Word: sensualism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such works as Girl with Mandolin, where the figure and background have been broken into sharp-edged, sculptural planes, with the mandolin and model's breast distorted to carry the viewer's eye around the bend, there is today a kind of elegance and even a sensual formalism...
...plastics of human beauty. What seems to intrigue us often is a sort of peeping-tom attitude, that seems to offer delight in a sort of pseudo-wickedness, yet is extremely embarrassed by acknowledgement of the physical facts. Clark refreshingly does not share this attitude nor disparage the sensual aspects of the art of the nude. "No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling...
...Proud and a Happy Mother, and a Family of Three, one of whom delightfully defied gravity in its mother's arms. In stone, he shaped a tender and telling Day Dreamer in white alabaster, a dark and moving image of Naomi and Ruth in lithium stone, a deeply sensual, semi-abstract Reflection in pink alabaster. In bronze, he achieved a rare sense of movement with his Dancing Mother. Happy Baby and Unicyclist. Whimsical and witty, all had the vigor and balance of circus performers; each in its own way celebrated Sculptor Gross's feeling for the beauty...
...adolescent subculture in America has James Dean and sensual hillbilly singers for its idols; it clothes its particular brace of complexes in motorcycle jackets, elaborate hair styles and sullenness...
...Philosophers need not deny the existence of an inner stream of consciousness," Stace continued. "Consciousness is not purely a bodily movement," and inner mental experience is as valid as sensual experience as an object of philosophical analysis, he said...