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...show demonstrates, however, is that art theory plus craft does not equal art. Each of Kupka's major works is hung so that it is prefaced by a group of his preparatory line and color studies. Too often, in the progression from the fluent immediacy of the crayon sketch to the lyrical color study to the painting, the art loses itself in an exercise, becomes stilted, studies. The line drawings for the "Girl with a Ball" (1907-8) reveal a great sensitivity to form, the color studies a highly developed Fauvist technique, in which an unrestricted palette expresses shape...
...more successful series culminates in "Planes by Colors: Large Nude" (1909-10). Here the simply conceived form of the reclining woman in the sketch is amplified by the free, expressive use of color--green highlights, purple-pink shade. The personality seen in the line is universalized by the abstraction of the color: the painting is a vibrant whole...
...Touch of Class, who claimed to be running a legitimate business, closed down after the city passed a massage-parlor law. Then he threatened to reopen as a photographic-arts studio. The city discovered it also had regulations covering photo studios, so Touch of Class is now a nude-sketch studio. Milwaukee is currently trying to pass restrictions on all "body studios." San Francisco operators metamorphosed their businesses from bottomless bars to topless restaurants, massage parlors and now nudie encounter groups. In once staid Des Moines, which has some 20 sex-service businesses, a ban on outcall massage produced...
...safe to say that The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the best book on bark canoes. It is part shop manual, part history, and part unforgettable-character sketch. The book also contains an account of a trip to the Maine woods that provides a dryly witty antidote to James Dickey's soggy macho saga Deliverance...
...sketch that raises the Harvard in-joke to a true comic art form comes from a surprising source in this student-written show--Paul Cantor, assistant professor of English. "Let's Make the Grade" is a game show hosted by a bouncy emcee named Sever Hall and featuring prizes like a year's supply of A papers and admission to a graduate school of your choice. The first contestant, one Mary Sue Literati, starts out trading her admission letter to Yale for the surprise behind Door Three--which turns out to be admission to a selective concentration, History and Literature...