The Disfigured Nude

Colour Me Dead - Chapter 8

How the body is repositioned, contorted, reshaped, reconstituted

(i) Twisting & Flattening

1. 2.

3. 4. 5.

(ii) Slashing & Cracking

6. 7. 8.

9. 10.

11. 12. 13.

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(iii) Melting & Dripping

15. 16. 17.

18. 19. 20.

21. 22. 23.

1. Bartholomeus Spranger’s Angelica And Medoro (1580)
2. Charles Bell’s Opisthotonus in a Patient Suffering from Tetanus (1809)
3. Théodore Géricault’s Shipwreck (1817-1818)
4. Auguste Rodin’s Nude Female Figure (1900 c)
5. George Daoud Corm’s Woman Seated On A Bed (1920)

6. Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending A Staircase (1911)
7. Umberto Boccioni’s Unique Forms of Continuity (1913)
8. Otto Dix’s Three Wenches (1926)
9. Otto Dix’s Vanitas (Youth & Old Age) (1932)
10. Pablo Picasso’s Young Girl Reading a Book on the Beach (1937)
11. Alberto Giacometti’s Woman With Her Throat Cut (1931)
12. Alberto Giacometti’s Walking Woman (1932-1934)
13. Rudolph Schlichter’s Lustmord (1924)
14. Andre Kertesz’s Distortion No.38 (1933)

15. Dorothea Tanning’s Sleeping Nude (1954)
16. Willem De Kooning’s Woman I (1951)
17. Hans Arp’s Classical Sculpture (1960)
18. Francis Bacon’s Portrait Of Henrietta Moraes (1963)
19. Peter Saul’s De Kooning’s Woman Riding A Bicycle (1977)
20. Louise Bourgeois’ Spiral Woman (1984)
21. Joel-Peter Witkin’s Woman On A Table (1987)
22. Jenny Saville’s Plan (1993)
23. Erwin Olaf’s Mature: Cindy C 75 (1998)