Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rumanian Sculptor Constantin Brancusi had to pay $4,000 to bring his Bird in Flight into the U. S. (TIME, March 7, 1927). Works of art are duty free. But Sculptor Brancusi's bird had neither head, feet nor feathers. It was four and a half feet of bronze which swooped up from its base like a slender jet of flame. Customs Inspector Kracke said it was not art; merely "a manufacture of metal . . . held dutiable at 40% ad valorem." The press bantered, jibed. Indignant modernists wrote abstruse, defensive paragraphs. Sculptor Brancusi complained to the Customs Court...
Last week Sculptor Brancusi won his case. In its decision the Customs Court dogmatically defined art: "It is a work of art by reason of its symmetrical shape, artistic outlines and beauty of finish." Even the most wretched of logicians knows enough not to repeat the same term in both subject and definition ("art" -"artistic outline"). But Sculptor Brancusi had his money refunded...
...sculptor once portrayed Art Young with one side of his face crying, the other side laughing. The object of both these emotions in Art Young is the world, not himself. About the latter he entertains chiefly a healthy curiosity, a self-respecting skepticism. Like most artists, he finds the money thing the most troublesome, but like few he has learned this general truth: "Nature never composes a scene just right for an artist. Even a mountain must be shifted to one side...
John Dewey's bust was fashioned by the able hands of Sculptor Jacob Epstein. Among those whose gift it was were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Clarence Darrow, Economist Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, Sociologist Owen Reed Lovejoy, Educator-Scientist David Starr Jordan, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise...
...confused with Emil Fuchs, painter and sculptor, of Manhattan...