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  • He was clearly fixated on beautiful physiques as sexual objects, and he was extremely shrewd in judging exactly how far he could go – if I may paraphrase Jean Cocteau – in going too far, especially in his pictures of young, naked, handsome couples in their well-appointed bedrooms and baths.

    John Koch's Best Work Is With Naked Subjects 2002

  • He was clearly fixated on beautiful physiques as sexual objects, and he was extremely shrewd in judging exactly how far he could go – if I may paraphrase Jean Cocteau – in going too far, especially in his pictures of young, naked, handsome couples in their well-appointed bedrooms and baths.

    John Koch's Best Work Is With Naked Subjects 2002

  • During the two years that she ran the gallery, Guggenheim Jeune showcased artists such as Jean Cocteau, Jean Arps, Kandinksy (his first one man show in England), Yves Tanguy (with whom she had an affair), and Wolfgang Paalen.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

  • The case piqued the interest of intellectuals such as Jean Cocteau, and Jean-Paul Satre, who believed that the crime was evidence of a class struggle, the working class rising up against the bourgeoisie.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

  • He also became part of the Beat movement, spending the next decade shuttling between San Francisco and Los Angeles creating Semina, a limited-edition art magazine that mixed prose, poetry and art from contributors such as Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jean Cocteau.

    Tom Teicholz: Wallace Berman: The Aleph Male Tom Teicholz 2011

  • He also became part of the Beat movement, spending the next decade shuttling between San Francisco and Los Angeles creating Semina, a limited-edition art magazine that mixed prose, poetry and art from contributors such as Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jean Cocteau.

    Tom Teicholz: Wallace Berman: The Aleph Male Tom Teicholz 2011

  • Instead, exhibits include a handwritten musical score by Igor Stravinsky, Jean Cocteau 's letters, cubist sketches by Pablo Picasso, and studies that shed light on what was going on in Salvador Dal í 's complex mind.

    Teaching Chanel to China James T. Areddy 2011

  • He also became part of the Beat movement, spending the next decade shuttling between San Francisco and Los Angeles creating Semina, a limited-edition art magazine that mixed prose, poetry and art from contributors such as Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jean Cocteau.

    Tom Teicholz: Wallace Berman: The Aleph Male Tom Teicholz 2011

  • We watched in the darkened theater the films of Jean Cocteau, of Chantal Akerman, of James Bidgood.

    Ira Sachs: A New Community: Queer/Art/Mentorship Ira Sachs 2011

  • Following the success of his spooky live soundtrack to Jean Cocteau's avant-garde 1932 film The Blood Of A Poet last year, the former Siouxsie And The Banshees bassist embarks on a tour with another freshly rescored classic.

    This week's new film events 2012

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