Word: cottas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maldarelli sometimes worked in terra cotta, plaster, limestone or wood, but his favorite material was marble. With it, he said, "you can play a chisel as a musician plays an instrument." It was while he was working on a piece of fine marble one day in January that a heart attack struck him dead-an artist due, like many another, to win greater fame after death than he ever knew while alive...
...Bontecou, a blonde loft-waif of Lower Manhattan, used to do terra-cotta animals, turned to something called "soot drawings" while on a Fulbright in Rome, five years ago started making little boxes of metal rods with canvas sides stitched on with copper wire, treated with sizing for tautness, scorched with a blowtorch for blackness. From there, the elaborate wall structures grew. "I wanted to get sculpture off the floor-sculptures standing on the floor, they don't have anything to do with anything; they're so heavy and, well, I just wanted to get them...
...neglected cultural contribution of Africa to the rest of the world. More than 350 works-many borrowed from museums and private collections in Britain. Europe and the U.S.-make up the show (see color). Bronzes, wood carvings, ironwork, masks, dance costumes, ritual dolls, totems, musical instruments, fragments of terra cotta are there and compared, when appropriate, with photographs of examples from the modern movement in Western...
...Salisbury show is the most comprehensive collection of African art ever assembled. It ranges from the terra-cotta pieces of the Nok culture. 2,000 years ago. through the supremely realistic Ife portrait heads of the 8th to the 14th century, to the Benin empire bronzes that mark the turning point from realism to expressionism between the 15th and the 19th centuries. The most recent pieces of traditional art in the show are wood carvings 50 years old. The older things have survived because they are made of terra cotta. bronze, iron or brass; millions of wood sculptures have been...
...sold to tourists. The farmer told the police, who notified authorities in Rome, who in turn notified the Villa Giulia. Next day two archaeologists climbed the hill, squeezed through the narrow hole that the robbers had dug, emerged minutes later bursting with excitement. Scattered about inside lay 18 terra cotta figures, each representing a member of a family that had been buried there probably between 200 and 100 B.C. They formed the largest cache of Etruscan funerary statues ever found in such good condition at one time...