Kulchur 5, Arthur Freed
Kulchur 9, Larry Rivers
Kulchur 20, James Waring
Kulchur 17, Robert Indiana
Kulchur 15, Robert Rauschenberg
Kulchur 14, Joe Brainard
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mad with impatience like fantastic old bearded Whitman to clasp my body to the bodies I adore
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.
