Word: rabbit
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...Some people might keep a fish or a rabbit or a cat,” Joshua said. “But my father had to smuggle in strange and exotic animals as pets...
...first page of Lisa Randall’s “Warped Passages,” there is a cartoon of two babies in a crib. A casual flip through the book shows a rabbit dancing in front of a projector, several spinning spheres, and man in a falling elevator...
...This is where I’m going to be working next summer.” Fast forward eight months and 20 Italian A quizzes later. I know enough of the language to complete my biweekly “graphic novel” assignments that concern a rabbit named Bunny who goes to Italy to learn how to cook and to write about it (as rigorous as it is original), and I’m poised to return to Italy in August as an apprentice chef to a hotel in Umbria.But do I need to jump all the way across...
Nevertheless, few subjects escape the artist's bleak skepticism. Still lifes tend to comment on the transience of things, but Goya's piles of lifeless fish and game lend unexpected violence to this theme: the white fur of a rabbit's belly exposes the wound where it was shot; the blank eyes of a lamb's skull look disconsolately at its butchered torso. Equally unsettling, a large painting of The Taking of Christ is notable less for the sorrowful figure at its center than for the jeering, crazed mob that surrounds him. The same menacing irrationality appears in disturbing later...
...revealing too much of his sexuality in his work. “I wanted to know about things outside myself,” he says. He found his answers in inflatable objects. Blown-up lobsters and bunnies somehow connect Koons to the external world. For example, the rabbit that appears in so many of his works is a signifier for Playboy, masturbation, and the Easter Bunny, to name just a few. He feels that the layering of cultural meaning that he is able to employ through his use of inflatables makes his work more versatile. “The more...