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Died. Baron Erik Fleming, 60, court silversmith of Sweden, architect, sculptor and painter, whose more than 7,000 elegantly wrought coffee sets, platters and vases in gold and silver won him international fame, and whose strikingly simple, mass-produced designs were reflected in household appliances in thousands of postwar homes; in Stockholm...
Hopeful of finding a place for art even in the market, the Uris brothers last month installed a bleak bronze by Sculptor Henry Moore in the stark, cavernous lobby of a building they had erected on the site of the old Ritz-Carlton Hotel. The bronze was Moore's controversial King and Queen (TIME. March i), a cleft-headed, paper-thin pair of half-humans on a bench. After the superintendent reported that 75% of the tenants were saying unkind things about it, the Uris brothers resignedly had the bronze hauled back to the dealer. "I still think...
...through Genoa and far beyond. Hundreds of Italian athletes sent in bronze and copper trophies to be melted down for the statue. The Italian navy and merchant marine offered bronze scrap from Italian ships sunk in World War II, and from one poor woman came a single copper coin. Sculptor Guido Galletti, 61, labored for nearly a year to model and cast a figure eight feet tall to stand on a pedestal ten feet high...
With that hard line, German Sculptor Gerhard Marcks dismisses most modern art. Marcks is a Lutheran in religion, a classicist in sculpture, and anything but bored. At 65 he is laboring mightily to produce the best sculptures of his career. Last week 36 of them were on view at the London Arts Council Gallery. Items...
...more powerful sculptor would probably not have excited such diverse reactions. Nor would one less powerful, since lesser men strive for the obvious, which Marcks scorns. His art. like that of the ancient Greeks, chiefly celebrates the wonder and joy of being alive, of being able to stand...