depictions of nudity – Perry Nodelman

For a Spicy Experience, First Take the Pants Off

Here’s a little guessing game. This is a salt or pepper shaker: So what do you think its companion shaker might be? I suspect that most people would guess the other part of this pair would be another similarly doughy creature–possibly, in the light of the associations between salt and pepper and black and white,Continue reading “For a Spicy Experience, First Take the Pants Off”

Bath, Beneath, and Beyond

Continuing on with shaker sets that imply an invisible beneath, there is this pair: Once more, the shakers represent something that is standing in water, this time two bathers. We see only the top third or so of their bodies, but knowledge of the way things usually are allows us to assume that the expectablyContinue reading “Bath, Beneath, and Beyond”