Word: sculptor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...becomes apparent how much space was left between their lines-and, occasionally, what interesting talents were excluded from the canon. At that point, artists who had been around all the time are greeted as if they were new arrivals. One of these, at present, is Beverly Pepper, 51, a sculptor who has lived in Italy for the past 24 years and has two shows of her work running in New York: indoor pieces and projects at the downtown André Emmerich Gallery, and "monumental" steel sculpture on the terrace of Hammarskjöld Plaza...
...just have to learn to live rich," she says. She and her husband, Author-Journalist Bill Pepper, observe that rule diligently in their 14th century castle, where they entertain spiritedly. But her present work leaves no room for doubt that after a late and faltering start as a sculptor (she began in 1960, carving up the trunks of trees that had been felled in her garden), Pepper today is one of the most serious and disciplined American artists of her generation...
Died. Dame Barbara Hepworth, 72, British abstract sculptor; in a fire that ravaged her studio at St. Ives, Cornwall. A fellow traveler with the small band of venturesome Britons-including Sculptor Henry Moore and her second husband, Painter Ben Nicholson-who pioneered abstract art in the 1930s, Hepworth established her trademark in 1931 when she pierced a hole in a small carving to seize the viewer's eye. "I thought it was a small miracle," she later recalled. "A new vision was opened." Holes and hollows, sometimes painted to accentuate their depth, turned up in most...
...Monolith. Success sits easily on Caro. Few living sculptors have achieved more of it. At 51, a twinkling, compact man with a boxer's fleshy nose and a pepper-and-salt beard, he is by general consent the best sculptor to have emerged from England since Henry Moore. One powerful wing of American Establishment taste-the Greenberg circle, which includes such critics as Michael Fried and curators like Boston's Kenworth Moffett and MOMA'S Rubin-is disposed to think of him as the most important sculptor alive: the sole inheritor to David Smith. This has been...
...floor, anodized glass cubes and characterless Formica skins. To the extent that sculpture can get away from its primordial conditions of weight, thickness, opacity and immobility, it did so in the '60s, and often with an annoyingly academic self-righteousness. Nevertheless, a few of the best sculptors of the time, like Mark di Suvero and Richard Serra, obdurately resisted this trend, and we now seem to have got back to the point where we can look at a massive heavy shape without thinking it backward and funky, or parroting the once obligatory cliches about Stonehenge. An exhibition very much...