Word: nude
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...count, the plot courts starvation. The setting is a drafty, government-sponsored art studio, a cross between a ratty garret and an army barracks. Several young men and women of working-class origin drift in. Their teacher, Allott (Kevin Conway), has come earlier, as has Stella (Veronica Castang), the nude model. As the students stand at their sketch boards, it is quickly apparent that they are wholly inept and could not tell Degas from dandruff. They are whiling away the days on a subsidized boondoggle, and for them art is what Writer Rose Macaulay once said of a certain novel...
...bathroom is the most important room in any house. It is the one place where people can be nude, solitary and mute for any protracted period. It is a refuge for all reasons, serving also as laundry room, solarium, greenhouse and primping parlor, a place for delousing pets, deep thinking and stashing wet umbrellas. Yet even in its more basic functions, the contemporary American bathroom is "hopelessly antiquated and inadequate," in the view of Alexander Kira, an architect and Cornell professor who has immersed himself in the subject for 17 years. Indeed, he points out, the Western loo has changed...
...more successful series culminates in "Planes by Colors: Large Nude" (1909-10). Here the simply conceived form of the reclining woman in the sketch is amplified by the free, expressive use of color--green highlights, purple-pink shade. The personality seen in the line is universalized by the abstraction of the color: the painting is a vibrant whole...
...Touch of Class, who claimed to be running a legitimate business, closed down after the city passed a massage-parlor law. Then he threatened to reopen as a photographic-arts studio. The city discovered it also had regulations covering photo studios, so Touch of Class is now a nude-sketch studio. Milwaukee is currently trying to pass restrictions on all "body studios." San Francisco operators metamorphosed their businesses from bottomless bars to topless restaurants, massage parlors and now nudie encounter groups. In once staid Des Moines, which has some 20 sex-service businesses, a ban on outcall massage produced...
...David de Rothschild and, at the moment, Auto Heir Ricky von Opel. Early in Marisa's career, Vogue Editor in Chief Diana Vreeland announced: "Many faces are alluring, but hers is chic. She can wear a hat like nobody else." She could also take it off: she posed nude for both Vogue and Playboy. "Some of the greatest works of art are of nudes," Marisa explains...