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Why there’s more to Man Ray’s iconic nude Le Violon d’Ingres than it seems

In Ingres's La Grande Odalisque, 1814, a lounging woman's absurdly elongated lumbar was lampooned by critics for its anatomical illogic. So severely has the artist taffy tugged his subject's backbone, medical scholars have since estimated that she has been given...

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