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...bronze, and the air is scented with the churchlike smell of resin and wax dripping from the handmade kilns. There last week stood the man whom many U.S. and European critics rank as one of the top two or three sculptors in the world: stocky, blue-eyed Jacques Lipchitz...
...sculpture was to bypass classic Greek and Roman models to find inspiration in the earlier, cruder and fresher works of once scorned primitive art. The few Sardinian bronzes that are privately owned have brought offers of up to $16,000 for a single piece. An ardent admirer, Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, praises their vitality, says, "They are almost as free as we are today." Sardinians consider them priceless. Said one: "To us the bronzes represent-with simple and powerful plasticity-all the humanity of this island: the concrete details of our daily life, our aspirations, our acute religious instinct, everything characteristic...
...Blue-Green; and Manhattan's Erne Joseph for his abstract Intersectional. The sculpture winners: Peter Abate of Brookline, Mass, for. his tamely symbolic marble Beginning of Life; Arnold Geissbuhler of Manhattan for a bronze Bird, whose cock's crow hauntingly echoes the earlier work of Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz (see cuts...
...with the original idea ("Wouldn't it be great if we could get Michelangelo and Shakespeare on the tube?" Pat said). Of the 26 shows that Graff will run off on consecutive Sundays at 2:30 E.D.T., seven will be entirely new, e.g., visits with Jacques Lipchitz, Igor Stravinsky, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, Vannevar Bush, Walter Gropius. Next week Graff himself steps in to interview David Ben-Gurion in the library of his Tel Aviv home. His basic idea: to provide "a uniform panorama of human leadership in the first half of the century...
...Jacques Lipchitz, 65, who was born in Lithuania, came to the U.S. from France in 1941 (and became a citizen two weeks ago), falls somewhere between Lardera and Manzu. He has long since left his cubist period behind, and his work has become much more lyrical and expressive. Since his early days, Lipchitz has liked to shape his ideas in wax or clay, then cast them in bronze or transfer them into stone by hiring a stonecutter to do all the work except the finishing touches. His latest work, on exhibition last week at Fine Arts Associates, is a series...