Word: baskin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leonard Baskin, 39, Best Foreign Engraver. The youngest of the winners, Baskin is obsessed by the human nightmare which he expresses through torn and tormented figures...
...imperialist lackeys from the Associated Press and the United Press, stamping on the "bleeding Cuban people." Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art picked the U.S. entries, which included 34 abstractions by Robert Motherwell, two figurative paintings by Richard Diebenkorn, a couple of Leon Golub monsters, engravings by Leonard Baskin, constructions by Reuben Nakian and Richard Stankiewicz...
...although Dealey is still fond of pointing out that the News was the first Southern newspaper to call venereal diseases by their right names and the first paper in Texas to crusade for arsenical cattle dips. The News has only two staffers outside of Texas: Washington Correspondents Robert E. Baskin and John Mashek. Aware of its news deficiencies, the News ordered a reduction in the use of syndicated material from 50% of available news space to 25%. Said Managing Editor Jack Krueger, who engineered the reduction: "We've cleaned out the paper for news...
...Jersey rabbi, Baskin was rigorously trained in the Talmud until his 15th year, later got an equally thorough art training at the Yale School of Fine Arts, in Paris, and in Florence...
...works in wood "because it is warm and alive, lighter than stone and cheaper than bronze." Baskin gives his figures all the unadorned monumentality he can, tries to capture the most elemental aspects of man's life. Like the sculptured gods of Egypt and Sumeria, his figures are still, withdrawn, awesome. Yet they also express a sharply contrasting sense of the ordinary and everyday. He casts fat, simple, dull-seeming people in the roles of gods and heroes. Except for his owl, and the timelessness it symbolizes, the Seated Man might be riding a subway...