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Article: Mixed messages: a group of museum and gallery shows prompts the author to reflect on precedents for - and alternatives to - current views of the body in art.(Report From Paris)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- May 1, 1995
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I am going to speak at length of my body. I am going to speak of it so much that it will seem to you, at first, I am forgetting the mind's share.
--Andre Gide, The Immoralist
I have been reading Gide for the first time, having missed his work during undergraduate European literature days. I have been reading Gide because of a small remark published in an interview with Raymond Hains, an important presence in French art since the 1950s and, once again, an artist whose work I heretofore had missed. In a fall season studded with larger and better-publicized monographic exhibitions (Poussin and Caillebotte at the Grand Palais, Schwitters at the Centre Pompidou, ...