Word: deliciosa
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...animal and botanical spare parts that Graves has cast directly in bronze. The things in her delirious lexicon of shapes include the fiddleheads of giant ferns, fragments of woven rattan, dried anchovies, pig intestines from the Chinese market below Canal Street in New York City, leaves of the Monstera deliciosa (another bow of homage, this time to Matisse, in whose late works that indoor plant is a constant character), broccoli stems, bamboo fans, the seed pods and roots of lotus, gourds, warty cucumbers, the breastbone of a turkey: a list without apparent limit. Some of the things Graves brought...
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