AtD, where the theme of spying begins in it.

[Mark Kohut]

With Mr. Richly Resonant Pynchon, I definitely think that scene alludes to sixties 'free love' openness, to hippie back-to-nature freedoms as
well------again, for her....
 
Not him I say again and reminding that P uses the metaphor of "like a sharpshooter" later to describe picture-taking. 
 
From: barbie gaze <barbiegaze at gmail.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: AtD, where the theme of spying begins in it.

As usual, I'm problee juss way wrong on this, again, and I'm not very studied in the period, more a Jacksonian/American Renaissance Romantic type gal, but....I wuz struck by the idea that Pynchon, who has a good knowledge of photo and film, and painting as well, and is keen to mix in the genres, might be looking at our times more than, say, Emersons (although I much appreciate Mark K's readin of the eyeball), and is doing so with allusions to the period's setting so allusions to the free love free art movement and the Social censorships sweeping East to West. So, naked eyeball blinded by the light. 

The artistic freedom of the classical world that Eakins strove to bring to life in his academic programs at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (and in his Arcadian paintings) also appears as an important element in many of his nude studies with the camera. These photographs, far more than the paintings, celebrate the male physique; even today, more than a century after their creation, their unabashed frontal nudity still has the power to shock contemporary eyes.

Department of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art  
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/eaph/hd_eaph.htm 
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:36 AM, barbie gaze <barbiegaze at gmail.com> wrote: 
And his works won awards at the White City Expo, this, despite the fact that he was run out of the East for taking photographs of people in the nude; he was a teacher and an important inovator in photography and film. He was a friend to Walt Whitman and many a romantic, though, as you noted, he was something of an anti-romantic artist. 
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>On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:06 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote: 
>Thomas Eakins should not be the subject of literrary converse, except for pynchon.
>>Eakins was at the vanguard of Moderism.  He was also a great painter. 
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