Word: sculptor
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...year-old sculptor spoke about her life's philosophy and experience as an artist...
...sculptor repeatedly stressed the necessity for artists to persevere and have confidence in their talent. She also spoke of the need for greater encouragement for budding artists...
...plot concerns Thomas Hudson (Scott), a famous sculptor, twice divorced, living in the Bahamas in 1940. Insofar as Hudson's story is a love story, it refreshingly focuses on his love for his three sons by both marriages (Hart Bochner, Michael-James Wixted, Brad Savage). During a long visit by the boys early in the film, he painfully reaches toward them across gaps of isolation, resentment and pride-his own and sometimes theirs. Later, when the oldest son is shot down while serving as a fighter pilot, Hudson has a bittersweet interlude with the boy's mother (affectingly...
...furnished setting of the novel is Nashville, Tenn., during the postwar years. There Tewksbury teaches at a university, bends elbows with the horsy set and conducts the great love affair of his life. Significantly, it is with a girl from his own home town, now married to a rich sculptor. In Rozelle Hardcastle, Warren has forged a considerable Southern heroine-beautiful, cunning, passionate and full of what the author calls "the mystic promise," which must be enjoyed "purely as an art, as an illusion, as a complex poetry of the soul and the gonads." In her middle age, a rich...
...wood carver is more limited by the size of his raw material than any other sculptor. A log is a log; it cannot be melted down or extended. One can order marble to size, but no tree in China or Japan could possibly give a sculptor a large enough balk of timber to carve something as big as Michelangelo's David. Even if there was such a tree, there would be insuperable problems of technique. Wood is grainy. It favors continuous, compressed shapes with a strong axis along the grain. Anything that sticks sideways from the block...