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...What interests me is a series of shocks and encounters a person can have," confesses Sculptor George Segal. For nearly three decades, the master of plaster has recorded those seismic occasions, and in George Segal (Rizzoli; 379 pages; $65), Art Historians Sam Hunter and Don Hawthorne have gathered the best of them, from '50s paintings like Dead Chicken to his life-size casts of individuals trapped in time. Throughout his long career, the artist has trumpeted his message of alienation...
...names of 58,007 Americans dead or missing in the war. Nonetheless, many veterans felt that the wall was not uplifting, not heroic enough. So officials of the memorial fund risked the wrath of those who liked the wall as it was and asked Frederick Hart, 40, a Washington sculptor who had finished third in the initial competition, to design an added element. Last week his statue of seven-foot-tall bronze figures was set in place opposite the wall to await a formal unveiling on Nov. 9. Hart depicts three typical fighting men "gazing at a vision...
...naively been said in the past, "set off" by the "discovery" of tribal art; the perception of one reinforced the perception of the other. Sometimes the most striking "family" likenesses appear between works that have no possible connection. A case in point is Russian Constructivist Sculptor Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine's Symphony No. 1, 1913, a figure done in swoops and slats of painted wood that one would swear-if there were not clear evidence that he had I never seen it - was based on an openwork Baga bird headI dress from Guinea in the Musee de 1'Homme...
...reason: carving has been regarded as a sacred occupation since A.D. 900, when the Maoris first sailed in their canoes from other Polynesian islands to the place they called "the land of the long white cloud." To create the taonga whakairo, or decorated treasures prized by the Maoris, a sculptor was expected to combine artistic skill with such qualities as leadership, courage, religious learning and generosity. So revered was the artist that he worked surrounded by student acolytes and apprentices, while women, who were regarded as inferior beings, were prohibited from watching him in the act of creation...
...Pegasus by James Croak, featuring a stuffed horse with paper wings crashing through the metal roof of another '63 Chevrolet; The Bicentennial Welfare Cadillac by James Roche, decked out with mirrors and flags; and Ghetto Blaster by Scott Prescott, an Impala converted into a menacing gray tank. French Sculptor Arman has a towering indictment: his Long Term Parking piles 60 cars on top of one another and embeds them in concrete (MOCA shows a model...