Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will you be good enough to correct an item which appeared in your issue of April 2 [p. 13]? I refer to the note about Ivan Mestrovitch, the eminent Jugoslav sculptor, of whom you say that "he has been retained by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation at high fees to execute the plaques which accompany its $25,000 peace prizes...
...took a walk all around the town investigating maters and petted a beautiful black pussey who as soon as I went away would run after me untill I peted her. I saw a sculptor shop. Learnt bible verses. We then played with boats on a pond with the commerce of stones for myself...
There was an old sculptor named Phidias Whose statues were perfectly hideous. He made Aphrodite Without any nightie Which shocked the ultrafastidious...
Such behavior may now seem frivolous and insane to all civilized persons; it would have seemed totally incredible to any Greek, at the time when the unknown sculptor made his statue. To the wise Greeks, who lacked the prurient estheticism of modern magazine cover art, the male face or figure was, in its more austere and tempered contours, perhaps a trifle more beautiful than its female counterpart. Either one, when dexterously transmuted into marble, could be regarded with an impersonal regard for its objective beauty. They, the sculptor himself, would not have regarded the performance of Greenville's citizens...
...late Carl Akeley, sculptor, taxidermist, proved to the Johnsons that lions that have never been hunted by man will not attack him. He showed them a valley inhabited by a dozen or more such lions, enormous cats, playing and sleeping. THEY WENT IN AMONG THE LIONS, spent two whole days photographing them. (The movies are now being shown on Broadway). Had only one lion attacked them, they could not have escaped death in the general battle which would have ensued. The native porters, watching from a nearby hill became convinced that their masters had a godlike, supernatural power. All this...