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Shipyard Studio. Among grownups, as well, Calder at 65 is Europe's favorite U.S. sculptor. In 1927 he delighted Paris with his tiny abstract circus of wire-wound clowns. The son and grandson of more conventional sculptors, Calder has the blacksmith's instinctual understanding and fondness for metal. His ham fists twist, snip and shear sheet metal into subtle forms that others can only hope to achieve in clay or marble. His latest works of iron are so heavy that his Paris gallery had to reinforce its floor with girders for a one-man Calder show last month...
...title that is his own transcription of an Englishman's saying "Ask for T." ("And the T," says Thelonious, "is me.") The concert was the most successful jazz event of the season, and Monk greeted his triumph with grace and style. At the piano he turned to like a blacksmith at a cranky forge? foot flapping madly, a moan of exertion fleeing his lips. The music he made suggested that the better he is received by his audience the better he gets...
EMILE GILIOLI and MICHEL ELIA-World House, 987 Madison Ave. at 77th. Fifty sculptures by two Parisians. The polished-bronze abstracts of Gilioli, formerly a blacksmith, are forged with a purity of line that is matched by Elia's virginal Arp-like marbles, which more immediately echo the human figure. Through...
...German. Bissier's fragile modes had rude beginnings. Son of a French-descended blacksmith whose forebears moved to the Black Forest from Toulouse, Bissier first explored landscape. Gold medals came his way, but after the Third Reich banned him from exhibiting in 1933 and a disastrous fire at his Freiburg University studio destroyed all his work the next year, he cast aside the past...
Following the Fumes. The rise to riches of the Fisher brothers was a Detroit success story second only to that of Henry Ford. The sons of a Norwalk, Ohio, blacksmith and carriage maker, the Fisher boys learned their trade at their father's forge, followed the gasoline fumes to Detroit as the horseless carriage appeared. Charles joined his older brother Fred in a job at the Wilson Carriage Co. In 1908, the brothers teamed up with an uncle and formed Fisher Body to make auto bodies...