Plaster figures showing women’s bodies as they would have appeared had they fit into Western clothing during four points in fashion history (1875, 1904, 1913, and the 1920s), designed by Bernard Rudofsky and sculpted by Costantino Nivola, as presented in the exhibition Are Clothes Modern? at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
In Rudofsky’s words: “Our civilization keeps alive the fascination for monsters and, at the same time expresses disdain for the normally built human body. The female figure is redesigned from time to time, like furniture or automobile bodies.”
Pigeon on the head of a guy riding a drooling water worm beast fountain. Saw this guy hanging out in Maspalomas, Gran Canaria. I do like to see a pigeon on the head of a statue.
Paige Bradley created one of the most striking sculptures I’ve seen in recent times. Her masterpiece, entitled Expansion, is a beautiful woman seeking inner piece but fractured and bleeding with light. “From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: a social security number, a gender, a race, a profession,” says Bradley. “I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?”
This sculpture is by Marco d’Agrate, 1562 (Duomo cathedral, Milan-Italy)
This is a sculpture of St. Bartholomew who was an Apostle that was said to be skinned alive. If you look closely you will notice that his robe is actually not a robe at all, but his skin.
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