Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and ArtistsThe most controversial art critic in America and author of the bestselling The Fatal Shore looks with love and loathing, wit and authority, at art, artists, and the art world-from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo. -- Back cover. |
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Page 130
... body can dis- play , found its way into his oeuvre . Rodin had very few inhibitions ; flesh , both his own and others ' , was a source of inexhaustible fascination to him , and the erotic fury one often senses in his squeezing and ...
... body can dis- play , found its way into his oeuvre . Rodin had very few inhibitions ; flesh , both his own and others ' , was a source of inexhaustible fascination to him , and the erotic fury one often senses in his squeezing and ...
Page 209
... body . They convey forceful impressions of posture , gesture and attitude . Smith was not in the business of making large iron dolls , and it may be , as various critics have pointed out , that the usual verticality of his sculptures ...
... body . They convey forceful impressions of posture , gesture and attitude . Smith was not in the business of making large iron dolls , and it may be , as various critics have pointed out , that the usual verticality of his sculptures ...
Page 216
... bodies rarely connect well , and have Noli me tangere written all over them . Sometimes his lumpish ladies on the beach ... body , its organic relationship of part to part , its accessibility to touch . This ability to trans- late the ...
... bodies rarely connect well , and have Noli me tangere written all over them . Sometimes his lumpish ladies on the beach ... body , its organic relationship of part to part , its accessibility to touch . This ability to trans- late the ...
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