Word: sardinians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet Sardinian flew back home at week's end as unostentatiously as he arrived. Among his souvenirs: political profit accruing to the first NATO-country Premier to be briefed by President Eisenhower on the Khrushchev talks. He had also the knowledge that the U.S. accounts him a good friend...
...once remarked, "just as you do." But his portraits got smaller and smaller. He would carry them in his pockets, like peanuts, to the Paris cafes, and crush them with a squeeze. After World War II, Giacometti suddenly began producing tall, straw-thin stick men reminiscent of ancient Sardinian bronzes. His sculptures can be seen almost all the way around and dominate space instead of filling it. These new figures were universally acclaimed, but Giacometti went on destroying most of them. For the past year he has finished nothing...
...Sardinian-born sculptor Costantino Nivola has contributed two works to the uncompleted commons wing of Quincy. His graffito--a combination of fresco painting and engraving on white stucco--adorns the west wall of the main dining room, while a Nivola bas-relief covers the wall separating the stairwell from the dinning room...
...Gronchi (who would like to see the Christian Democrats ally themselves with Nenni in an "opening to the left") had to call upon a Premier agreeable to Italy's right as well as acceptable to the left. Virtually the only man who filled the bill was wispy, courtly Sardinian Segni, who rarely provokes critics and never answers them...
Critics find in the Sardinian bronzes a curious foreshadowing of works by such contemporaries as Henry Moore, Marino Marini. Georges Braque-and with good reason. One of the strongest moves in 20th century sculpture was to bypass classic Greek and Roman models to find inspiration in the earlier, cruder and fresher works of once scorned primitive art. The few Sardinian bronzes that are privately owned have brought offers of up to $16,000 for a single piece. An ardent admirer, Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, praises their vitality, says, "They are almost as free as we are today." Sardinians consider them priceless...