Word: sculptor
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...less a dramatic polemicist is Peter Schumann, 34, a German sculptor and choreographer who came to the U.S. seven years ago and organized the Bread and Puppet Theater. Schumann and his fellow actors perform mostly in New York City slums where, since receiving a grant two years ago, they run workshops in which ghetto children can make puppets. Before each performance, the company tears fresh loaves of pumpernickel into bits and passes them through the audience-an artistic communion that both engages the viewers' participation and sets the group's humanistic tone. "All of our shows...
Cascade of Grease. In many ways, the patron saint of the exhibit is Soft Sculptor Claes Oldenburg, who last year got the City of New York to hire two gravediggers to dig a hole for him in Manhattan's Central Park, then fill it in, thereby burying a nonexistent "underground sculpture." His offering this time round: a Plexiglas cube stocked with night crawlers and humus, titled Worm Earth Piece. Minimal Sculptor Robert Morris, on the other hand, used the gallery as a site on which to build an earthwork out of 1,200 pounds of dirt and peat moss...
...like illness, sometimes affords its survivors unique insights. Sculptor Lucas Samaras, 32, grew up in Macedonia during World War II and the Greek civil war. Now a U.S. citizen, he still remembers "the bombings, the hiding, my aunt's ripped belly, the sound of executions, the strange pride in being visited by a catastrophe...
...much of a sculptor's skill lies in the dexterity of his hands, how much in the depths of his imagination? Those art-seminar questions are now the very practical concern of a Paris court. At issue are 32 works of sculpture that came out of the atelier of the great French impressionist painter Auguste Renoir shortly before his death half a century ago. In a suit seeking to win rights as "co-author," a Spanish-born sculptor named Richard Guino, 78, is arguing that his were the hands that really shaped the Renoir masterpieces...
Artistic Critique. Despite the defense's attempt to portray Guino as more chiseler than sculptor, the three-man tribunal listened sympathetically to his case. With obvious admiration, Chief Judge Paul Mouzon studied two Guino statuettes displayed in court. And when the courtroom debate finally ended, he asked Paris Art Dealer Alfred Daber to spend up to six months studying the essential question: Do the disputed works bear Guino's "personal stamp, even a modest one," or can they be considered "as belonging entirely to Auguste Renoir in spite of Guino's skill and dexterity"? The final decision...