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...Felpham," he wrote in 1800 to his sculptor friend John Flaxman from his new home in the countryside, "is a sweet place for Study, because it is more Spiritual than London. Heaven opens here on all sides her golden Gates: her windows are not obstructed by vapours: voices of Celestial inhabitants are more distinctly heard, & their forms more distinctly seen . . . Now Begins a New life, because another covering of Earth is shaken off. I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive." Outside the madhouse or the monastery, no Englishman alive then-and no European...
...Happen; in Cambria, Calif. His father in Soviet Georgia taught him swordmaking, but Papashvily washed dishes and raised chickens after reaching Ellis Island in 1922. His U.S.-born wife Helen put his misadventures to paper in 1944, and four more books followed. Papashvily also found success as a sculptor of animals...
...international fuss over the powerfully muscled youth, actually a 4th century B.C. sculpture from Greece's Golden Age, is not the usual art dispute over authenticity. The experts agree that the graceful figure is either the only existing original work by the master sculptor Lysippus or, at least, from his school. At issue is whether the statue was smuggled illegally out of Italy and whether California's J. Paul Getty Museum, which acquired the statue earlier this year in London for $3.9 million, must pay a California sales tax or a Colorado use tax -or neither...
...traditional problem of dandyism is that it usually leaves so little room for work: it is the work. Not with Nevelson. She will be 78 next year, and there is no more prolific or respected sculptor in America. Her boxes and walls, filled with accumulated wooden fragments painted a uniform black, white or gold, are among the fixtures of the modern imagination. But at an age when many artists are content to repeat the clichés they invented, Nevelson keeps on extending herself. The proof of this-if it were needed-is the centerpiece of her current show...
...never into the earth. The Artisia is "nonorganic and very likely of human origin." This plant, covered with whirligigs, curlicues and other designs associated with 18th century Baroque, bears a strong resemblance to the productions of certain modern artists. Artisia Calderii recalls the work of the late American sculptor Alexander Calder; Artisia Arpii shows an amazing similarity to the collages of Jean...