Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their burdens, they tended to look upon their foreign masters with both humor and indulgence. It was the strange habits of the white men that intrigued them. Hats and shoes were something new, so one Madagascan artist sculpted a colonial wearing nothing else. In the Congo, an anonymous sculptor did a thick-lipped white sailor guzzling a mug of beer. The sailor wears a cap, a striped shirt, and seems properly in uniform-except that he is naked from the waist down...
...denominations of Protestants, and the Guild Chapel (the Chapel of Christ the Servant), which will be dedicated to industry, trade unions, guilds and management associations. Already in use is a small Lady chapel in the crypt, its altar splendid with a bronze and glass cross by Sculptor Geoffrey Clarke, who was obviously inspired by the charred timber cross still standing in the ruins. In the crypt each day, lunch-hour services are held for a congregation of 400 to 500. The congregation plays an important part in these services: one day the lesson may be read by Sir William Lyons...
Since he is painter, sculptor, writer, and a poet of sorts as well, his colleagues are apt to wax rhapsodic over him. "He is the Leonardo of our time," says Michigan's Eero Saarinen. "He has provided enough for a whole generation to live on," says Walter Gropius. "The world's greatest architect," says Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer. Adds Arthur Drexler, director of the Department of Architecture and Design at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art: "I go through phases in my thoughts about his work. In these, I sit back and think Corbu is even...
Madmen! He built a studio and house for his friend, Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, which Lipchitz recalls somewhat plaintively as "a good studio, but he would not allow me to put any of mv sculptures along the walls. He was such a Calvinist in those days." He managed to put up a model Workers' City near Bordeaux, but the buildings so offended the local authorities that they refused to furnish them with water for six years. In 1927 Corbu, with his cousin and partner Pierre Jeanneret, submitted a plan for the League of Nations. As he bitterly wrote...
...Domino house contained a principle that was to be basic to all of his planning thereafter. The six-column skeleton relieved the facades and the interior walls of support functions: they could thus be moved and molded at will, giving the architect all the prerogatives of the sculptor. The Domino houses were never built, but they "enabled us to say: 'There are no walls in the house. What shall...