Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hate this age," says Sculptor Reuben Nakian. "It's very cold here. So you have to train yourself to ignore it." For years, Nakian has been training exuberantly at his Stamford, Conn., studio by designing huge, flagrant evocations of Greek nymphs and goddesses (see color opposite). Modern U.S. sculpture in classical themes seems a bit like vodka martinis in Grecian urns. Yet Nakian's polylithic Ledas, Hecubas and Olympias are lusted after by some of the most adventurous contemporary curators and collectors in the country...
...Angeles County Museum's mammoth "American Sculpture of the Sixties" exhibit. The work, he says, is meant to symbolize "the birth of the universe; like coming out of woman, all life comes out of the female." Also last week, the Art Institute of Chicago opened a 27-sculptor summer exhibit called "A Generation of Innovation." Curator A. James Speyer noted that "works of virtue by many noted sculptors are not included be cause of adherence to traditions earlier than our period." Still, Nakian's four-piece plaster Judgment of Paris (consisting of Paris, Minerva, Juno and Venus...
...Braques, but also works by Lichtenstein and Warhol-plus 17 works by contemporary Dusseldorf artists. The area's leading modern-art collector, aristocratic Frau Fann Schniewind, has amassed a $1,000,000 collection that runs the gamut from a white-plaster woman painting her fingernails by U.S. Pop Sculptor George Segal to a white disk studded with a forest of white nails casting elliptical shadows by Gunther Uecker...
...hall's entrance is graced by a hand some piece of sculpture by Masayuki Nagare, Japan's foremost sculptor - and a Takamatsu resident...
...minority, Marisol's version was "shocking." They favored an idealized version of Father Damien as a young man with a tiny child clutching at his knee, submitted by Sculptor Nathan Cabot Hale. The Hawaiian House of Representatives voted to back Hale's model, and the whole Hawaiian archipelago began taking sides...