Jeff Clark. Music and Suicide. NY: ...

Jeff Clark. Music and Suicide. NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004 80 pp $20

Egon Schiele's couple Women Crouching depicts its eponymous couple women indeed crouching against a formless, sickly virid background. The women are naked (Schiele may be the painter who mostly fully grasped the implications of Manet's Olympia, viz. the pornographic impulse implicit in all representational painting). They face the viewer with eerily distant expressions, akin to the dead twins in Kubrick's The Shining, and large patches of dirty furry brown appear where their vaginas should be. united can ...