Word: mayan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early bronzes and terra cottas were heavily influenced by French Cubist Sculptor Henri Laurens, and their dominant rhythm was taken from Mayan art-a blockish, crankshaft-like sequence of shapes. They may have been stylistically uncertain, but they were powerful, and on seeing them, a leading New York dealer named Nierendorf gave Nevelson her first one-woman show, in 1941. She was past 40, an age when some artists start thinking not about their debuts but about their retrospectives...
Howard, who will use Peabody artifacts in an exhibit on Mayan culture, added that if the program succeeds, NEH may fund similar programs with other institutions...