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The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist at her most outlandish - profane, eccentric, even a little mad - is at least as disquieting a figure.

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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
Author
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Psychologist
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The Bronx
New York City
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