Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...witticisms touching on recent and long dead issues. 1919 wanted to know "Who Said Widow Nolan's Is A Racket". 1929 bewailed the fact that "In '29 Our Stock Was High, In '39 Our Hock Is Higher," while 1936 punned, "Undergraduates Learn To Swallow Goldfish, Graduates Forced To Swallow Nude...
...without inspiration: Since most members of the crew liked to gloat over Milton Caniff's comic strip, Terry and the Pirates, which runs daily in the Boston Herald, they hit on the idea of asking him to send them a picture of one of his luscious, semi-nude female characters. Cartoonist Caniff obliged with a sketch of a girl named Burma. Harvard won by six lengths...
Though it was obvious that San Franciscans should be lured to visit their Fair several times, Director Connick arranged few entertainments anyone would care to see twice. He gave Sally Rand an exclusive contract for a nude show, promptly signed contracts for others. When Sally Rand kicked, he sicked police on her, forced her girls to don brassieres. Last week no successor was appointed. Actual runners of the show from now on will probably be two members of the board of management, Philip Patchin (Standard Oil of California) and James Byers Black (Pacific Gas & Electric), whose companies are the Fair...
...splash is to put on a "subject exhibition." These range from stunt shows which purists deplore (e.g., "Great Rivers in Art" or "Paintings of Pigs") to loftier surveyals of important art forms. In the lofty class this week Manhattan's rich M. Knoedler & Co. presented "Classics of the Nude"-31 pictures from Pollaiuolo to Picasso. This was a good idea. The linear play and complex modeling of the human body, the textures, transparencies and color subtleties of the skin, have made nude painting what Bernard Berenson called "the most absorbing problem of classic art." To do the subject justice...
...Venus at her Toilet turned her opulent, cool and massive back. A pig-eyed, swollen-bellied little courtesan appeared in Lucas Cranach's delicately painted Nymph Reposing. From the 17th Century came a dusky Landscape with Nymphs and Satyrs by France's great Nicolas Poussin. How nude painting became stage prettiness and erotic folderol in 18th-and early 19th-Century France was almost too amply demonstrated in pictures by Watteau, Boucher, Baudouin, Girodet and Prud...