Tom Wesselmann: The Great American Nude Michael Heizer provocatively blurring the lines between

provocatively blurring the lines between them

The exhibition was organized during the centennial of Rauschenberg’s birth and accompanied an exhibition of works by Marcel Duchamp that inaugurated the gallery’s new ground-floor space

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emphasizing the artist’s mastery of kaleidoscopic shifts while reiterating visual and referential relationships across discrete bodies of work

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Tom Wesselmann: The Great American Nude Michael Heizer provocatively blurring the lines betweenTom Wesselmann: The Great American Nude is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the artists most significant body of work. Made during the ascendancy of Pop art, the Great American Nudes (196173) combine sensual depictions of the female figure with references to art history and popular culture. In these large scale, sometimes multimedia paintings, Wesselmann developed an iconography that is distinctly contemporary and overtly American, with