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...mangle distorted representations of sex as a way of recovering dignity or power. However, some artists seem unable to transcend the clichs, and their work is just as obvious as the stereotype. Many artists reiterate the woman equals doll equation without Leviten's adroitness. But Joe Fekieta, Bloody Chiclitz and Dale Kaplan use sharper instruments: humor, enigma, insight. Fekieta's grotesque pen-and-inks, each accompanied by a six-line poem, lampoon sex and relationships as often tangled and ridiculous-think lots of vines and anthropomorphic gourds. Overall, "Sex, Sexism, and Society" puts up a good fight, whether hitting...

Author: By Diane W. Lewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Visual Arts Review: | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

...mangle distorted representations of sex as a way of recovering dignity or power. However, some artists seem unable to transcend the clichs, and their work is just as obvious as the stereotype. Many artists reiterate the woman equals doll equation without Leviten's adroitness. But Joe Fekieta, Bloody Chiclitz and Dale Kaplan use sharper instruments: humor, enigma, insight. Fekieta's grotesque pen-and-inks, each accompanied by a six-line poem, lampoon sex and relationships as often tangled and ridiculous-think lots of vines and anthropomorphic gourds. Overall, "Sex, Sexism, and Society" puts up a good fight, whether hitting...

Author: By Diane W. Lewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Visual Arts Review: "Sex, Sexism, and Society" | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

...past the threshold of her understanding, a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meanings, of an intent to communicate." She pursues the revelation, and finds herself involved with a mysterious organization named Tristero. She pursues the secret of Tristero, and finds herself involved with such improbable characters as Stanley Koteks, Bloody Chiclitz and Genghis Cohen. At one point she experiences carnal congress in a closet; at another she watches an acid head freaking freely; at still another she gravely. observes a "nosepicking contest"-a term, come to think of it, that pretty well describes all these books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nosepicking Contests | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

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