However, Brown's chaotic, reclining nude takes from de Kooning's work the sense of forms appearing within abstraction, and it is oddly exhilarating to watch the faces and
bodies of cats emerge and recede in the painting as one looks at it.
Fortunately for Goitein and Suit, such technology was
emerging: computed axial tomography (
CAT) scanners, which could produce cross-sectional images, or «slices,»
of the inside
of the
body.