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Word: bather (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hence, the energy of The Embrace, 1925, its lovers grappling on a sofa in their orifice-laden knot of apoplectic randiness. Hence, too, the fear (amounting sometimes to holy terror, but more often to a witch-killing misogyny) that emanates from creatures like the bony mantis woman of Seated Bather, 1930. Such images are cathartic. One needs colossal self-confidence to expose such insecurities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art 1980: Picasso, modernism's father, comes home to MOMA | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...Hence, the energy of The Embrace, 1925, its lovers grappling on a sofa in their orifice-laden knot of apoplectic randiness. Hence, too, the fear (amounting sometimes to holy terror, but more often to a witch-killing misogyny) that emanates from creatures like the bony mantis woman of Seated Bather, 1930. Such images are cathartic: they project fears that no French artist (and outside France, only Edvard Munch) would even admit to. One needs colossal self-confidence to expose such insecurities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Show of Shows | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

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