Word: sculptor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...archetypal postwar sculptor, other than Picasso, was Alberto Giacometti. His images of the figure, as much Egyptian as modern, with their ravaged bronze surfaces and their august sense of withdrawal from touch, are well represented here. The postwar years released a wave of damaged-figure sculpture, none of it quite up to Giacometti's level. But metaphors of violence enabled certain painters of the figure to do some remarkable work, whose results would continue to be recycled by others into the '80s. There was practically nothing in '80s neo-Expressionism that approached the tumultuous energy of Karel Appel, whose...
...best-selling writer undergoing some serious midlife changes. First, he left his well-bred, moneyed American wife of nine years, Antonia Phillips, 43 (with whom he has two sons, ages 8 and 10), for a younger American girlfriend. She is Isabel Fonseca, the financially robust, thirtyish daughter of Uruguayan sculptor Gonzalo Fonseca and granddaughter of the late New York philanthropist Jacob Kaplan...
...Wednesday afternoon, if current plans hold, the little known Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission will gather yet again on Capitol Hill and, in nervous reverence, study secret photos of a 1-ft. by 3-ft. model for a bas-relief sculpture. The finished artwork, by California sculptor Robert Graham, would be three times that size and grace the entrance to the memorial. It is a work showing a triumphant Roosevelt riding in an open car down Pennsylvania Avenue after his 1933 Inauguration...
...exhibit at the Fogg Museum shows an admirable interest in a nineteenth century artist who has been mostly forgotten by history. But the exhibition attempts to cover too much ideological ground, and unfortunately trivializes its subject. Edmonia Lewis, the first African-American woman to make her living as a sculptor, was the daughter of a Black father and a Chippewa Indian mother. Longfellow, though his reputation has been eclipsed by that of Walt Whitman in the past century, was the most famous living American poet of his time...
...some interesting pieces, including first editions of Phyllis Wheatley's poetry and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, as well as some fascinating daguerreotypes of African slaves. These artifacts, though historically relevant, relate only vaguely to Lewis' life. To be fair, historians know very little about the sculptor's background. But "Images and Identities" could improve by delving a little deeper into its central subject rather than focusing on the realities of all women or of all African-Americans...