Word: nudeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PAINTING AND DRAWING THE NUDE, PART I: THE MALE-Banfer, 23 East 67th. Adam as depicted by 23 U.S. artists. Besides an assortment of mundane classical studies there are some forceful skinscapes: Jacob Landau's unbound Prometheus agonized by fire and trance; Paul Cadmus' eerie, restive painting, The Shower; John Fenton's intimations of mortality in Death of a Bullfighter. Through...
...omission, and these two fine volumes display the art-and the inner workings of genius-at its highest. Great Drawings travels from 15th century Painter Jan Van Eyck's warm and perceptive silverpoint, Portrait of Cardinal Niccolo Albergati, to the sensual shorthand of Matisse's Female Nude from the Back. Italian Drawings, more modest in scope and quality of reproduction, restricts itself to the 15th to 19th centuries. The subjects in both books range from rustic landscapes to architectural fantasies, from figure studies to exquisite faces...
...BOIS-Graham, 1014 Madison Ave. at 78th St. (second floor). A 20-year (1913-33) slice of Du Bois' career, ranging from his alabastrine redhead in Nude Seated on Chair through his flat-chested flappers of the '20s to his plastered blonde in Carnival Interlude. Through...
...offers few surprises. This time around, Mitchum & Co. see the usual things (poisonous snakes, charging rhinos, a terribly cute baby elephant), say the usual things ("You're different from any woman I've ever known"), do the usual things (he palavers with suspicious natives, she takes a nude dip in a jungle pool). At one point Mitchum is tempted to do something different. The head boy (Sabu), grinning miscegenially, offers him the use of his wife-"Plenty for two. Is custom." Is not custom censors approve; so Hero Mitchum, gulping hard, goes slinking off in pursuit of less...
...upraised brow and of the line of his head, body and right thigh, and the horizontals of his extended left leg and arm. Less rigid, but little less effective, is the way in which the soft, swelling contours of his "Cloud" are echoed by those of the nude who reclines...