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Intimate Distance

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Intimate Distance
A zone of space—ranging from intimate contact to less than an arm’s length—in which people operate under specific social situations

intimate distance
Psychology A zone of space ranging from intimate contact to less than an arm's length in which people operate under specific social situations. See Proxemics. Cf Personal distance, Public distance, Social distance.


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Small wooden tables are set at an intimate distance from one another on two floors.
The work reveals the same embodied angst and intensity found in Kiki Smith and Louise Bourgeois as well as early Ed Kienholz, and it stirs the sense of disorientation evoked by Duchamp's Etant Donnes and the odd intimate distance of Andy Warhol, who spoke of wanting to be a machine and had a hand in the creation of his own animatronic portrait, which recently came out of the mothballs to be sold by its developer to a private collector.
In films like La Femme de l'hotel (1984), A corps perdu (1988), Movements du desir (1994) and Emporte-moi (1999) her characters are ennobled by its presence, examined at close, intimate distance, but explored only with their seeming accord, at their pace, and with respect.
 
 
 
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