Word: goya
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...part of an all-out antismut crusade, Summerfield tried to ban Lady Chatterley's Lover from the mails (TIME, June 22), succeeded only in helping that tired old novel to the top of the bestseller list. Last week Summerfield's men were wrestling with another lady, Francisco Goya's masterpiece, The Naked Maja...
...fight began last March, when United Artists mailed 2,268 postcard reproductions of the painting to editors, film and record distributors as a promotion stunt for a film about Goya and his great and good friend, the Duchess of Alba, supposedly the model for The Maja. The Post Office took one look, pronounced them obscene and seized them...
Delighted that an ordinary publicity stunt had been blown up into a national sensation, United Artists fought the case. In a hearing last April, Post Office Examiner William A. Duvall upheld the ban. The Goya original, he conceded, "is a masterpiece, [and] nudity is not obscene." But Duvall argued that United Artists had sent out a poor reproduction. Said he: "It is a copy of a photograph which does not accurately depict that which it purports to show ... It is simply a color picture of a nude woman...
...prize in painting went to Spain's Modesto Cuixart, 33, cousin but proclaimed rival of Spain's Antonio Tapies (TIME, March 16). Cuixart makes elegant mudpies, the blackest and heaviest in the notably gloomy Spanish exposition. Black may always be in fashion, especially in Spain. Yet the spirit of Goya is clearly not with Cuixart. He makes despair chic...
...Metropolitan Museum), was my godfather. Zuloaga was aware of the existence of the word "Solo" traced in the sand at the feet of the duchess, which has again come to light with the cleaning of the portrait. His interpretation of the word was "alone" or "lonely"-Lonely Goya-which would indicate the contrary of what the "experts" strive to prove with their translation "only" (which is, customarily, solamente...