Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yale biologist, Ross G. Harrison, unveiled his concept of a "sculptor" and "master builder" within each living cell. The sculptor, The Times said, "molds the aboriginal clay of life into his own image," while the master builder "organizes the stuff of life into its various tissues and organs...
...asked a Parisian or a New Yorker in 1886 what sculpture was, the answer (after a short blank stare) would have been: statues. Statuary, to borrow the mordant phrase of Claes Oldenburg many decades later, was "bulls and greeks and lots of nekkid broads." The sculptor of that day was responsible -- as in the age of film, TV and other ways of mass-circulating the visual icon he is not -- for commemorating the dead, illustrating religious myth or dogma and expressing social ideals. The aim and meaning of the work were rarely in doubt. With statues, good or bad, from...
Marble, wood and bronze remained fundamental materials, but they were used in unorthodox ways; and in addition, a sculptor could use any kind of junk, from cardboard, tin and pine boards (the stuff of Picasso's and Laurens's cubist constructions) to the wire and celluloid favored by constructivists, the steel plates and boiler ends forged by Smith, and so on down to rocks, twigs, burlap, twine or even the artist's own dung, which, canned and labeled by the Italian Piero Manzoni in 1961, provided a nastily prophetic comment on fetishism in late modern art. On its road away...
...gathered media representatives were treated to a preview of the 10- foot John Harvard marionette and its creator,Cambridge sculptor Bert Snow. Snow said that his"kinetic sculpture" would be roaming through thecrowd at the floating birthday party on September3, shaking hands with members of the audience,which official estimates place at 50,000 to100,000 people...
...link between such things and the surrealist delight in dream images is the theme of this show, which contrasts old curiosities with a range of modern work that runs from Joseph Cornell boxes to a weirdly beautiful reflection on nature and culture by the contemporary Italian sculptor Mario Merz, involving a motorbike with buffalo horns for handlebars, a zebra's head and a string of neon numbers...