There is something perversely irreverent about it, the innocent, naked doll smothered in transparent blue plastic.

She goes to touch the bottom but disgusted, tosses the naked doll behind her, across the room, and proceeds to throw powder puff at the instructor.

They scuttled away, little naked dolls.

A child, in the form of a doll, has a sword thrust between its legs; a tiny naked headless female doll is bent over and shot with a pistol.

I made her wait outside while I went in the shop and bought her what she wanted, a small, pink, naked doll, moulded from one piece of plastic.

Someplace things were coming to a head and here I was fiddling around with a naked doll, letting her wipe things right out of my mind.

The picture shows him on a sofa, all but buried under a swarm of the naked dolls - a horror movie in the making if ever there was one.

The cover photo - an image of a naked doll held up in front of a mirror - was taken for the album by photographer Cindy Sherman.

A couple of nice examples are on the wall at this show, plus a send-up of the tradition, David Levinthal's muzzy pictures of a reclining, naked doll.