Word: sculptor
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...gathered media representatives were treated to a preview of the 10- foot John Harvard marionette and its creator,Cambridge sculptor Bert Snow. Snow said that his"kinetic sculpture" would be roaming through thecrowd at the floating birthday party on September3, shaking hands with members of the audience,which official estimates place at 50,000 to100,000 people...
...link between such things and the surrealist delight in dream images is the theme of this show, which contrasts old curiosities with a range of modern work that runs from Joseph Cornell boxes to a weirdly beautiful reflection on nature and culture by the contemporary Italian sculptor Mario Merz, involving a motorbike with buffalo horns for handlebars, a zebra's head and a string of neon numbers...
...fleshed out with a selection of paintings and drawings. Anywhere else, this would be a show on its own. One would expect such material to dominate any exhibition it appeared in. But here Durer has competition from an artist not nearly so well known outside Germany as himself: the sculptor Veit Stoss...
Stoss was without question the greatest German sculptor of the Renaissance. His life carried Nuremberg sculpture out of the Gothic into the future, for it was extremely long: he was born before 1450, perhaps as early as 1438, and died in 1533. He was said to have been arrogant, prickly and a freethinker, but an exceptional teacher; his artistic disciples in Nuremberg were many. His relations with the powers that were do not seem to have been easy. In 1477 he renounced his Nuremberg citizenship and departed for Cracow, in Poland, where he worked for nearly 20 years...
...plainspoken portrait of a plump earl on the Grand Tour raising his hat to shield himself from the Florentine sun, to the boot-licking Edwardian rodomontade of John Singer Sargent's huge portrait of the Duke of Marlborough and Consuelo Vanderbilt; from a marble mock-Greek portrait by the sculptor Francis Chantrey of two woodcocks he had shot at Holkham Hall, to the Calke State Bed, a sumptuous four-poster whose hangings of gold-embroidered blue-and-cream silk were recently found in their original box in Calke Abbey, as fresh as the day they left China nearly 250 years...