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The current Supreme Court definition of obscenity requires that a "reasonable person," applying "contemporary community standards," would find that the work appeals to the prurient interest, depicts patently offensive sexual behavior and lacks serious artistic value. Last month Judge F. David Albanese, a former assistant county prosecutor, made the defense...
One of the exhibition's key paintings is a little-known Picasso, Studies, from 1920. It looks like a detail from the wall of his studio on which a number of postcards of his own works have been arranged, in all their diversity of style: cubist still lifes reproduced in...
What the exhibition offers, really, is the ultimate challenge to our sensibilities. Mapplethorpe photographed his life and the life around him. His still-lifes depict beauty and intense eroticism. His portraits of celebrities and friends are marked by highly aestheticised definition and exaggerated characterization. He forces us to ask ourselves...
Joan Brown exaggerated gesturalism and surface texture by troweling mortar- thick layers of paint on canvas. Her exuberant, gloppy subjects ranged from youthful nudes (Girls in the Surf with Moon Casting a Shadow, 1962) to kitchen appliances (Refrigerator Painting, 1964) and the goofy, squinting face of her pet dog (Models...
For centuries, a deeply rooted appreciation of nature has played a central role in the spiritual and cultural life of Japan. Japanese artists traditionally reflected this reverence not in intellectual abstractions but concretely, in highly stylized representations of specific rivers, mountains, plants and animals. As in other aspects of Japanese...