Lena Dunham, Christina’s World and the Body Andrew Wyeth Hid

Lena Dunham, Christina’s World and the Body Andrew Wyeth Hid

The most reproduced woman in American painting has her back to us. In Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World, a figure lies in a bleached field, propped on two thin arms, her gaze fixed on a gray farmhouse she cannot walk to. When Lena Dunham lowered herself into that same Maine grass and posted the picture, she joined a quiet procession of visitors who have learned the pose by heart. What almost none of them stops to ask is what the pose is actually …