The controversial nature of the show, which extends to a work by Jake and Dinos Chapman, of girlish mannequins
with phalluses for noses and sexual orifices in all the wrong places, pleased many of the gallery - going public.
She scavenges a rowboat and chair with help from Donald Judd, paints them white, and layers
them with phalluses.
A central figure on the New York avant - garde scene, Kusama was famous for her delicately patterned abstract canvases, soft furniture
with phalluses, and happenings in which she painted naked participants with her now signature polka dots.
Whenever a tree incarnates the World Tree or when a spade is associated
with the phallus and agricultural work with the act of generation, for example, one could say that the immediate reality of these objects or actions «bursts» or «explodes» under the irruptive force of a more profound reality.
It is evident as well that the spade could not have been associated
with the phallus, nor agricultural work homologized to the sexual act before the discovery of agriculture.
Visually and linguistically conflating the idea of the hardware screw
with the phallus (screw, screwed, being screwed) Bernstein's screws were infamously censored from a 1974 exhibition at the Philadelphia Civic Center: «Women's Work — American Art 1974.»
The most famous among them is a figure
with a phallus - like nose, which wears a hat reminiscent of 1950s crime - stories.
Not exact matches
Even the women likewise, who worshiped Cybele, dressed as men, were fitted
with artificial
phalli / dildos, and played the part of men in the temple prostitution.
Instead of murals of Edelweiss, in Bhutan they have murals of
phalli, each delicately decorated
with bows and ribbons... for in Buddhist Bhutan, the phallic symbol is one of good luck and prosperity.
«This is intriguing and a bit counter-intuitive because a long
phallus prolongs copulation, and forced copulations characteristic to species
with a large
phallus should further promote virus transfer,» says Hegyi.
During copulation, the male stabs the female's abdomen
with his sharp
phallus, bypassing her reproductive tract and injecting sperm directly into her body.
If he could wipe all the cells from the
phallus, or any other organ, he could then reseed it
with cells taken directly from the intended recipient, virtually eliminating the possibility of an immune rejection.
Another potent pill that keeps you hard, male extra is made
with niacin, zinc and L - arginine acid, ingredients that are essential in increasing the size of your blood vessels and in this way increasing the length and hardness of your dick since more blood is pumped into your
phallus.
If self - sacrifice is the ultimate show of faith, then a recurrent fantasy sequence in which Julian submits to being figuratively castrated by a man
with a blade (whom we later discover to be Chang) is a gratuitous sign of his enslavement to the maternal
phallus.
The only exception is The Last Stand, which features a claymation Schwarzenegger - shaped monstrosity shooting off a belt - fed
phallus at the audience while Tank Girl looks on
with glee.
The most spiritual - seekers seem to be confusing the human male sex organ - lenga [penis /
phallus] and human female sex organ - yonee [vagina]
with the jyoteerlenga [lenga of light] and the sarvajoteeryonee [yonee of light] by saying that the lenga in shevaalayas represent the male sex organ...!
Complete
with narration and tips from a personal favourite villian and / or
phallus.
This summer, the object - a
phallus combined
with a rough - hewn sword handle - was scaled - up to create a giant concrete sculpture which is currently on view upstairs at Whitechapel Gallery.
Nicole Eisenman's sculpture defaced
with swastika in Munster Sketch for a Fountain, Nicole Eisenman's contribution to this year's Skulptur Projekte Münster, has been defaced
with images including a swastika and a
phallus.
Zachary Leener's ceramic sculptures, drawn from observation, duplicate, castrate, and merge
phalluses, limbs, and orifices
with knobs and handles to create abstract table - top works.
They were soon followed by her installations made from found objects covered
with stuffed, sometimes dotted
phalluses, to which she soon added mirrors, and by the well - known orgy - like Happenings (and their films) whose participants were painted
with dots.
It replaces the suggestive
phalluses with innocent fun.
They culminate in «The Third Love Painting» (1960) in which a large
phallus - figure topped
with black hairs contains a small block of hand - lettered text: the closing lines of a poem by Walt Whitman about his happiness while lying beside his sleeping lover, «under the same cover in the cool night.»
As
with Yinka Shonibare's celebrated work on the Fourth Plinth, «Nelson's Ship in a Bottle», «Kaleidoscope» reclaims an object from a familiar British tradition and subverts it through the bold use of batik patterns and the transformation of the shape into that of a
phallus.
Described by Yinka as «a piece that playfully explores gender stereotypes and power relations», it is a kaleidoscope in the shape of a
phallus,
with the body beautifully decorated in the Dutch wax batik patterns Yinka is known for, and the head made of highly polished brass.
It is a kaleidoscope in the shape of a
phallus,
with the body beautifully decorated in the Dutch wax batik patterns the artist is known for, and the head made of highly polished brass.
Tribe uses constructed steel to make sculptures that have a feeling of totemic obsession and pre-industrial roughness, from tiny amulets formed of bolts and other metal scraps to a giant bent
phallus with two heads.
In his cube series, small boxes contain decaying cocoons and shells revealing half - living forms — often replica limbs, detached
phalli or papier - mâché organs — that merge
with man - made items.
