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L’immagine è sessualmente esplicita, nonostante il trattamento della foto. Come nota Rick<br />

McGrath, l’accento è sul rapporto in termini geometrici tra le due pareti – realtà e fiction. 50<br />

50 «Th<strong>is</strong> ad <strong>is</strong> another v<strong>is</strong>ual-dominant piece, featuring the header, in full reverse, right above a transported female face.<br />

Reproduced in high contrast black and white, the woman’s abstracted hand reveals the source of her pleasure, but her<br />

thrown-back head reveals the conceptual bas<strong>is</strong> of onan<strong>is</strong>mic [sic] sex. […] <strong>The</strong> most explicitly ‘sexy’ of the series,<br />

Angle introduces the ‘little death’ of a ‘happy ending’, emphasizing in geometric terms the relationship between the two<br />

walls of reality and fiction and how they can be conceptualized by the imagination into memory and desire.» Rick Mc<br />

Grath, “’What exactly <strong>is</strong> he trying to sell?’: J. G. Ballard’s Adventures in Advert<strong>is</strong>ing, part 1”, 2009<br />

(http://www.ballardian.com/ballards-adventures-in-advert<strong>is</strong>ing-1) [Ultima v<strong>is</strong>ita 16/05/2011].<br />

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