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poseuse

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Noun1.poseuse - a woman poseur
poser, poseur - a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not


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In his harsh fictional caricature of Gray as "Katrina van Tassel Grant," poseuse extraordinaire of I Married a Communist, Philip Roth (real-life ex-husband of Gray's best friend, Claire Bloom) assailed Gray's "moral ambition.
The contribution of Hans Haacke, another institutional-critique mainstay, expands on this recognition by documenting, with unblinking objectivity, the extraordinary volatility in social, organizational, and fiduciary arrangements entailed in the survival of only one modest painting: Seurat's Les Poseuses (Small version).
 
 
 
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