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Three things can be said at once about this collection. First, it represents a decent and sincere intention. Second, it contains a smattering of respectable works of art: a set of Matisse chasubles from Vence, a cast of Rodin's Hand of God, some Rouault aquatints and so forth. Third, with such few exceptions, it is an aesthetic swamp. If some mischievous curator had been asked to as semble a study collection of rhetorical sham, displaying all the cliches of modern art at their meridian of pious triviality, he could hardly have done better...
Except for the Rodin, a Matisse crucifix and some early bas-reliefs by Lucio Fontana, there is hardly a sculpture worth preserving in the whole collection...
...cubist artists that included Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris and Georges Braque. Working in stone and bronze, Lipchitz simplified human figures into multiplaned, crystal-like abstractions. During the '20s, he began to reverse the process and "from a crystal build a man, a woman, a child." His ideal became Rodin rather than Picasso, his work more monumental, his themes heroic. During World War II, Lipchitz fled France for the U.S. and for the next 30 years concentrated on giant allegorical figures from Greek mythology and the Old Testament. Lipchitz was buried in Jerusalem where 300 of his sculptures have been...
...experimental program was being carried out by Dr. Ernst Rodin, chief of neurology at the Lafayette Clinic. Rodin's project involved using patients committed to state hospitals who had not responded to therapy. Rodin proposed to treat the patients with an experimental German drug or use psychosurgery...
...salt beard, his short way with bores and fools and his boundless kindness to younger photographers in whom he recognized signs of talent. His was an enormous life, comparable in range to Picasso's; his portrait subjects spanned modern history, from the actress Eleanora Duse and Auguste Rodin to Eleanor Roosevelt. The projects ran from a laxative advertisement (done before 1900) to what is still the most popular photography show in history, The Family of Man, which he selected for New York's Museum of Modern Art in January 1955 and which was seen by more than...