Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Calder took a good look at the paintings of another friend, Piet Mondrian, and concluded: "Your rectangles should vibrate and oscillate." Then he rushed to his cluttered studio and went to work. When Painter Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp saw the results -brightly colored compositions of sheet metal, wire, steel rods and wood, moving by use of motors, pulleys or wind -he dubbed them "mobiles." Sculptor Jean Arp reacted by calling the nonmoving sculptures "stabiles." Thus were created two of the best-known terms of modern sculpture...
...banned under a state statute forbidding the sale of material which is "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent, or which contains pictures of nude or partially denuded figures likely to provoke or arouse lust or passion in persons below...
Gallerygoers who approach sculpture with high seriousness were put off at first by Greco's 7-ft., posturing Bathers, nude except for a Bikini with tight, binding bra. But Greco expects spectators to chuckle at the unexpected solemnity of their plump, vapid faces-while admiring their slender-legged charms. Says he, "They are comic figures, part of our society. They have participated in life; their participation is my theme...
...plumage was vivid and vulgar-a sport shirt with a palm-leaf motif, sometimes a tie with a bulb-breasted nude. His Stetson sat squarely on top of his head, a cigar grew out of the right corner of his mouth, and he glinted at the world through rimless, hexagonal glasses. Readers of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express could spot him at a glance: he was "the loud American." For the past nine years he has swaggered regularly through the frontpage, one-column panel drawn by one of England's most popular cartoonists: urbane, grandly mustached Osbert Lancaster...
...unknown foes promptly plant a six-inch venomous centipede in his bed ("Bond could feel it nuzzling at his skin. It was drinking! Drinking the beads of salt sweat!"). Bond gets to the small island, drops off to sleep only to awaken to the sight of a beautiful girl, nude but for a wide leather belt around her waist ("the belt made her nakedness extraordinarily erotic"). After his faithful native servant is scorched to death by a flamethrower Bond and the girl are ushered into the presence of the diabolical...