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...first things the America undertaker changed was the old "wooden overcoat." In an age when the grave robber and the medical student were supposedly working hand in glove, "safe" coffins, made at first of iron, came in vogue. Soon there were models in zinc, glass terra cotta, papier-mâché, hydraulic cement and vulcanized rubber. The coffin torpedo, marketed in 1878, was the final answer to body snatchers-it featured a bomb that was triggered to go off when the coffin lid was lifted. However, the triumph of sepulchral gadgeteering was the "life signal," which offered mechanical surcease...
...Terra cotta was the favorite medium of Vulca of Veii, who lived about 500 B.C., the only Etruscan artist whose name has come down. A head of Hermes, perhaps his masterpiece, is so good that classic scholars once thought it must be Greek. But its smiling features, looking out on a benevolent world with a typically Etruscan expression, are alien both to Roman sternness and Greek idealized classicism. More than anything else, it was this carefree attitude toward life as well as death that gave the Etruscan works their unexpected appeal. Rather than visiting a dead civilization, visitors...
...sixteen works of sculpture shown at the Paul Schuster Gallery, Miguel Gusils tries his hand at a variety of materials: bronze, steel, iron, marble and terra cotta; as well as a number of styles. No. 1 "Torso" is a realistic treatment of the traditional nude. Instead of idealizing the body Gusils prefers to make it very fleshy and animal like. Irregular proportions and a relaxed posture help accomplish this. The same subject is teated in increasingly more abstract styles in three other works. No. 6, a marble nude, approaches a watered down cubism. As in the work of the contemporary...
...trial has been safely over for 350 years (when the right man was convicted, name of Guy Fawkes). The pilgrim has been given to understand that inferiority complexes should be of more moderate size than cathedrals of -more on the lines of a semidetached villa which may have terra-cotta griffons on the roof but no real monsters within. It is a "cosy" doghouse, Koestler admits, and in gratitude affirms that this mild race lives "closer to the text of the invisible writing than any other." No one in Koestler's new home would dream of asking a stranger...
...civilization might well lie beneath the stones. In 1951, under a $480,000 government grant (made possible by Marshall Plan aid), he started digging with a crew of 46 workmen, and soon found evidence to support his educated guess. Among his rich preliminary finds: a colored, life-size terra-cotta statue of a god, probably Zeus adorned with a thin, Dali-like mustache; a rare, ten-inch nude model of Hera, wife of Zeus and the goddess of fertility, in the squatting position of ancient Greek women in childbirth...