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...enough symbols of god-granted fertility in a hot, dusty country. But sculptors did not copy trees, even when they meant to depict them. Instead, the artists pursued a metaphysic that showed dryads called yakshis (see opposite page) embracing trees in a union of the soul and the divine. Bulbous breasts, swelling hips and crescent thighs are drawn more from the idea of fertility than from womanly shapeliness. If the sculptors made their female goddesses hyperana-tomic bombs, they were emphasizing perfection in divine terms...
...runway at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., had a third one disassembled in side an Edwards hangar for close-up observation. From the side, the swift ship looks like a stretched-out version of the X-15 rocket ship. From the front, the effect is just as strange; two bulbous engine nacelles above the razor-thin wing look like black marbles perched precariously on a strand of wire; the thin vertical tail surfaces, canted noticeably inward, jut upward like giant insect antennae...
Some Like It Dirty. Inevitably, the big cleanup has divided Paris into two camps: black and white. At the start, white was a dirty word, particularly since Montmartre's white Sacré-Coeur basilica has long been regarded as a bulbous eyesore. When it was suggested that Notre-Dame be scoured, a venerable member of the Paris city council counterproposed: "Paint Sacré-Coeur black instead." Notre-Dame may yet remain the great unwashed building, since architects fear that its 800-year-old lacy filigree would crumble. The pro-blacks argue that character, dignity and age are lost...
GEORGE SPAVENTA-Poindexter, 21 West 56th. New York Sculptor Spaventa's figures are malformed blobs of metal that look as if they were still taking shape-or beginning to melt. But his elongated, bulbous nudes are balanced firmly on broad bases, seem to grow naturally out of their own bulky substance. More than 60 small bronzes, also some drawings. Through...
Died. Alexander Archipenko, 76, Ukrainian-born sculptor who in 1909 shocked Paris by giving a third dimension to the cubism of Braque and Picasso, produced in the years that followed a 1,000-piece gallery of fluid and generally bulbous angularities (among the best-known: The Boxer and Gondolier), developing many popular techniques, such as the use of hunks of glass and mother-of-pearl, tunneling holes through anatomy long before Henry Moore; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...