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...recovered what may well be long-lost samples of that buried treasure: two remarkably beautiful and well-preserved statues of a young man (kouros in ancient Greek) and a maiden (kore), at least one of which is almost certainly a missing masterwork of the well-known 6th century B.C. sculptor Aristion...
...unabashed egalitarian," as he puts it, Manley grew up in an atmosphere of politics and art (his English-born mother is a sculptor). After service in the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II, he studied at the London School of Economics, then went to work for the BBC. His heroes: "Dad, Martin Luther King and Harold Laski." Manley returned to the island in 1952, became a labor negotiator, and did not run for Parliament until 1967. Though Manley today is "looking outward" to Third World nations (including Cuba), he still has his mind set on launching Jamaica firmly...
...answer was to turn it into an exhibition center. The fortress's ancient terraces, overlooking Florence to the north and the tranquil, cypress-dotted hills behind San Miniato to the south, were potentially a superb site for the open-air installation of large-scale sculpture-provided that a sculptor could be found whose work could confront, and survive, the austere monumentality of the building itself. To Florence's civic leaders, there was only one choice: Henry Moore...
...Belvedere. It runs through the summer, until Sept. 30, and no matter how familiar Henry Moore's work may be to the international art audience, this is perhaps the most important show to be held in Italy this year. Certainly it is the most spectacular. "If a sculptor had ?20 million to build the ideal site for his work," says Moore, now 74, "it wouldn't be as good as this...
...into the pelvis like a flying buttress, is to realize how well Lehmbruck could surround a figure with active space instead of merely displacing air with bronze. Perhaps if Lehmbruck had lived to reconcile the contradictions in his art, he would have been - against his expectations - a better abstract sculptor than he was a figurative...