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...only area in which this presents a real problem is in her larger sculpture. Despite her virtuosity, Nevelson has not made a good crossing from private to public space, although she is besieged by commissions. In fact, there is hardly one major 20th century artist-not even Alexander Calder or Henry Moore- whose essential oeuvre includes much public, commissioned sculpture. On the public scale, the suppleness of intuition tends to stiffen and is replaced more often than not by a mild form of self-parody. The old cliché was the bronze general on horseback, humiliated by birds...
Since the death of Calder, Nevelson has become the most frequently commissioned sculptor on the public scale in America, the chief beneficiary of an overflowing pork barrel. Yet a great deal is lost when her work is transferred from the room to the lobby or the plaza. The sense of intimate contact goes. So does the feeling of envelopment, the mysterious orchestration of additive detail in a limited, and hence obsessive-seeming, space. Nevelson's open-form, welded sculptures, such as the set of Shadows and Flags recently installed on a handkerchief-size plot near Wall Street (which...
This might not be so obtrusive if Chicago's gifts as a formal artist were less meager. In drawing and modeling, The Dinner Party is mainly cliche. Most of the shapes look clumsy, either tied down by looping dark outlines that seem as inert as Alexander Calder's late graphics, or else gussied up, in the ceramics, with colors worthy of a Taiwanese souvenir factory. In terms of taste, The Dinner Party is no better than mass devotional...
Television's interest grew too. In the early 1970s, PBS began importing BBC science specials, like Nigel Calder's programs on astronomy, physics, the new biology. In 1974, one of the PBS stations, WGBH in Boston, took the plunge with its own Nova series. Now, counting Nova, Sagan's Cosmos, and Miller's Body, PBS is running seven separate science series...
...Calder said both countries are motivated by self-interest to participate in the project. "Although in the short run, the U.S. deficit gives the Japanese the advantage of selling more, it is not in the Japanese interest to see America an economic cripple, that is, incapable of playing a central role in world politics," he said. "They know that for the U.S. to maintain a substantial defense establishment it must be able to compete in international markets," he added