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...demons stood behind them: the creeping Jew, the scheming Bolshevik, the Negro with his thick lips and saxophone, the slavering pervert. In here it was all David and the Apollo Belvedere, noble simplicity and calm grandeur as $ interpreted by such heirs of Michelangelo and Polyclitus as Hitler's favorite sculptor Arno Breker and his court painter Adolf Ziegler. What kind of Germany, the two shows asked, do you want...
...play's main character Rubek (Alvin Epstein), an Ibsen figure, is an aging sculptor disillusioned with his work and the idle life that wealth and fame have brought him. Rubek and his young wife Maya (Stephanie Roth) have become estranged. Maya cannot provide him with artistic or spiritual inspiration, and Rubek cannot satiate her hedonistic needs...
Events come to a head at a mountain spa in Rubek's native Norway, where the couple attempt to find the solution to their problems in two of their fellow guests. The self-reflecting sculptor is reunited with Irene (played by both Elzbieta Czyzewska and Sheryl Sutton), the model who was the inspiration for his earlier work and his last hope for rekindling his artistic impulse. Similarly, Maya sees her salvation in Ulfheim (Mario Arrambide), a huge strapping bearhunter who represents the zest for life which has escaped Rubek...
...just anyone can be a Gene Ketelhohn, though. He seems to have a nose for garbage. Composition for the sculptor is sometimes just a matter of being in the right place at the right time. Ketelhohn says of his Revere Beach #1, "It was like God threw this thing up on the beach: stones and seaweed all done up with wire. All I had to do was put a frame...
Subirachs' austere, squared-off style is the antithesis of Gaudi's ornamented surrealism. "My work has nothing to do with Gaudi's," says the sculptor, 63. Although Gaudi left a 1911 sketch of the Passion facade, Subirachs changed the arrangement of the sculptures and added controversial touches like a macabre skull below the crucifix. He gave his Roman centurions helmets playfully copied from Gaudi-designed chimney pots on a nearby building. Subirachs denounces his critics as "hooligans, snobs." Ironically, Subirachs in 1965 signed a letter protesting the basilica's continuation. But when offered the sculptural commission, he changed his mind...