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Nevelson was not, of course, the first artist to do this: her forerunner in the art of reclamation was German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), who made thousands of collages from street refuse. When the sculptor Jean Arp saw Nevelson's great black environment Sky Cathedral in 1958, he wrote her a poem hailing her as Schwitters' spiritual granddaughter, but the fact seems to be that Nevelson had seen nothing by Schwitters...
...Jean Piaget, 84, innovative Swiss psychologist who devoted his life to mapping out how children think. During a 60-year career, he published more than 50 books and evolved the theory that knowledge is not poured into a child like water into a cup but that a child helps create what he learns through his own activity...
...Jean-Paul Sartre, 74, French existentialist philosopher who embraced Communism and later Maoism and deeply influenced a generation of postwar intellectuals. In novels (Nausea), plays (No Exit) and tracts (Being and Nothingness), Sartre contended that God is dead and that man thus defines himself through his own actions...
FRANCE. Because President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing faces re-election this spring, the French government is unlikely to be quite as tightfisted as its Bonn counterpart. Jean-Marie Chevalier, professor of economics at the University of Paris Nord, predicts that growth, which was 1.6% in 1980, will decline slightly to between .5% and 1% in 1981. Unemployment, now at 6.9%, could reach 8%. Progress against inflation will be small. After rising by 13.5% in 1980, prices this year will surge another 11% or more...
...Oncle d'Amérique. Screenwriter Jean Gruault and Director Alain Resnais have devised a lecture on human behavior that is also a delightful comedy of manners. Demands and rewards intelligence. Take notes, and enjoy...