Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meantime, Sculptor Frazier was using vacuum cleaners to inflate his 50-ft.-tall "soft skyscraper," attended by scores of shoving children. "The fun is in the struggle," exhorted Art Critic Harold Rosenberg as the plastic building listed flaccidly to and fro and finally stood erect. With that, Frazier let it topple over on the beach, where, with cries of "Kill it!", the children ripped it to shreds in a scene right out of Lord of the Flies...
...Ardsley, N.Y. After driving out with Executor Arthur Cantor, a Broad way pressagent and producer (The Tenth Man), the sisters chose the cemetery's biggest plot, which cost some $48,000 and lay opposite the grave cf Composer George Gershwin. They also planned a monument designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi...
Cantor's fellow executors, Lawyer Morris Shilensky and Broker Charles Wohlstetter, told Cantor that he had no business accompanying the next of kin to the cemetery. Then, troubled because no price had been agreed upon with Sculptor Noguchi for his design, the executors demanded written notice from the sisters that they would indemnify the executors should the courts rule that the sum spent for burial was more than "a reasonable amount...
...model of every artist's dream. "Imagine," wrote French Dramatist Henri Lavedan, "a woman with a body that suggests the perfection of Greek sculpture." "An antique marble," marveled Sculptor Antoine Bourdelle. "The Parthenon itself!" exclaimed Critic Carl van Vechten. She was America's first great dancer, Isadora Duncan...
...Rodin. Even their first meeting was Olympian. "My pilgrimage to Rodin," she recalled, "resembled that of Psyche seeking the God Pan in his grotto, only I was not asking the way to Eros, but to Apollo. He showed his works with the simplicity of the very great." The aging sculptor returned her admiration with a passion, sketched Isadora and her pupils countless times, once sighed: "If only I could have had models like this when I was younger." Isadora responded in kind: "What a pity! Surely Art and all life would have been richer thereby...