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Died. Paul Manship, 80, front-ranking U.S. sculptor, widely acclaimed for his heroic-sized, neoclassic figures (notably, the 15-ft. Prometheus in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center), but also for finely wrought bronze medals (World War II's Merchant Marine Medal) and busts (Franklin D. Roosevelt); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Speed of Light. Today kinetic artists see their art as expressing not only the machine but also nature itself. Says Critic-Sculptor George Rickey: "Nature is rarely still. She follows natural laws: gravity, Newton's laws of motion, the traffic laws of topology." Gabo proclaimed: "Look at a ray of sun-the quietest of the silent strengths-it runs 300,000 kilometers in a second. Our starry sky -does anyone hear it?" But whether attuned to the music of the spheres or the metallic clanking of makeshift machines, artists by the score are now trying to make poetry...
Slave of Perception. Giacometti was never satisfied by the search. He considered none of his sculptures complete, often in a frenzy of frustration ended up smashing them by the dozen. Only about 200 originals exist today. Said the sculptor: "If I work from life, I see a little bit at a time. And it is al ways changing. Try as I may, it never looks the same to me. So how can I finish?" He became the slave of his own changing perceptions. At times, in pursuit of a likeness, he carved the plaster until it disintegrated into dust between...
Most vocal was 74-year-old Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz. "It seems to me," said he, "that the artist in this country is not protected at all. Nobody takes care of him. He's a kind of black sheep." In the U.S., if a painting clashes with the wallpaper, anybody can paint over it, "even a Cézanne." If the hearing wound up more voluble than valuable, Lipchitz contributed at least one astute observation on why his colleagues feel pushed around. "You have to count with the nature of the artist," said the sculptor. "We are all more...
Died. Frederick Kiesler, 76, visionary architect and sculptor, Vienna-born designer (with Partner Armand Bartos) of Jerusalem's underground Shrine of the Book, who is also credited with fathering off-Broadway's theater-in-the-round; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As tiny (4 ft. 10 in.) as a sparrow, Kiesler spent his life seeking "a continuously flowing world" in such structures as his free-form 1934 "Endless House," which had "no beginning and no end, like the human body...