Word: nude
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Editor says the movie is too long. He says we could save 20 minutes by cutting out most of Cornelia's nude scenes. He also says we should dub her voice. Cornelia would never go for that...
...naturally from th camera's function as a precision instrument. Usually there is a sense of meditative arrest, as if the shutter really had stopped time, giving the images a most singular density. Callahan's visual world is not very busy. We are invited to scrutinize a nude body reduced to one exquisite line formed by the cleft of the buttocks and the thighs, against a white ground; and we do so with gratitude. If Ingres had been a photographer he might have arrived at images like Callahan's: subtle, disciplined, but above all as unrhetorical...
...soft gray paper, are among the most beautiful works in the show. The seated and half-length figures, part human, part mannequin, in these large prints are lost in private, unidentifiable thoughts. They are mysterious, often disturbing and erotic images, rich in psychological overtones. To several of the partly nude female figures Dine has added genitals painted in watercolor so that they glow like jewels...
...assumed that art had no chance of reforming the world. Yet a number of the combines do seem, at this distance, to be "coded." The title of Odalisk, 1955-58, directs us to a favorite image of those two sultans of French art, Ingres and Matisse?the harem nude. Rauschenberg parodies that: the box on its post alludes to a human figure; a torso, teetering on its absurd harem cushion. The sides of the box are plastered with pinups and reproductions of classical nudes. Finally, the stuffed chicken on top of the box reminds us that one of the many...
...color silk-screen paintings, like Retroactive I, 1964, are such soaring bel canto that one is apt to skip over the odd resonance of their images. Consider the red patch in the lower right corner: a silk-screen enlargement of a stroboscopic photo by Gjon Mili of a walking nude, done in imitation of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, which was itself based on an earlier sequential photo by Marey. The image stutters backward through technological time. But then it also looks like the grief-stricken Adam and Eve in Masaccio's Expulsion from Eden, and that turns...