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Flanked by panels painted with false perspectives, other bits of bronze, chunks of pavement, ax-hewn and charred wood catch the eye. Some parts of the sculpture peep from behind doors; others curlicue underneath canopies. One piece, or "galaxy" as Kiesler calls them, is titled The Cup of Prometheus, and appropriately contains a burning smudge pot. To encourage people to contemplate the work, Kiesler cast two 85-lb. aluminum stools that are exactly placed in reference to larger parts. The problem is that Kiesler has had to borrow his most precious commodity-space-from a polygonal room in Wright...
...killed himself in 1932; Hartley wrote poetry and wished to be remembered as "the painter from Maine," where he was born and where, in 1943, he died. As these 22 still lifes show, both forged a highly personal style: Maurer a sensuous, solidly constructed cubism; Hartley a rough-hewn primitive expressionism. Through...
...belonged, he said, to the "Take-It-Aisy School of Socialism." With great fanfare, writes Dunne, Wells once met the "taciturn, cynical Lenin with his yellow skin drawn like parchment over his high cheekbones, his little restless eyes, his great bald head looking as if it might have been hewn out of yellow pine with an adze. And here was little Wells, earnest, honest, conceited, describing in his falsetto voice the British conception of a Secialist Utopia of semidetached villas with a pot of geraniums in each window. When the interview ended and our hero strutted out, Lenin gave...
Ramses built the larger temple in his own honor. The four 65 foot-high colossi hewn from the cliff depict him; the has reliefs that line the chambers burrowing deep into the cliff behind them illustrate his triumphs. The pharaoh built many temples to himself, but only at Abu Simbel did dignity triumph over the vulgarity of profuse ornamentation...
...miners, along with more than 200 newsmen, gathered around in agonized vigil, the rescue team's drill bit deeper toward Fellin and Throne. With every turn of that drill the danger increased that the rescue efforts would cave in what remained of the roof of that underground, pick-hewn grotto in which Fellin, Throne and, surely not too many feet away, Lou Bova, had been trapped...