Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tabor's pivotal case arises when the politicians and legal establishment attempt to do her in: Gabriel Zampa, an eccentric sculptor builds three Watts-like towers jutting out of the tan wasteland, "Cause eve'yt'ing aroun' was gettin' ugly." The city orders them demolished, but Tabor argues that they are works of art. Craftily, the city hires Ellen Trask, a woman whose credentials are even more formidable than Tabor's, and with the ceremony of gunfighters, the two legal amazons go at it. Tabor wins, but neither she nor the towers are safe...
Most U.S. police forces have been slow to respond. New York is the only city that has a full-time art crime detective. He is Robert Volpe, 35, a spare-time painter and sculptor who looks the part: shoulder-length hair and well-worn jeans. He figures that he helped recover art objects worth about $4 million...
...expected quota of mock anthropology and imaginary biology; the most eccentric and striking example of that genre being a pair of crude effigies of horses, made from sticks, chicken wire and mud by the California artist Deborah Butterfield. There is also a hilarious piece of funkiness by a Texas sculptor, James Surls, representing a tornado chewing through the roof of a church; Surls' debt to that master of buckeye surrealism, H.C. Westermann, is ob vious enough, but the image has a wobbly comic-strip blatancy about it that carries conviction...
What has aroused Einsteinophiles especially is a 12-ft.-high bronze statue of the physicist that will be unveiled in April by the National Academy of Sciences on Washington's Constitution Avenue. Critics have attacked Sculptor Robert Berks for his "bubble gum" style, the astrological connotation of the star-studded base and the statue's cost (at least $1.6 million). Others insist that no statue could really be appropriate; Einstein, after all, was so opposed to posthumous veneration that he willed his ashes to be scattered at an undisclosed place. Constantly called upon to pose for photographers, painters and sculptors...
...Rockefeller's "Rodin" costs, anyone with an eye and some spirit could put together a few handsome original objects by excellent living artists-and have money left over for a week in Paris, spending every day at the Rodin Museum really learning something about a great sculptor...