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Fazzini at his more serious was harder to take. The Prophet, which Fazzini himself considers one of his best statues, was a grim, slope-shouldered figure in coarse-grained pearwood, as ungainly as his other work was agile. Fazzini explains it as "architecture in the form of a man-the attempt of man to become more pure, and to rise from the material to the spiritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Italian in Manhattan | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

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