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...sculptures, drawings, masks and enamels by Julio Gonzalez now on show in Manhattan's Galerie Chalette tell a great deal about the strange and melancholy adventurer who wrought them, and a great deal more about the adventuresome path sculptors of this age have taken...
...Lady of Montserrat, Catalonia's patron saint. The original Montserrat is a small wooden figure of the Virgin that legend says was carved by St. Luke. It now stands in mountaintop Montserrat monastery near Barcelona. For Gonzalez, the Montserrat was the symbol of the Spanish peasant, and he wrought the first of his series during the Spanish Civil War-a woman erect and proud, child in one arm, weapon in the other. The series ends in 1942 with his last and unfinished study; charged with protest against war and against Franco, Gonzalez shows the Montserrat broken, reduced...
Calder is perhaps the most at home with jewelry. His strange, twisted wire brooches and earrings are intriguing parallels to his spinning mobiles, and his spiky, formidable necklaces are often wrought from scrap iron. His best work, though, is in hammered silver. American Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz shows a gold-plated necklet cast with an antique turquoise...
There is a surprising amount of good poetry, most of it-like the prose-in conventional forms. New poets like X. J. Kennedy, Daniel J. Langton, James Wright, established poets like Donald Davie, Howard Nemerov, Louis Simpson are well represented by well-wrought verse. One newsworthy item (in Evergreen Review): a strong anti-oppression poem by jailed Soviet Poet Yesenin-Volpin, natural son of the Yesenin who was one of Isadora Duncan's lovers...
...Italian upper class, L'Avventura studies an individual, not a class. It unfolds through personalities instead of tiresome figures transplanted from an Every-man play. And even more gratifying, this gracefully wrought story reveals a person whose uniqueness is respected: it is not a discombobulated tirade against a wayward society...