© Duane Michals
Currently not on view
The Most Beautiful Part of a Man's Body,
1986
Duane Michals, born 1932, McKeesport, PA; active New York, NY
2018-263
More Context
<p>Seeing deeply what is in front of you is at the heart of Michals’s work. When he started writing on his photographs, it was his attempt to go beyond the image. “I had to write about all the things you couldn’t see,” he said. “The artist has to make a leap of faith to insight, otherwise it’s just description.”</p><p>The text reads: “I think it must be there / Where the torso sits on and into the hips / Those twin delineating curves / Feminine in grace, girdling the trunk / Guiding the eye downwards / To their intersection / the point of pleasure.”</p>
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Information
Title
The Most Beautiful Part of a Man's Body
Dates
1986
Maker
Medium
Gelatin silver print with handwritten text
Dimensions
sight: 23.5 × 25.1 cm (9 1/4 × 9 7/8 in.)
frame: 45.1 × 46.4 × 4.1 cm (17 3/4 × 18 1/4 × 1 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Duane E. Wilder, Class of 1951
Object Number
2018-263
The artist. Acquired by Duane E. Wilder (1929-2017); bequeathed to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2018.
