Word: francesca
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...female identity in photography. Curator Julien Tomasello rightly chose to include a single piece (or series) by each of the seven artists represented, making the show an intimate dialogue between the pieces. Among the four men and three women photographers are two of my favorites, David Hilliard and Francesca Woodman. Also represented is Linn Underhill, who uses herself as her own model. She dresses up to look like a debonair of the late '40s, reversing the concept of drag queen to drag king. A portrait of a doll leg by David Levinthal, who takes large-format Polaroids of collectable fetish...
...then there's the girl with the shuttlecock, that magical little refugee from a Piero della Francesca, all inwardness as she contemplates the sneak serve she is about to make. The painting's visual rhymes are delicious. Each feather of the shuttlecock, for instance, repeats some element of her appearance. White feathers repeat the white of her apron; a blue feather picks up the blue of her ribbon; a pink feather, the color of her cheek. It is as perfectly made as any sonnet. It makes you realize what rewards can flow from Chardin's desire to link the appearance...
That standard has also been upheld in New Jersey, where Francesca and Antonio Pacelli battled over the validity of their postnuptial agreement. They had been married 10 years in 1985, when, she says, he told her to choose between divorce and signing a postnup. Under the agreement, she was to be awarded $500,000 and half of a $1 million summer home if they divorced. But when Pacelli, a developer, filed for divorce in 1996, his wife argued that she was entitled to more of his fortune, which had increased from $5 million to $11 million, and she sued...
...voluntary is a postnuptial agreement? A person whose betrothed proposes an unfair prenuptial agreement can walk away from the engagement. But the spouse who is asked to sign a postnup has invested financially and emotionally in the union and may have children to think about. Francesca Pacelli says she signed the postnup agreement "because I didn't want my sons to grow up without a father." McCaughey Ross has claimed that her husband forced her to sign the postnuptial agreement in return for a financial contribution to keep her campaign for Governor afloat. "My reaction was utter disbelief," she says...
...There are loads of people who I love: Jan van Eyck, Uccello, Piero della Francesca. They're usually painters rather than sculptors, curiously enough. But, I suppose, writers possibly more. I think literature is very inspiring...