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...committee's report cites the Faculty's approval of coeducational ing?? sity...
...this does not deny that some artists can illustrate "be-ing" in their paintings. In the catalogue, White gives the example of Rembrandt's Bathsheba that Kenneth Clark describes in his book, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form; the viewer considers Bathsheba's thoughts transcending the moment depicted, "and yet these thoughts are indissolubly part of her body." Here is the gist of be-ing without clothes: "the presence of thought that vitalizes the whole human being...
White's argument is well suited in the words of his catalogue, but by itself the exhibit does not give us enough evidence to determine what "be-ing" is, or even enough information to excite the question "what is be-ing?" From the single quote placed in the exhibition, one tends to feel that White's concept of "be-ing" is simplistic, which is proven the contrary in his catalogue...
Although it's understandable that White is drawing plans rather than constructing "be-ing" in this exhibit, what could have been illustrated more effectively is the differentiation between "nude," "naked," and "be-ing without clothes"-the last of which for White is "ultimately neither nude nor naked...
...White had pointed out these aspects of "the nude" as an ideal form of art distinguished from the "naked" as an ideal form of life, maybe then we'd understand "be-ing without clothes" as a form of camerawork that is neither "nude" nor "naked." Rather, he lets a hundred photos determine his exhibition instead of locating them in relation to his statement of be-ingness as photography's ideal form...