Word: viscera
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...range from his famous screaming Popes and moldering businessmen to lumpish, bloated creatures that may huddle in the corner of a room, sprawl across a couch, or simply stare dumbly out of some indeterminate space. They are often close to being monsters, and sometimes they become great mounds of viscera. Bacon admits to being obsessed by death. "I look at a chop on a plate, and it means death to me," he says...
...that Dubuffet was out to destroy. He also wanted to jolt traditional ideas of time and space. If he painted a woman, she became all women, the archetype. Often she would have the appearance of a squooshy polyp who was not only a mass of flesh and viscera but also a piece of geology-a part of history, a part of the earth. As for scale, Dubuffet would have none of it. A painting could be both a vast landscape and at the same time a tiny patch of dust seen through a microscope. Nor was the beholder ever supposed...
...addition, Huxley commented, the Old Testament's fusion of the ideas of the mind and the body was intuitively correct. "They knew the meaning of the kidneys. In fact, modern psychology has discovered that viscera plays a very important part in our behavior...
...countrymen that Paul worried about; he had to crouch for cover in the midst of an abdominal operation as R.A.F. rocket-firing Typhoons attacked. Writes Paul: "All I could do was keep a firm hand pressed on a swab over the wound to prevent the viscera slipping out of the patient's abdomen...
...obvious: cuff links set with brightly colored, plastic-encased models of his stone-laden gall bladder or ulcer-ravaged duodenum. Creator of "The World's Sickest Looking Jewelry'' is Dr. Robert G. Zach, a Monroe, Wis. radiologist who is convinced, after years of peering at tangled viscera on X-ray plates, that beauty is not only all around him but inside him. Taking inspiration from the delicately twined tubes, sacs and ducts he photographed, Zach set to work with a dentist's drill and clear plastic, began passing out three-dimensional relief models of their innards...