Word: colossi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them wear a subtle expression that presumably only sophisticated sculptors would attempt or could achieve; the best rank among the greatest sculptures of all time. What men produced these monsters? Where did these men come from? Where did they go? How and why did they shape their scoriae colossi...
...these schools it is even rarer for a student to talk to a professor than it is at a U.S. multiversity. Nihon has 75,500 students, second only to the Sorbonne as the largest single-campus university in the world-but only 5,400 teachers. Equally understaffed are such colossi as Waseda (39,782 students), Meiji (32,584), Chuo (29 774), Hosei (27,708) and Keio...
...France, Charles de Gaulle is sensitive about the fact that his country's businesses, though wealthy enough, are not very large when measured on an international scale. His government has consistently urged French firms to merge and thus come closer in size to the foreign (meaning U.S.) corporate colossi that De Gaulle fears could eventually make France an economic colony...
Calder constructs his colossi segment by segment in a studio near his 15th century farmhouse nestled against a limestone cliff, overlooking vineyards and crouched cottages in the chateau country of Touraine. The sculptures bear terse, functional names, such as Dog, Long Nose or Snowplow, tower above the trim countryside. Yet, the neighbors call Calder "le Bricoleur"- the Tinker-because he is always willing to pause from his work and shape a tiny bright metal toy for one of their children...
Ramses built the larger temple in his own honor. The four 65 foot-high colossi hewn from the cliff depict him; the has reliefs that line the chambers burrowing deep into the cliff behind them illustrate his triumphs. The pharaoh built many temples to himself, but only at Abu Simbel did dignity triumph over the vulgarity of profuse ornamentation...