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...commonest material is steel-reinforced concrete, a fine example of which is the cathedral-sized church of Notre Dame in Royan. Pioneered in Europe by the late French architect Auguste Ferret, it makes possible spans and spires undreamed of by medieval minds. To fill in the voids, glass craftsmen have been called upon to hang handsome curtains that would have as tonished Gothic glassmakers. These new, iridescent walls of glass lend a ripple of color to otherwise oatmeal-grey concrete. The glassmakers must work hand in hand with the architect. Says France's best-known glass designer, Gabriel Loire...
GEORGE RICKEY - Staempfli, 47 East 77th. Calder is not the only artist who keeps sculpture moving. Rickey and Bury (see below) are both kinetic craftsmen, and their galleries share the same floor...
...loner living in Germany, a tall Brazilian, Almir de Silva Mavignier, 39, is the prototype op artist (lower right). He works slowly, sells for little, and does not care for fame. "Think about the anonymous craftsmen who built that," he said recently, peering from behind gold-rimmed spectacles at the Ulm cathedral. "They have been depersonalized, yet might have died with satisfaction that they helped create something still pulsating 500 years later." His works, dotted with neat cones of oil, are uniformly produced in permutations of the spectrum: a painstaking topography that seems to prick the retina...
...British have already scored with Bridget Riley, 32 (TIME, May 1), whose stark black-and-white patterns have made viewers physically sick. She generally lets craftsmen execute her designs, has a standoffishness and coolth matched by her countryman, Steele. "These pictures are not necessarily meant to be looked at," says Steele. Another Englishman is Cambridge-educated Michael Kidner (below), at 46 one of the oldest of the flicker boys. Years ago he bashed away at abstract expressionism, but, says he, "never convinced myself that the gesture I was making had much significance." Then he learned that he could make people...
...Green at Lexington to Concord's Minutemen monument. Route 20 shadows the Massachusetts Turnpike, navigates the Berkshires to the Tanglewood Music Festival at Lenox. Sturbridge Village, a few miles off the highway, is an early 19th century town beautifully re-created from steeple to hitching post, complete with craftsmen who duplicate antique pewter spoons and horse-drawn wagons for kids to ride...