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...years ago in Olympia, Washington, two sisters, 18 and 20, began to talk, separately, about gross sexual abuse each said she had experienced as a child and had only recently begun to remember. Charges were filed against the girls' father, Paul Ingram, who seemed dazed and confused, but who denied them...
...Sharp Appetites" consists of three different approaches to the phenomenon of the female body in visual culture. "Fleshbags" is the most ambitious part of the exhibition because it spans the historical scope of the construction of female sexuality. Displays ranging from details of Botticelli's "Venus" to Manet's "Olympia" to Playboy cartoons remind the viewer that this is not just a criticism of a contemporary issue, but rather the problematic perceptions of the female body have been deeply imbedded and indoctrinated into social standards. The responsibility of art is a central issue; female nudes once considered the norm...
Riefenstahl, witty, athletic and argumentative at age 91, is best known for her "Triumph of the Will," a film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg, and "Olympia," a documentary film of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin...
Riefenstahl is also remembered for the critically acclaimed "Olympia," an exhaustive record of the 1936 Summer Olympics, which was revolutionary in its treatment of sports. Many of her innovations are still used today. It is fascinating to watch Riefenstahl describe some of her experiments, like underwater photography of diving events, and setting cameras aloft in balloons (Goodyear blimp, anyone...
...Hitler regime she assembled two short films about Nazi functions and officials. But it is her feature documentaries that even today make her noted and notorious. Triumph of the Will (1935), a record of the sixth Nazi Party Congress at Nuremberg, starred Adolf Hitler. The two-part Olympia (1938), a record of the 1936 Berlin Games, starred Jesse Owens, the black American runner...