Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, the show has many distressing disappointments. Calder, the grand Yankee sculptor whose works have for so long been characterized by their steady high quality, exhibits three mobiles but only one of them displays any of Calder's usual skill. The other two move only under strong provocation (I had to fan them with my notebook close by before they deigned to revolve) and when they finally do go into orbit, the objects don't describe a flexible and communicative arc in space...
...immediate contemporaries, the Italian sculptor, Giacometti, uses his electric virtuosity to enliven a canvas, one of his few. The subject appears ghost-like through the frantic scribblings of incised oil paint...
...building whose closed outer face deliberately belied the soaring drama of its interior. "It's like the Vati can," exclaimed one painter, staring up at the great dome. "You would need a piece of sculpture the size of the old Athena in the Parthenon for this place," worried Sculptor William Zorach. "Even when he made a mistake, he made a big one," opined Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz. But, looking across the well at the opening show of 134 paintings and sculptures selected from the 2,500-odd works in the Guggenheim collection, most were forced to concede that the great...
Keeping Up with the Times. In this volume, Faulkner carries the story well beyond World War II, and it is precisely the new material that seems least convincing. Characters get in and out of wars in a way that seems merely to pass time. Linda marries a New York sculptor who is also a Jew and a Communist, but by the time he gets himself killed fighting in the Spanish Civil War, the whole episode has the look of merely trying to keep up with the times. Jefferson, Miss, (really Faulkner's home town of Oxford) sees dramatic changes...
...Modern sculptor Jacques Lipschitz and Julius Stratton, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will also receive degrees...