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- David Schulman
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- "Naked People"
- Summary: All the reasons why artists use naked people in their work
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Review of Naked People
David Schulman
Posted on January 19, 2004 at 02:10 PM
Zippy editing and some great clips -- "... you can almost see a heartbeat ..." -- are the highlights of this lighthearted yet thoughtful feature on what we see (or don't see) when we see nudes. Shades of John Berger, and Deborah Tannen, and that statue at Justice whose modesty was restored by John Ashcroft.
The narrator lapses a bit when he pretends to know that the listener is having leering thoughts. (Sorry - not that kind of duck.) But these moments are very brief, and barely slow the momentum of an expertly produced piece. Toward the end there's some unexpected, exuberant use of music - and you have to smile. This piece would be much at home on a Studio 360 sort of show.