Word: davids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DAVID HARRIS...
...DAVID SMITH rejoiced in the clatter of the Iron Age. In his workshop at Bolton Landing, on Lake George in upstate New York, he welded junk steel and polished aluminum into powerful abstractions. Before he was killed in a car crash at the age of 59 in 1965, many critics considered him the most important sculptor working in America. Smith had rarely talked about his work in public, though he often scribbled his thoughts in his notebooks...
Many of his words have now been assembled in David Smith, by David Smith, edited by Cleve Gray (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 176 pages; $22.95). The book offers the illuminating experience of hearing a sculptor speak for himself in prose and free verse that echoes what Smith himself called the "belligerent vitality" of his work. Smith's writings, like his sculpture, are apt to be compact and condensed, and his syntax is sometimes bewildering. Nonetheless, his thoughts become clear enough with a little patient attention. Excerpts...
Rudolph Hurwich, owner of a small packaging outfit in San Francisco, was willing to listen to the visitor in his office one day in 1958. The guest was David Souza, from nearby Hayward, Calif., who had dropped by to try to peddle his invention: a simple, hand-operated labeling device for punching embossed letters onto adhesive plastic tape...
Benito Cerino--Directors David Wheeler and Frank Cassidy have constructed Robert Lowell's penetration of an American mind into a simple tragedy of racism. An awkward flat production. At the THEATRE COMPANY OF BOSTON 136 Mass. Ave. (426-6609). Ends Sunday...