Word: outflung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gesture, assuming form in a challengingly haphazard way. De Kooning's sculptures admittedly look regressive. They evoke memories of the European Expressionism of the 1950s-Dubuffet's turnip men and the familiar postwar imagery of the human figure as disaster area. Thus Figure XII, 1970, lying with outflung arms on a bronze-cast roof tile, obscurely suggests the traditional image of crucifixion even though it could just as easily be a sunbather. De Kooning's new work is a matter of symptom, rather than code; its contortions carry less meaning than one is apt to suppose...