Word: metalwork
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sake of Japan. Still in Rome in 1966, he served as a sightseeing guide for a visiting Japanese industrialist, Kageki Minami, president of the Osaka Shipbuilding Co. Minami admittedly knew nothing about art, but metalwork was his business. When he saw the mobiles in Shingu's Roman studio, he invited Shingu to come back to Japan and live and work in his shipyard, where there would be plenty of welders and painters to help him-to say nothing of unlimited amounts of scrap steel to work with...
...wounds take centuries to heal, the hardy culture that grew from conflict has proved endlessly enriching. The taste for decorative, geometric art is still shown in Spain's intricate metalwork and cabinetry. The turn-of-the-century architect, Antoni Gaudi, resorted in his unfinished Church of the Holy Family in Barcelona to restless linear rhythms that recall the Moorish Alhambra. Andalusian laments still recall an Arab origin, and even the haunting cries of flamenco suit a caliph better than a king...
Died. Frederick H. Rohr, 69, founder and chairman of Rohr Corp., leading U.S. aircraft subcontractor, a mechanic who built and installed all the metalwork on Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, in 1940 formed a company that today grosses $128 million a year making parts for jet aircraft; following a stroke; in San Diego, Calif...
Rich Fare. The school is equally proud that its size (1,000 boys) allows it to offer not only rich academic fare, from poetry to physics, but also art, engineering, metalwork and woodwork. When the school produced Julius Caesar, daggers and swords were forged on the premises. Boys have built everything from lawnmowers to kitchens in the workshops. "In this school, the bright boy who wants to take up pottery, or the boy good with his hands who wants to tackle French, can do so as seriously as he likes," says Hamblin...