Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thirty is supposed to be getting along for a nymph. But somehow, when la belle bebe ripened into what in others might be called maturity, the greatest concern of gallant Gauls was whether Brigitte Bardot herself would mind. "She declared to me that she no longer wants to appear nude on the screen," reported one clearly concerned correspondent. "What a shame! At 40, she could still show everything and reassure her contemporaries." Courage, amis. B.B. herself has said: "This fame that I love, that frightens me, I will do anything to keep and deserve...
...building a computer, you don't want anything that's not supposed to be there." Son of a Birmingham carpenter, Phillips fell into art school because he was too "cowardly" to work at a trade. At the Royal College of Art, he rebelled against painting "flowers and nude ladies" and turned out "huge paintings that looked a bit like 100th-rate De Koonings." Then he headed toward his present style, elaborating a sort of heraldry of modern times. His Gravy for the Navy, decked out with greyish triangles of prismatic glass, features images of U.S. pinups. Says Phillips...
Juxtaposed in Tracer are Army helicopters, a Rubens nude, a bald eagle, a street scene, all balanced in colorful harmonies and anchored by skeletal perspective boxes. As pure forms in relation, they make amusing pictorial sense-the ethereal blue nude seated on a parti-colored pedestal. There is no hidden allegory-no esoteric relationship between the birds and the helicopters. No set of footnotes is needed to explain the picture. Still, the images come from the real world and therefore evoke, as Rauschenberg's dealer, Leo Castelli, puts it, "something deeper, more visceral than pure optics...
...them gave Napoleon ceaseless trouble. Pauline, an apparent nymphomaniac, had herself sculpted in the nude by Canova, slept indiscriminately with ambassadors and tradesmen, and fostered the rumor that she was engaged in an incestuous affair with Napoleon himself. The brothers and sisters squabbled among themselves about whose titles took precedence and complained regularly to Napoleon about details of protocol at the court (Elisa and Caroline never forgave him for seating them on stools at one state reception when they felt their rank entitled them to arm chairs). Worst of all, Napoleon's addled brothers got the notion that they...
...trade a bag of shoes she had pilfered for more desirable loot that others carried. Two women dragged large boxes behind them. Said one to the other: "Let's get home before this stuff gets broken." The area of narrow three-story tenements was strewn with broken glass, nude mannequins, disabled cars, police and fire vehicles...