Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rheinold Mory, sculptor: " I designed a statue of a nude Venus for a public fountain in a suburb of Atlantic City, but the city council would not accept it. So I clothed her in a one-piece bathing suit and hung and draped a cape over her left arm, and the council accepted...
...Judaea Capta is a picture of Titus coming back to Rome with the spoils of conquered Jerusalem-including the captive daughters of Israel. Some nude Bacchantes are included for purposes of contrast...
...effort to stand straight as out-and-out liberals. In consequence, they resort to every extreme to show themselves in full sympathy with the latest popular movement in every field. Under these circumstances, liberalism tends to become radicalism, reflected in every "latest fad,"--in post-impressionistic renderings of the "Nude Falling Downstairs" or enamelled legs to supplant hosiery. Convention, tradition, anything intellectually respectable or time-tried becomes "old-fashioned" and accordingly hopelessly damned. Every engaged couple do not insist upon having their marriage ceremony performed in the New Jersey surf in non-sinkable diving suits; or even in radio-ized...
...Degas are portraits, studies of nude figures, dancers, and scenes of the "Cafes Concerts". Of the portraits, especially fine in its delicacy of execution and its keen character portrayal is the portrait of the engraver, Tourney. Pissarro is represented by a number of landscapes and landscapes with figures in which he has made use of aquatint to give the effect of sunlight and shadow...