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Last week Sculptor Jacob Epstein made news by exhibiting in Manhattan a statue that no one could possibly object to. This Epstein was an appealing, life-size bust of a child, arms outstretched, modeled after Epstein's infant granddaughter, Leda. It was to be put on sale for the benefit of British war relief...
...Milwaukee, Wis.; Mark J. Dalton 3L, Cambridge, Mass.; Richard T. Davis 2L, Medford, Mass.; Charles E. DeLong 2L, Philadelphia, Pa.; George J. Devlin 2L, Somerville, Mass.; Paul Dobin 3L, New York, N. Y.; John F. Dowd 3L, Bellaire, L. I., N. Y.; Cecil Elfenbein 3L, Erie, Pa.; Stanley M. Epstein 2L, New Bedford, Mass.; Richard B. Finn 2L, Niagara Falls, N. Y.; Nathan Fishman 3L, Union City, N. J.; David Flower, Jr. 2L, Brookline, Mass.; Myron L. Gordon 2L, Milwaukee, Wis.; Israel J. Graff 3L, Wheeling...
...Epstein's statues have started riots, thrown academicians into fume and sputter, horrified bishops, even worried Scotland Yard. They have been tarred and feathered, lathered with green paint, censored with fig leaves. They have been called ''bestial, hideous, obscene, monstrous, misshapen, vile...
Last week Sculptor Epstein published his autobiography under an Old-Testament title Let There Be Sculpture (G. P. Putnam's Sons; $5). The book roared like a thwarted bull, and with as little humor. It told little about Sculptor Epstein and his dramatic rise from Manhattan's lower East Side, much about his work. Getting back at his critics, Epstein flayed the "wretched lot of logrollers, schemers, sharks, opportunists, profiteers, snobs, parasites, sycophants, camp followers, social climbers and . . . fourflushers [who] infest the world of art-this jungle into which the artist is forced periodically to bring his work...
About his own work, Sculptor Epstein waxes both lyrical and lucid. Wrote he, of his famous bulb-bellied statue Genesis: "How a figure like this contrasts with our coquetries and fanciful erotic nudes of modern sculpture! At one blow, whole generations of sculptors and sculpture are shattered and sent flying into the limbo of triviality, and my Genesis, with her fruitful womb, confronts our enfeebled generation. Within her man takes on new hope for the future. The generous earth gives herself up to us, meets our masculine needs, and says, 'Rejoice, I am Fruitfulness, I am Plenitude...