Consider the neo-classical body, the ideal figure that conveyed a measure of Beauty through texture, proportion and line. That body seems distant to us now, its formal role taken up and elaborated in this century by abstract art.

Cathy de Monchaux Swallow 1996 hand-colored photocopy on film, steel, enamel, ribbon 118 x 189 x 2 in

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