Word: cuirass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...together, to the destroying Kali, to Robert Graves' White Goddess, to Alban Berg's Lulu, to Lilith and Marlene and Marilyn and Mona Lisa. Now obviously these drawings do have their demonic aspect - the air of Woman, circa 1951, with her staring black pupils, bared teeth and cuirass-like breasts, testifies to that; they are not just formal exercises. It certainly seems that De Kooning finds it hard to imagine women in other than two aspects: either the cas-tratrix or the pink, spraddling floozy who flounders dumbly around the Long Island shore line in his latest works...