ART: BARRIER NUDES; A Mixed Message in Levon Parian's Iconography.
In Levon Parian's photographic oeuvre of nearly a decade single can find three separate notwithstanding related bodies of work: the commercial, the stark nakeds and those that deal with the "Armenian experience." The ambiguous and problematic relations that exist among these different groupings raise interesting questions related to the challenges confronting many third generation Diaspora artists who are attempting to articulate their have a title to unique esthetic vocabulary. But the unresolv collective memory of
