Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East Germany, the Artists' Association Congress broke up in disagreement over "problems of reshaping life in our society." The dissidents were led by Sculptor Fritz Cremer, a longtime Communist, who called for greater artistic freedom in choosing form and content, and aired the heretical notion that doubt is a positive element in artistic thinking. Party bosses immediately accused Cremer of "negating the unity of politics, economics and culture...
...Sinnock patiently explained that the initials were his. Now there is a flurry over the new Kennedy half-dollar, and it's the Reds again. Complaints are coming into the Denver mint that there is a hammer and sickle on the coin. Wearily, the mint's Chief Sculptor and Engraver Gilroy Roberts, 59, explains: "It's my monogram, a G. and an R. in script, combined. It might look like two sickles maybe. But it looks nothing like a hammer and sickle at all. You've got to have a slanted mind to see that there...
Split skulls and bashed-in faces underscore the theme of violence in this French sculptor's first one-man show in New York...
Conner is a Kansan educated at the University of Nebraska. As a sculptor, he is represented at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. And as a filmmaker, he is no Puritan. His Cosmic Ray, four minutes long, is a collection of quick glimpses of photographically virgin (unairbrushed) nudes interspersed with scenes of naval engagements, Mickey Mouse, rocket planes, and the flag-raising at Iwo Jima. One girl rides a broomstick, a witch without a stitch. Some seem to be twisting with the camera. One lies supine, her hands slipping off her panties...
Died. William Muir, 61, North Dakota-born sculptor (TIME, March 13) whose works, inspired by seaweed and seed pod and carved in kingwood, walnut, mahogany and cocobolo, had combined the artless beauty of driftwood with the dynamic tension characteristic of Arp and Moore; following heart surgery; in Pittsburgh...