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...soldier as he is now a woodland critter, Schnotz’s Gollum-like wildness emphasizes his pathetic fall from the military, society, and humanity. In addition, Lind captures his subjects with kind of dual childishness and precision; in sketching the form of Bachmann’s girlfriend Helga, he writes, “Before their eyes stood a Valkyrie in a short blue dress, disclosing stout calves and powerful knees that gave promise of heavenly thighs… Her breasts were bigger than the legendary blue mountains and just as unlikely, her bottom was as round as a terrestrial...
...also one of a new breed of dolls targeted at special-needs kids. Parents in the U.S. and Europe are snapping up Down Syndrome dolls, blind babies, paraplegic dolls in wheelchairs and dolls wearing scarves as if undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. "There's a therapeutic impact," says Helga Parks, who sells more than 2,000 Down Syndrome and Chemo Friends a year through her online Helga's European Specialty Toys. Parks believes her products boost a child's self-esteem by normalizing their condition, and foster understanding among peers: "They take away the fear and sense of alienation for both...
...Soon it emerged that the woman was Helga Testorf, a married housekeeper for Wyeth's sister Carolyn in Chadds Ford. Wyeth's wife Betsy claimed to have known nothing about the pictures. When she was asked what she thought was the motive behind them, she offered a melodramatic one-word reply: "Love." However they came to light, their "discovery" and the suggestion that they represented some secret love affair was news that got them on the cover of TIME and Newsweek and then a big exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington...
...Andrews, it turned out, was not actually a collector but a publisher of newsletters. ("Swine Flu Litigation Reporter" was one of them.) He was also a greeting-card manufacturer who had secured all reproduction rights to the Helga pictures. After the publicity storm had been whipped to a peak, he sold the whole bunch to a Japanese buyer for a reported $45 million. At that point, Wyeth found it prudent to come forward to say there had never been a sexual relationship between him and his model, and his wife announced that actually she had seen some of the pictures...
...Wyeth won't be remembered for the dubious moment of Helga. It's all those other quiet, elusive canvases that will stay with us. The canons of art history have loosened quite a bit in recent decades, enough so that no full picture of the modern world can exclude what he did. Who knows? Someday MoMA may even bring Christina all the way in from the cold...