July 2012
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What it feels like to be looked at
Barbara Kruger, Your Gaze Hits The Side Of My Face, 1981
Barbara Kruger, Untitled/We have received orders not to move, 1982
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Angelo Batti (II)
Black (Stockings) Monday’s not over yet! Here are two more nudes in black stockings by Angelo Batti.
Angelo Batti (I)
This is a photograph of a model and the painter Angelo Batti (b. 1933), in a studio in Argentina. On the upper right, partially obscured by the model’s head, is a painting of a naked woman in black stockings. The background and position of the legs isn’t quite right, but it looks very much like Batti’s painting Luce Indiscreta:
The stockings are more opaque, though, even...
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“This is a film about the role of the spectator in the room.”
– Serge Daney in a 1982 Les Cahiers du Cinema review of Jackie Raynal’s Deux Fois. A still from the film appeared earlier today in honor of Black (Stockings) Monday!
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