Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defend an outrageous example of irresponsible scholarship. Robert B. Leflar '72 Phllip N. Alexander '73 Ronald L. Tresper, tutor Harvey Nicholls '73 Donna J. Brorby '73 Kenneth R. Manning, tutor Harllsos A. Lessios '73 Kenneth H. Hass '72 Frank R. Beaton '72 Betsy L. Wolf '73 Marcin A. Duncan '74 Bernard Lo, tutor and 93 other members of Dunster House...
...such Picasso intimate is Photographer David Douglas Duncan, himself the subject of a recent story in TIME'S Art section (Sept. 20). It was a 1960 Duncan photograph that served as the base for an unusual Picasso self-portrait. We publish it this week along with reproductions of 68 other Picasso works. Duncan took the picture of Picasso when the artist visited Duncan's house near Cannes. Instead of merely signing the picture, as Duncan had hoped, Picasso used his crayons to give himself a black beard and an orange hat that resembles a sombrero. The effect seems...
...thing makes it really different," says Duncan. "Picasso is squinting with laughter. Usually his eyes are deep chestnut orbs that never blink. I find it refreshing that the man who has transformed so many other figures in art sees himself with humor...
...years after the photograph was taken, Duncan received what may well be the modern art world's ultimate honor. On his 46th birthday, Duncan was summoned to Picasso's studio. There on the artist's easel was a drawing of Duncan, right elbow raised high as he shoots a bird staring straight into the lens of his camera. "Photographers always used to say, 'Look at the birdie,' " laughed Picasso. "O.K. There's the bird, and there you are too. Happy birthday...
...vitality-image or phallus of the West that every sketch, painting or dish tends to be greeted with the same ritually stupefied reverence. Hence la légende Picasso, which has been energetically prodded along by writers like Hélène Parmelin and photographers like David Douglas Duncan and Gjon Mili. From their breathless accounts a satyr rises, mythic, Gargantuan, and fatally easy to parody. The Maestro's working day, one might suppose, begins with a light breakfast of goat's testicles and salade niçoise. Then, surrounded by a flock of admiring tame doves...