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...artist is judged by the company his work keeps, Peter Agostini is a pop sculptor. At the current sculpture exhibition in Manhattan's Jewish Museum, Agostini's plaster popovers are on show across from George Segal's plaster mummies. All summer long, some of his clustered plaster balloons hung, like monster grapes for a superbacchanalia, outside the New York State Pavilion at the World's Fair next to Robert Indiana's EAT sign, Roy Lichtenstein's cartoon, and Jim Rosenquist's billboard...
...recalls selling his early drawings to the sisters at parochial school when he was eleven. His later friends were abstract expressionists of a generation older than pop: Kline, De Kooning and Marca-Relli. Pepperonis & Provolones. In his 30s and 40s Agostini began making commercial sculpture. He made plaster mannequins for a fashionable Manhattan women's store. This led him to sculpt pseudo-delicatessenry for the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps. He molded polyester salamis, pepperonis and meat loaves-stuff that by some pop values would be worth bundles...
...sure it was the wettest of all peanuts, and I'm afraid Mr. Humphrey got his hands stained handling it. I made the peanut on short notice. As clay takes time to dry and of course to be fired, I consented to do one in plaster. After finishing the peanut, I soon found that it would not stain successfully because of the water content of plaster. I tried my best but stain will just not adhere to a wet subject. Tifton County is Goldwater country (mostly), but I do hope Mr. Humphrey enjoyed his visit to our city...
...flailing, roaring mobs to join him in the "Great Society," and followed his speeches again with the bruising foray into the arms of well-wishers. In Baltimore, where he addressed the students and faculty at Johns Hopkins University, he got the same treatment, autographed a baseball and the plaster cast on a youth's broken hand, dandled a tot, made it a point to praise Johns Hopkins President Milton Eisenhower, Ike's brother, as a "distinguished" man who had provided the nation with "wise counsel through the years...
Sterilized before it is packaged, the inflatable splint has been widely tested in hospitals (which pay $6.90 for the arm size, $8.10 for the leg size). Orthopedists have found it useful for immobilizing limbs after surgery, before they put on a plaster cast...