Word: handless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known (in an echo of the French Revolution?) as M'sieur Pierre. The prison itself is timeless, universal, born of an idea turned into phantasm. Its antic rules ("the management shall in no case be responsible for the loss of property or for the inmate himself"), the handless clock on which a watchman hourly paints in the hands, and, above all, the jailers' constant and somehow insane concern for the prisoner's welfare-all add up to a caricature of prisons everywhere. The fussy, pedantic, sentimental jailers are so many congealed crocodile tears; what a naughty...
...virility possessed by few contemporary sculptors, but, except for his earliest sculpture, there is very little conventional beauty in anything Lipchitz has done. Prometheus Strangling the Vulture II is typically powerful, but it is also unnecessarily cluttered. Mother and Child II shows a baby-burdened mother with stubby, handless arms outstretched in supplication for peace; there is a belly-blow force in the conception of the statue, but the emotion it produces is something like that evoked by the sight of open sores on a crippled, shuffling beggar: pity mixed with revulsion. Song of the Vowels is a more straightforward...