Focus on The Kiss (Rodin sculpture) and analyze the Popular culture.
The Kiss is said to have been the influence for the song "Turn Of The Century", found on the 1977 release of "Going for the One" by the British band Yes.
The Kiss is figured into the plot of the All in the Family episode "Archie and The Kiss," where Archie Bunker tries to make his daughter, Gloria, give back a reproduction of the sculpture she had been given by the Bunkers' friend, Irene Lorenzo. Archie expresses his disgust over the morality of the sculpture and sexuality in artwork.
The statue is used for a Terry Gilliam animation in Monty Python's Flying Circus. The female extends her left leg straight out, and the male moves his right hand over it, covering holes with the fingers and playing her like an ocarina. The same statue was later shown briefly in the movie 12 Monkeys, also directed by Gilliam.
The Kiss was part of a side story in Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's debut novel The Nest (2016), where the sculpture is stolen from the rubble of ground zero after 9/11.
The local Lewes brewer, Harvey's Brewery, have brewed a beer named "Kiss", featuring a picture of The Kiss on its label, which is on sale in bottles and draught form around St Valentine's Day on 14 February.In January 2004, the work was the subject of Episode 3 of the BBC Wales documentary series The Private Life of a Masterpiece, broadcast on BBC Two.
Monty Python's Flying Circus BBC Wales 9/11 ground zero ocarina Going for the One Harvey's Brewery All in the Family The Nest The Private Life of a Masterpiece Lewes Terry Gilliam Yes BBC Two sculpture 12 Monkeys left