Danger Came Smiling/All About Love

The powerful art of Linder and Mickalene Thomas, on display at London's South Bank.

The image still has the power to shock, almost five decades later. A tanned white female nude, proportionately correct to normative male desires, her chest oily, a full bush both revealed and yet hiding below, arms raised above the head as if dancing naked. Except, where that head should be revealing some emotion there is instead a clothing iron; where …