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There he painted scenes of the Old West in a brawny and fluid style reminiscent of Thomas Hart Benton. As a sculptor he produced bronzes of cowboys, Indians, bucking horses and stampeding cattle. The casual eye is reminded of the work of Frederic Remington; the more discerning see the energy and muscular humanism of the Renaissance statues. In Harry Jackson (Abrams; 308 pages; $125) Author-Editors Larry Pointer and Donald Goddard sample Jackson's abstract work and offer a generous selection of his realism along with a biography of one of the mavericks of American...
...artist's expertise does not embarrass Thai antique dealers, who often pass off Yas' reproductions as originals. While the sculptor's work is so highly regarded that he charges between $1,000 and $2,000 for his best stone figures, the dealers who peddle them as antiques can ask-and get-up to ten times as much...
...British collector, Islay Lyons, who calls Yas "the greatest living sculptor in Thailand" and has commissioned several originals from him, deplores the fact that his "energy goes into making fakes...
...even much of the dialogue are almost exactly the same. But the emotional effect of the screen version of Whose Life Is It Anyway? is quite the opposite of the play on which it is based. One left Brian Clark's drama feeling that Ken Harrison, the promising sculptor whom an auto accident had turned into a quadriplegic, was tragically correct to insist, against all the established medical and legal verities, on being allowed to die. One leaves the movie feeling that he is tragically wrong in that determination...
This is particularly true in the context Director Badham has created for him in the movie. Onstage the sculptor never moved from his bed, and his confinement powerfully reinforced the pathos of his condition. In an obvious attempt to make his movie move, Badham insists on getting Ken up and stirring in a wheelchair at every logical opportunity. But this continual scooting about in hospital corridors undercuts Ken's arguments for being allowed to die, for it illustrates how much he could participate in life with a little help from his friends. One can never entirely reject his arguments...