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...seeming, space. Nevelson's open-form, welded sculptures, such as the set of Shadows and Flags recently installed on a handkerchief-size plot near Wall Street (which New York City benevolently renamed Louise Nevelson Plaza), are big, imposing and mannered. They leave one convinced that this kind of postconstructivist sculpture-in-the-round is not her forte at all. In her hands the idiom has neither the power of David Smith's welded constructions nor the finesse and precision of Anthony Caro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sculpture's Queen Bee | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

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