Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brown wax boiled on a rosy, potbellied stove. In the 100-ft.-long casting shed, coke fires hissed under fat crucibles shaped like medieval cannons, and overhead hoists trundled swaddled casts to their firing-pits. In a finishing room, a workman lay in the arms of a large bronze nude, reverently polishing her nose. In another corner, Marc Chagall supervised the application of a patina to his latest piece. Mustache quivering, Salvador Dali dropped in to examine a bronze book cover that had just been cast...
...method once used by Duchamp for writing music-he drew notes and musical markings out of a bag at random. But the volume makes up for the grab-bag text by reproducing almost every known work of Expressionist Cubist-Surrealist Duchamp, from his mustachioed Mona Lisa and famed Nude Descending a Staircase to the catalogue cover he decorated with a foam-rubber breast and the caption: "Please touch...
...earliest effort of Modigliani, Reclining Female Nude, relates directly to his sculptural experimentation in primitive forms, but even here, lyricism, his greatest gift, predominates. From 1911 to 1915, Modigliani was profoundly influenced by Cubist distortion of the human form, and most of his drawings from this period are unsatisfying. In oil paint, the vigor of his rough and somewhat arbitrary compositions is easily expressed but soft and hard graphite pencil on a thin, flexible paper cannot imbue them with the necessary conviction. The scribbly, hectic quality of a piece like La Francaise indicates the extent to which the Cubist treatment...
...rock garden of schoolboy short stories, failed poems, fragments of plays, snippings from old novels and lumps from a new one-a mammoth work which Mailer says will probably take ten years to write and may be unprintable. Judging from the excerpts offered, its title should be The Nude and the Stewed...
...conceded, "is a masterpiece, [and] nudity is not obscene." But Duvall argued that United Artists had sent out a poor reproduction. Said he: "It is a copy of a photograph which does not accurately depict that which it purports to show ... It is simply a color picture of a nude woman...