Word: self-portrait
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...cover image, TIME invited Senator Baker, an enthusiastic amateur photographer, to try his hand at a self-portrait. At first reluctant, Baker fell in with the idea after MacNeil mentioned some people who have had self-portraits on TIME'S cover-including Marc Chagall, Thomas Hart Benton and James Thurber. "What company to be in!" said Baker. TIME'S Washington Bureau then dispatched Photographer Roddey Mims to Baker's home town of Huntsville, Tenn., to help set up the shooting. Armed with tripod and timer, the Senator went through twelve rolls of Kodak Ektachrome ASA-64 film...
...silence of dusk. It contracts the near and the far, enchanting one's sense of space. The early De Chiricos are full of such effects. Et quid amabo nisi quodaenigma es/?(What shall I love if not the enigma?)-this question, inscribed by the young artist on his self-portrait in 1911, is their subtext...
...artist turning, at midcareer, away from modernist fragmentation. Solid, chunky, driven, greedy: these adjectives apply to Kitaj's appropriation of the world-particularly the bodies of women-with line. Sometimes his egotism goes out of control or his taste fails him, or both, as in an absurdly paranoid self-portrait that looks like Jack Nicholson fried on acid. But when confronted with the posed model, in The Waitress or his various nude studies, Kitaj draws better than almost anyone else alive, taking on all the expressive and factual responsibilities of depiction and carrying most of them through...
...knobby knees and boots like Uccello horseshoes, those bloodshot cyclopean eyes and gut piles of pink carcasses acquired, despite their comic-strip mannerisms of drawing, a degree of pessimism that verged on the tragic. Guston's Head and Bottle, 1975, with its profile of a face (a self-portrait?) violently compressed into an eye and a chin prickled with a bum's gray stubble, is absurd in a sense; but the conviction with which Guston carries it off is worrisome and angry, full of a Celine-like misery...
Their survey, to be published by Basic Books in September under the title The Adolescent: A Psychological Self-Portrait, also finds that girls feel worse about their bodies than boys and are less open to sexual feelings. In both decades, the majority of adolescents seemed to be unafraid of sex, but the second group seemed no more sexually liberated than the first. In the 1960s, fewer than one often felt "sexually way behind" other youngsters, and by the 1970s more than one of five felt that way. The authors are not sure why the '70s youngsters scored lower than...