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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tynan: Until quite recently, erotic art was a category of art, accepted as such in China and India. Boucher's paintings for Louis XV were intended to arouse Louis XV, and by all accounts they did. I have been sexually aroused reading D. H. Lawrence, reading Ovid and reading of Hero and Leander. And it was Sir Kenneth Clark who said that anyone who paints a nude with no desire to produce an erotic effect is a hypocrite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Conversations on the New Eroticism | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

John Paul Russo '65 is a resident tutor in English in Dunster House; B. Ambler Boucher '70 is an undergraduate in Classics and English...

Author: By B. AMBLER Boucher and John PAUL Russo, S | Title: An Interview With I. A. Richards | 3/11/1969 | See Source »

...serenades and lush elegance of invisibly manicured garden estates. Collectors snapped his pictures up. Yet no matter what he showed, Watteau's view remained strangely aloof. A subtle veil of distance shrouds all his pictures, making them seem as much fantasy as reality. Unlike the nude nymphs of Boucher, Lancret and Fragonard, who with varying degrees of success were to echo his style, Watteau's aristocratic Co-lombines and shepherdesses remained fully clothed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Final Masquerade | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...sign, like artists. Porcelain factories turned out incense burners shaped like snails or elephants, tulip stands decorated with genre scenes. Yet, while artisans were elevated to the status of artists, painters often became as subservient as craftsmen. The vast majority of oils, watercolors and drawings made by Fragonard, Boucher, Watteau and Nattier to decorate boudoirs and gaming rooms were skillful but skin-deep pictures of pretty ladies, handsome gallants and idyllic landscapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: Mirror of an Era | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

There are wonderful drawings of all kinds in this show. The Degas chalk landscapes are very unusual--ephemeral, misty, and soft. Six Boucher studies are included, among them a wonderful study of hands, and a head by Bernini and one by Watteau. Contemporary drawings by Giacomo Porzano ("Man with a Cigarette") and Walt Kuhn ("Study for the painting 'Roberto'") are very stark and striking...

Author: By Betsy Nadas, | Title: Daniels Collection | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

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