Word: torsoed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gracefully wrought armor. But characteristically, the front right shoulder is cut away, revealing the back. "I've always been fascinated by armor," says Moore, "and by the idea of enclosing space. Armor holds the space rigid, unlike drapery . . ." Close to Greek form is a neatly modeled Draped Torso, which looks like a cosy sweater for Aphrodite...
...Louvre had another Amenhotep statue-headless-Bothmer swung into action like Sergeant Friday trying to identify a corpse. He trekked to Paris, compared the size and workmanship of the two pieces of sculpture. After long study, experts decided beyond doubt that the Boston head belonged to the Paris torso. Last week the results of Bothmer's artistic detective work were on view in the Boston Museum. Plaster casts of the body and head had been fitted together, forming a delicately detailed image of a firm-faced young king with a Mona Lisa smile, holding offerings for the gods. Amenhotep...
...lower center is a bloated, hog-faced cherub swilling strong drink (explains Grosz: "I come from a drinking family"). At his left, a fat-buttocked nude is grasped by a hand that protrudes from no body; below lies a soft, naked torso and legs, which Grosz says represents the memory of his mother, killed in a Berlin air raid. In the lower left, a demented soldier hobbles on a crutch, carrying his amputated left leg in the crook of his arm. That figure is a remembrance of the time Grosz spent in a mental military hospital during World...
...legs and two busy hands easily became a ballerina bending over to put on her tights. Said Colin: "I paint the things I consider essential. To me, women are merely subjects. A nice female breast has no greater artistic value than a ripe tomato, and a woman's torso is not necessarily more beautiful than a well-built guitar...
Texas Playboy Sheppard ("Abdullah") King, "tired of playing cat and mouse" with his Egyptian belly-dancing wife, Samia Gamal, announced that he was throwing her over for another torso-tosser named Nejla Ates, a 21-year-old Turk. After sparking Nejla between the acts in a Manhattan nightspot, Shep brayed happily: "She has everything-plus castanets." They would marry as soon as he could divorce Samia, who, he predicted, would "flip her lid" at the news. In far off Cairo, Samia got the news but played it cool: "He may want to know that I had a very disdainful smile...