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Part Coquette, Part Monster

Part Coquette, Part Monster It's not clear precisely where she got that picture of a different arm, which in the montage becomes a giant phallus. Butthe impossible and very funny result was ... part coquette, part monster, a parody of the cliche of woman as sex object, elevated from a cleverjoke into art by the elegant twist [she] gives to the ridiculous body. Michael Kimmelman on Hannah Hock, the German dadaist, New York Times Mother and child, a montage of rage and humor: Breast(s) the graceful center of the installation: a rectangular panel that twirls and quivers while the whole thing trembles continuously. Cranes, a part of the high backdrop, in the fields like brown kites dropped, take off eventually as solace; their wings unfold ... silver hint of the Platte River at the right corner. To pull yourself up bythe teeth, clamp on the near bar, a standard tube of metal, a chrome bit. Lift up over the shivering landscape until you pop through, into vision, the bluevoid with clouds backlit O'Keefe entered and later, point fixed suddenly, a bone china cup, the real thing, held up between your fingers and the window. Oh, Lord, to surrender terror now abruptly, to lift free! 32 ...