Comments on: Masculinity and Sport, Nineteenth-Century Edition http://lacma.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/masculinity-and-sport-nineteenth-century-edition/ Fri, 17 May 2013 06:00:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Contemporary Art http://lacma.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/masculinity-and-sport-nineteenth-century-edition/#comment-96 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:00:52 +0000 http://lacma.wordpress.com/?p=1366#comment-96 Eakin’s Wrestlers are so strange because they look so still. It’s as if they’re holding each other rather than straining against each other. They’re calm in the way fashion models are calm.
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]]> By: Tyler Green http://lacma.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/masculinity-and-sport-nineteenth-century-edition/#comment-92 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:49:49 +0000 http://lacma.wordpress.com/?p=1366#comment-92 Hmmm maybe not elongated. Maybe lanky. OK, I’m going back to bed.

]]> By: Tyler Green http://lacma.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/masculinity-and-sport-nineteenth-century-edition/#comment-91 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:47:26 +0000 http://lacma.wordpress.com/?p=1366#comment-91 The Eakins has the elongated-limbs intensity of Bellows’ boxers. (Speaking of which, I believe the NGA has a Bellows show coming up in a year or two.)

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