Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freak" (in the Rick Jamesian sense), she'd like to set the record straight. Thus, the parade of Nola-experts--including father, ex-roommate, sexologist, and lovers--rolls out. She knows that their comments--for instance, "I was the best thing to happen to Nola Darling...I was the sculptor, and she was but a piece of clay"--will be her best defense...
...English Sculptor Henry Moore, whose bold, simple forms are familiar fixtures in cities and landscapes the world over, dies...
...sheer pervasiveness of his work is not in doubt. When he died last week at the age of 88 in the farmhouse where he had lived and worked for more than 40 years, near the English village of Much Hadham, Henry Moore, C.H., O.M., was the best-known sculptor in the world...
...other sculptor's imagination was more manifestly connected to his past, even to his infancy, than Moore's. Like D.H. Lawrence, he came from a mining village; his father had labored in the pit and risen to become an engineer. His mother bore eight children, and one does not need to be an exegete to realize that it is to her that his work insistently refers -- those broad- backed, maternal figures, like sentinels, their bodies expanded into bosses and swells that suggest an infant's apprehension of the breast, or hollowed into womblike cavities. The fundamental experience of work that...
...nothing comes out of childhood without the formal keys to unlock it. Where other art was concerned, Moore (like his lifelong friend and patron Kenneth Clark, who arranged for him to be an official war artist in World War II and was thus partly responsible for the sculptor's best-known early work, the underground-shelter drawings) was a great looker and rememberer. Certain works were fundamental to his art. A stone carving of the Mexican rain-god Chacmool gave him the crankshaft rhythm of shoulders, waist, pelvis and thighs that would surface in his own figures from the late...