Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover on espionage, we chose a collage by Dennis Wheeler that incorporates a stylized face and some of the dark profession's paraphernalia. One of Wheeler's best remembered contributions was for the 1969 cover "The Sex Explosion." He used a color photograph of a nude couple seen behind a giant, zippered fig leaf...
Leslie Krims, seen recently in MIT's Being Without Clothes Show, raises the status of mutated reality from repulsion to absurd insight. A nude woman pasted with snapshots of her son sits in the corner, two teenage nudes whose bosoms become the reiteration of targets on deer posters covering the wall, a dwarf couple are dwarfed by their collie and a grey, grainy Christmas tree-we are asked to look without judging but to acknowledge the absurdity of sloping floors and stunted growth...
Clark, who is the author of many books on art history including The Gothic Revival and The Nude, said that ours is an age of iconophobia, in which representational art is out and abstract...
Finally she seats you on a long bench-like couch, surrounded by potted plastic palms and the kind of pastel spotlights that most Hollywood apartments have only on the outside, underneath what you take must be a self-portrait of herself in the nude...
Such etchings sold, and thus encouraged, Hopper began to paint oils again and experiment with watercolors. He was also drawing from the nude at the Whitney Studio Club in Manhattan. The works of this period show he was a good draftsman who could depict a naked woman with an earthy sensuousness that Renoir might have approved. In the early '20s on a trip back to the New York School of Art, he became interested in Art Student Josephine Verstille Nivison, a small, vivid, thirtyish woman whose volubility and quick wit were the exact opposite of Hopper's quiet...