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Drawing in Contemporary Art, Spring 2018

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Nancy Spero and the “Carnivalesque”

Nancy Spero and the “Carnivalesque”

By Caitlin Green The grace of their bodies confronts these political obscenities. -Nancy Spero [1] Nancy Spero’s The Acrobats (Fig. 1) of 1990 is a drawing installation comprised of seven vertical panels of paper. The first five panels consist of repetitive

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