Word: pleasureless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...illustration of the line "playboys who live each hour" (from the poem "The Voyage") two figures make love. They are flat pleasureless forms against an utterly bleak background. They lie on a black band which spans the middle of the page like blacktop crossing a desert. Nolan connects the bodies into the hopelessness of this world by continuing the brushstrokes of the black across their forms. There is no clarity or vitality in their bodies or their...
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