«The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today,» at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, through November 1, moma.org This stunner, organized by MoMA photography curator Roxana Marcoci, may be the surprise star of the summer, assembling dozens of works that document other pieces, from Lee Friedlander's snapshots of public monuments to Robert Mapplethorpe's iconic portrait of the late Louise Bourgeois
with a large sculptural
phallus tucked under her arm.
Much of Sarah Lucas's British pavilion was painted as cream yellow as her catalogue's tote bag and the macho, Franz Westian, pretzel - twisted bronze
phallus with testicle sacs and legs that stood at the entrance and basically gave the finger to all comers.
Artist Barbara Wagner claims that Benglis shows that even
with the appropriation of the
phallus as a Freudian sign of power, it does not cover her female identity and still emphasizes a female inferiority.
As
with Shonibare's celebrated work on the Fourth Plinth, «Nelson's Ship in a Bottle», «Kaleidoscope» reclaims an object from a familiar British tradition and subverts it through the bold use of batik patterns and by transforming the shape into that of a
phallus.
«Kaleidoscope» is a multiple by Yinka Shonibare MBE that playfully explores gender stereotypes and power relations: a kaleidoscope in the shape of a
phallus,
with the body beautifully decorated in the Dutch wax batik patterns the artist is known for, and the head made of highly polished brass.
They depict raffish black superheroes, blaxploitation film heroines and a brown clown - faced
phallus — curvaceous characters
with layers of dots, glitter - strewn resin and exotic backdrops — especially the radiating loops behind the goddesslike «She.»
The oval form at the centre of the bottom edge of the frame and the W shape at the top represent in stylised form the testicles of the god and the buttocks of the consort
with the penetrating
phallus.
On another wall hang large waxy paintings made
with latex depicting
phalluses and sexual acts between men.
Penis (2006), an anatomically correct, crisply drawn close - up of the body part, offers an upending of Gustave Courbet's Origin of the World (1866), an unblinking look at the male
phallus that is both real and theatrical, perversely clinical but
with an undertone of heat, appealing to the voyeur — and exhibitionist — in all of us.
But the most startling display may be the one in his living room: He has mixed works from his approximately 200 - piece collection — a comically large bright pink rubber
phallus by Sarah Lucas; unusual drawings by Paul Thek in yellow Plexiglas frames; a heavy, stone - patterned gray canvas by Peter Halley; an upright cannon by Valentin Carron; an array of silk screens by the reclusive Cady Noland —
with a resin prototype of his first tree.
In her youth she grappled
with her anxieties by drawing dog - chewed vaginas... as a woman she created soft
phallus puppets in heaping quantities.
Cruz examines these important concepts through dramatic tonal shifts that range from pastel to darkened shades of grey that render sinewy and supple male forms
with exposed flaccid
phalluses.
Some compare them to architecture, or to ancient monuments, while others read them as
phalluses and wombs, which, along
with the pictures» somber palette, might suggest the cycle of life and death.
AA Bronson: Queer Vitrine 1, 2016 at Maureen Paley, London (detail) Wood and glass custom vitrine containing assorted found mail, zines, collages, drawings (watercolour on paper) of various dimensions, polaroid photographs, and used envelopes, together
with voodoo doll (AA Bronson's Pucci underwear, string, wool, and various hidden elements), Reindeer bone wrapped in a cotton handkerchief, bamboo and cotton ritual objects, Himalayan rope incense in a plastic and paper package, amber on cotton string, pyrite cubic crystals, glass beads, Thai carved bone
phallus and steel curved piercing barbell.
Between 1983 and 1990, she finished the novels The Hustler's Grotto of Christopher Street (1983), The Burning of St Mark's Church (1985), Between Heaven and Earth (1988), Woodstock
Phallus Cutter (1988), Aching Chandelier (1989), Double Suicide at Sakuragazuka (1989), and Angels in Cape Cod (1990), alongside several issues of the magazine S&M Sniper in collaboration
with photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.
Titled «To Wit,» the show dispenses aphorisms along
with the usual athletes, comic - strip figures, talking
phalluses and other stock characters from the Pettibon universe.
The exhibition couples images of the
phallus — the socially approved symbol of male power —
with images of the flesh — the often censored penis that our society carefully regulates.
Yinka Shonibare MBE's Kaleidoscope playfully explores gender stereotypes and power relations: a kaleidoscope in the shape of a
phallus,
with the body beautifully decorated in the Dutch wax batik patterns the artist is known for, and the head made of highly polished brass.
The object — a
phallus combined
with a rough - hewn sword handle — was scaled - up to create a giant concrete sculpture.
These works also explore gender issues
with a literal dialogue between the angry cunt and the
phallus.
The book traces the development of several important bodies of work, from the Penetralia sequence begun in 2008, a series of plaster and fiberglass sculptures of totemic pink
phalluses, to the recent series of NUDS sculptures, which consist of nylon tights stuffed
with fluff and fashioned into ambiguous biomorphic forms, redolent of Louise Bourgeois.
With a tip of his hat to Eric Miller, who brought the story to his attention, Volokh Conspiracy blogfather Eugene Volokh takes on the story of two Laramie, Wyo., men who are «facing obscenity charges for allegedly building a snow sculpture of a
phallus in their front yard.»