Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rain, always lovers' weather onstage, drives Sylvia into Stan's Greenwich Village flat. She (Marian Seldes) is a bookkeeper who poses as an actress on the basis of her sessions at group-therapy psychodrama. He (Gene Troobnick) is a sportswear buyer who poses as a sculptor by coating tennis rackets, mannequin legs and xylophones with plaster of paris. It is not so much the chemistry of love that fuses the pair as the mutual palpitating fear that they may be cultural dropouts...
...three marvelous people" who had been helping him with the column: "Stephen Shadegg, who has turned into a successful author; Tony Smith, who was on my staff for many years; and my old standby Karl Hess, who is now turning more of his time and talent into becoming a sculptor...
Lenckhardt's realistic anatomy owes much to pioneering Renaissance draftsmen like the 15th century Florentine Pollaiuolo (1432-98). The painter, sculptor and jeweler daringly studied and depicted muscles and organs of skinned cadavers in an era when the church still frowned on dissection. His Battle of Naked Men is essentially a swashbuckling anatomy lesson, with its mythological figures ingeniously posed to show off the male body in as many positions as possible. There is no question that Pollaiuolo, one of the earliest artists to try his hand at engraving, considered the finished work extraordinary. It was the first print...
...Jeweler Harry Winston fancied diamond sparkles, Rex Harrison (Dr. Dolittle) spoke up for animal heads, Cartoonist Charles Schulz wanted a pine branch atop Snoopy's doghouse, Julia Child recommended pots and pans on a stainless-steel tree, and Leontyne Price wanted her tree covered in opera programs. Pop Sculptor Marisol,-37, was one of the few who eschewed a personal trademark, imagining a tree lying on its side in bed dreaming of its fellow trees in the forest. Hallmark set one up just that way, and-well, it looked like a Marisol trademark anyway...
With each passing year, Rodin emerges more clearly as the most profound, most expressively varied sculptor since Michelangelo, and here is a book that demonstrates why. In one superb photograph after another, the reader can trace the astonishing career of an artist who, though basically in the great classic tradition of Western sculpture, broke through formal bonds all his life. The text, an admirably incisive critique, enhances this tribute to Rodin on the 50th anniversary of his death...