Bill Pusztai

Embodying the allusive muses, this quartet of classically composed nudes is a statement about statements, art about sex, soft-core porn about literature, and homage to one of the unsung heroes of culture and gender theory.

Sententia: a single, pithy statement of general wisdom.
Metaphor: compares two things by speaking of one in terms of the other.
Synecdoche: a metaphor in which the part stands for the whole.
Erotesis: a rhetorical question not explicitly answered because it is obvious what answer is expected.
paraphrased from:
A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
by Robert A. Harris

Northrop Frye proposed using the cardinal directions as an organising principle for thinking about cultural constructs and the myths we live by.
North: Logos, the intelligible world
East: Nous, the universal mind
South: Thanatos, death
West: Nomos, law or tradition.
for more info see:
Northrop Frye’s Writings On the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
by Northrop Frye, Imre Salusinszky, and Robert D. Denham

Bill Pusztai, © 2008
South: Synechdoche
Piezographic on archival paper
24 x 18 in. framed