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Compression fractures are often accompanied by ruptured spinal discs and torn muscles. Victims may spend as long as five months in a torso cast or in traction. Some face a lifetime of continuing pain or disability...
...sculptures are delicately crafted with a stern Gothic sensitivity for the grandeur of the solitary human form. Although his figures often appear blunt in their aloof individuality, the directness is modified by the lack of harsh edges. His surfaces are pleasing and receptive, especially the highly polished appearance of "Torso," whose edges are softened and very smooth. The softness is the redeeming quality in which we see a cautious hint of hope for human existence...
...power to transmit "reality" but the enchanting spectacle of his language. His inventiveness was phenomenal and contained surprising propositions for, and anticipations of the future. Flower Myth, 1918-with its squiggled symbols for plants and trees and chirpy bird flying across the red landscape of an equivocal torso that might be Mother Earth-is the ancestor of the flattened, wrinkled landscape-nudes, scrawled with graffiti, that Jean Dubuffet was to paint thirty years later. It is a syntax of fantasy, the color swelling and glowing, all heaviness gone. There was probably never an artist with less fearsomeness than Klee...
...book's opening scene, the boy feels honored that he has "joined the company of men." In another age, Munger might have been a typical American golden boy, son of a tire recapper and a tireless, depleted mother, himself a gas station attendant, possessed of a muscled torso and a solemn, black-haired girlfriend (later wife) who holds back her sex until he confesses his love. But in 1969, cruising with fellow loafers past drive-ins and hamburger stands, boxing a few stumblebums for the cash it pays, Ernie is merely another case of development arrested by outdated and neglected...
...EXHIBIT are examples of the artist-photographer who pictures the "nude" as an ideal form of art: Barbara Morgan's photo "Pregnant" (a pregnant woman's torso), if it had been placed next to a reproduction of Van Eyck's Eve from the Ghent Altarpiece, certainly would emphasize the classic form. So would John Brook's "Moon in Leo" if placed next to a similarly entwined Rodin couple. Next to Christine Enos' "Richard" (a man flanked by two statues of Greek goddesses) should have been placed sculpture representations of the Greek god-athlete-man. Goodwin Harding's "emulation...