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...What interests me is a series of shocks and encounters a person can have," confesses Sculptor George Segal. For nearly three decades, the master of plaster has recorded those seismic occasions, and in George Segal (Rizzoli; 379 pages; $65), Art Historians Sam Hunter and Don Hawthorne have gathered the best of them, from '50s paintings like Dead Chicken to his life-size casts of individuals trapped in time. Throughout his long career, the artist has trumpeted his message of alienation...
...seen in this gallery without walls, the most effective pieces are political-those commemorating the Kent State shooting and the Holocaust, for example. They display one attribute Segal has usually shown more obliquely: emotion...
...relationships with his natural father Lord Auchinleck and with his adopted father Samuel Johnson. Lord Auchinleck was "upright, hardworking, shrewd, practical and totally unimaginative." To take a ridiculous modern example, his relationship with James was akin to that of Oliver Barrett III and his conservative, wealthy father in Eric Segal's Love Story. Boswell felt the same mixture of perverse joy in defying Lord Auchinleck that Oliver feels in resisting his father. Lord Auchinleck resented the son he deemed irresponsible, and he forced James to suffer a life plagued by financial insecurity and feelings that he could never quite measure...
...Segal has estimated that the cost of printing and distributing the booklet will be less than $600. Since he missed the official deadline, he requested an emergency grant from the Undergraduate Council to finance the project...
...Segal said he hopes to establish the House guide as an annual publication and would be willing to sell copies to endow the publication in the future...