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A firestorm of feminist controversy already surrounds some of these works--one side contends that these are refreshingly de-idealized nudes, the other side responds that the unusual poses and aggressive use of pastel are further degradations of women--but you wouldn't know it from the placid audio tour, or from the printed "exhibition guide" that replaces the usual wall panels.
As reports about the campus culture wars go, the Chicago story is refreshingly man-bites-dog.
The marriage of counterculture and capitalism is hardly a new subject, but Frank does provide a refreshingly unsentimental look at it.
Instead you will find friendly people who, in spite of a 12-month season that for decades has deposited tourists from wealthier nations on their shores, are refreshingly hospitable.
Refreshingly, this is one of the few works that does not contain references to other art genres, but jousts with the concept of the image itself, again a reflection of nothing at all.