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June 16, 2009
Mark W. Scala, ed. Paint Made Flesh Exh. cat. Nashville: Frist Center for the Visual Arts in association with Vanderbilt University Press, 2009. 160 pp.; 74 color ills.; 4 b/w ills. Paper $29.95 (9780826516220)

Exhibition schedule: Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, January 23–May 10, 2009; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, June 20–September 13, 2009; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, October 23, 2009–January 3, 2010

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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.58

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Daniel Richter. Duisen (2004). Oil on canvas. 106 1/4 x 137 3/4 in. Private collection. Courtesy of David Zwirner, New York, and Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin.

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In his introduction to the catalogue accompanying the exhibition Paint Made Flesh, curator Mark Scala writes that the show seeks to trace a history of “the depicted body as a metaphor for the relationship between self and society as it has changed throughout the decades following World War II” (1). It does so admirably, if incompletely, and without making the recalibrations to larger understandings of postwar painting that seem to be its latent promise. As...