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If Demuth could not place his deepest sexual predilections in the open, he could still make art from them. Seen from our distance, that of a pornocratic culture drenched in genital imagery, the skill with which he did this might seem almost quaint. But in Demuth's day, the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Charles Demuth amid the Silos | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

The real boy soon found out. A director-daredevil in the grand British line of Michael Powell and David Lean, Boorman thinks there is still an empire, of traditions if not of global power, worth challenging and defending. Let smaller-souled men paint still lifes of kitchen sinks; Boorman is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: War Dreams HOPE AND GLORY | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

When he got back to California, he began to apply those lessons to his famous studies of nautilus shells and vegetables, using four-hour exposures to draw in every crevice and gleam of some resounding larger form. These pictures were a watershed for Weston. The pictorialists used soft focus for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Peppers From Heaven | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

The flavor of Lopez's art is peculiar and difficult to describe in the abstract. A good starting point is his small still life of a rabbit on a plate, dated 1972. It is just that, and no more: a rabbit skinned for roasting by a Spanish butcher, with its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Truth in the Details | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

In order to achieve this closeness, Hockney did pastiche still-lifes of many photographs taken of the same scene but from different angles. In some of these montages he includes images of his own feet.

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: Artist Hockney Discusses Involving Self With Art | 2/7/1986 | See Source »

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