Word: nude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against the walls were stacked scores of the most controversial paintings in the world. The plotters sat in an uncubistic circle. As their breath congealed in the frigid studio air (which Picasso's tall, elegant stove failed to thaw), a multi-planed, reclining nude regarded them with an angular...
...first and only sculpture he showed in a public exhibition inspired ridicule, even some alarm, in critics and public alike. That figure was the famed Ballet Dancer, Dressed (see cut). He first modeled the homely, arrogant little dancer in the nude, then, with breath-taking disregard for tradition, dressed her in linen waist and muslin skirt. The public was more amazed by the covering of this figure (solemnly exhibited like a doll dressed in real clothes) than it usually is by decent, or even indecent, exposure. Degas never again exhibited his sculpture...
Model Behavior. In Manhattan, Detective James Costello, patrolling Broadway in the small hours, noticed a shattered show window displaying four dummies, three nude, one clothed. When the clothed dummy twitched, Detective Costello reached in and arrested one Albert Gibson for burglary...
...personnel will stay out here until the war with Japan is ended. We feel that too many soldiers are making a rush for that demobilization boat. . . . We, too, would like to get the hell out of the service and back to the homes which we love, but faced with nude "reality we believe that we have the intestinal fortitude to forget our personal desires and finish the hard, relentless job before us. The point of these two issues is that the Army should let go of Mama's apron strings, and get a little more determination to finish...
...English parents who had settled in Lewiston, Me. He studied at the Cleveland Art School, Manhattan's Chase School and National School of Design, contributed to Manhattan's historic 1913 Armory Show, where modern art first drew a big U.S. public, thanks to Marcel Duchamps' cubistic Nude Descending a Staircase. Hartley was also among the handful of modernists sponsored by famed Manhattan Photographer Alfred Stieglitz...