Kulchur 5, Arthur Freed
Kulchur 9, Larry Rivers
Kulchur 20, James Waring
Kulchur 17, Robert Indiana
Kulchur 15, Robert Rauschenberg
Kulchur 14, Joe Brainard
found here
Kulchur 5, Arthur Freed
Kulchur 9, Larry Rivers
Kulchur 20, James Waring
Kulchur 17, Robert Indiana
Kulchur 15, Robert Rauschenberg
Kulchur 14, Joe Brainard
found here
Wynn Chamberlain, part two:
Poets Dressed and Undressed (1964)
Joe Brainard, Frank O’Hara, Joe LeSueur and Frank Lima (standing).
Allen Ginsberg, writing in the catalogue for a show featuring the paintings:
Why am I interested in seeing myself naked? Because for years I thought I was ugly. I still do, but I no longer look at myself through my own eyes, I look out – my eyes look outward at my Desire, and I reach out to touch the bodies I love without fear that I’ll be rejected because I’m ugly. Because I don’t feel ugly now, I feel me – more than that, I feel desirous, longing, lost; mad with impatience like fantastic old bearded Whitman to clasp my body to the bodies I adore. So I’m interested in nakedness, I love my old loves’ nakedness. I love anyone’s nakedness that expresses their acceptance of being born in this body, in this flesh, on this planet that will die … So Chamberlain has painted every body naked – modern Joves, Ganymedes, Aphrodities, etc., if you want a tradition – modern friends as they really are to themselves with their naked babies lifted in triumph on bacchic friends’ shoulders stepping forth from the picture toward society; happy, victorious, still alive, photographic, fleshy, truthful to their own birth without clothes.