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...James and his mind were laid to rest in Zurich's Fluntern Cemetery in 1941, the grave distinguished only by a small headstone. For years Manhattan Art Dealer Lee Nordness had thought that the grand man deserved a better monument, so at last he arranged for Sculptor Milton Hebald to do the job. Last week on "Bloomsday," they unveiled a bronze statue of the author as an old man meditating with his book over the graves of James and Nora Joyce...
...only woman to receive an honorary degree was Martha Graham, the dancer and choreographer, who was honored with a Doctor of Arts. Alexander Calder, the sculptor, also received a Doctor of Arts, and poet-critic Mark Van Doren, Professor of English, Emeritus, at Columbia University received a Doctor of Letters. Also honored was Saul Lieberman, professor of Palestinian Literature and Institutions and Dean of the Graduate Department and of the Rabbinical School of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, who received a Doctor of Letters...
...grew up in the very heartland of Italian Renaissance sculpture, near the statue-bedecked city of Florence. He didn't throw rocks at Michelangelos or Donatellos, but for the young Italian sculptor Marino Marini, the past was a prison. "An artist who wants to be modern can't live in a museum city," he says. "With all this great authority around, it was difficult...
...Marini fled to Paris, incubated his talents with the help of artists like Picasso and Julio González for one year, and then chose Milan as his work place when he returned home to become eventually Italy's most important modern sculptor. Yet his works, for all their modernity and energetic eclecticism, look as if they predated Michelangelo by a thousand years (see color pages...
...Encouraged by his rebellious elder brother, I. J. Singer, young Bashevis thrust increasingly beyond the limits of his Orthodox childhood into the world of intellectuals and artists. He records with touching candor the delight he felt when as an adolescent he first wandered into the studio of a famous sculptor and discovered a stunning new society that honored the body as fervently as his father had honored the soul...