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Word: eadweard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...human body to a test of political correctness. A 1964 work by Sol LeWitt failed the test of Elizabeth Broun, director of the Smithsonian's NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART in Washington. LeWitt's piece -- part of a touring show of work inspired by the 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge -- is a long black box with 10 portholes. A viewer passing from one to the next sees successive shots of an advancing naked woman. Broun compared the work to a peep show and removed it from the walls, until the resulting uproar compelled her to put it back. Broun says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

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