision. But clay accepts fleeting impressions, and incorporating these into sculpture is very much the purpose of Mary Frank's art...
...there is something more to her use of clay than the immediacy and malleability of the raw material. As the show's guest curator, Hayden Herrera, points out in her warmly sympathetic catalogue essay, clay is "the oldest material for art and an emphatically primitive, even primal substance." (The first sculpture of a man, as every reader of Genesis knows, was made from clay when God modeled Adam.) Clay is earth, and Frank's figures of sprawling nudes and entwined lovers, tenderly dislocated, are clearly meant to be seen as emanations of the earth, concretions of place and appetite...
...transform his son-in-law into a proper husband. But the newlyweds insist on going their own comic way: secreting a poet's mad mother in one of the nursing homes, serving as interior decorators to a psychotherapist who conducts his sessions in coffins. When Sudah renounces art for yoga, embracing celibacy as well, Mara is demoted from wife to sister. Disgruntled, she continues to work on her magnum opus, a series of short stories on the theme: "How I Lost My Virginity"; they form a memorable stand-up comedy within Reich's acid comedy...