Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brandt), a painter and sculptor who exhibits from Berlin to Boston. Further more, as these capable translations prove, Grass is not least of all a poet of aggressive imagination and an ironic torque of temperament...
...Heartily Hungarian in mood (it is the capital of the Magyar Autonomous Region), Cluj is an intellectual center that serves Bucharest in much the same way that Cracow does Warsaw, or Leningrad Moscow. There the works of Absurdist Eugene Ionesco get a frequent hearing, and the late Rumanian-born sculptor Constantin Brancusi is much admired...
Before a crowd of incredulous students, Alexander Calder, the American sculptor famous for his mobiles, supervised the first stages in the assembly of a 40-foot-high "stabile" (fixed mobile) at M.I.T. yesterday...
Died. Paul Manship, 80, front-ranking U.S. sculptor, widely acclaimed for his heroic-sized, neoclassic figures (notably, the 15-ft. Prometheus in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center), but also for finely wrought bronze medals (World War II's Merchant Marine Medal) and busts (Franklin D. Roosevelt); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Speed of Light. Today kinetic artists see their art as expressing not only the machine but also nature itself. Says Critic-Sculptor George Rickey: "Nature is rarely still. She follows natural laws: gravity, Newton's laws of motion, the traffic laws of topology." Gabo proclaimed: "Look at a ray of sun-the quietest of the silent strengths-it runs 300,000 kilometers in a second. Our starry sky -does anyone hear it?" But whether attuned to the music of the spheres or the metallic clanking of makeshift machines, artists by the score are now trying to make poetry...