Word: nudeness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chronique scandaleuse. Spain's great painter Francisco José Goya y Lucientes, also known as "the Turbulent," took a more than artistic interest in the beautiful Maria Teresa, Duchess of Alba (so gossip whispered in history's ear), and amused himself by painting her in the nude. A well-wisher tipped off her husband, the 13th Duke of Alba, who flew into a boiling Spanish rage. Gallant Goya had to think fast...
Spirit of the Arts. In the Salle Victor Hugo four armchairs and 16 straight chairs were set round the circular, greenclothed table. The ceiling overhead was covered with a painting of a winged nude youth, the Spirit of the Arts, who gazed benevolently on sundry French peasants and workers tilling fields, building houses, digging holes and filling them up again. "Any time the Ministers think things are going badly," said the Luxembourg's curator, "all they need to do is lean back and gaze at the ceiling and realize things could be worse...
...relief Nude carved in wood by New York's balding Andrew Lawrence Somers (who claims he only carves when bored, "and I'm bored most of the time...
...Nude in Manhattan. Stieglitz played host to a reckless, determined band. In 1913, the modernists captured Manhattan's huge 69th Regiment Armory, stocked it with some 1,600 examples of French and U.S. modern art. They adopted a motto, "The New Spirit," and distributed thousands of buttons bearing the pine-tree flag of the American Revolution. Probably 250,000 people saw the "Armory Show," and for a good many the experience was horrifying. For a glimpse of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase (see cut], they had to stand in line...
...track have tough sledding, and some, like the Pigalle in Montmartre, have never had a hit. Many theaters, furthermore, are "typed"-the saying goes that at the Palais-Royal there is always a bed on the stage. At the Palais-Royal it used to be traditional, too, for a nude woman to dash across the stage once during the evening. That was what the regular customers came for; but they got bored waiting, and requested the management to announce the precise hour of the spécialité. The management obligingly posted a timetable over the bar in the lobby...