Word: sculptoring
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...growing number of young American and Canadian artists. During the past few years they have been adding a third dimension to photography by sealing photographs in plastic, molding them into shapes and building them into complex structures that transform the original picture. Most of these sculptor-photographers work on the West Coast, and many have studied at U.C.L.A. with Robert Hei-necken, at 38 the old master of the genre. This week some 50 of their pieces go on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art in a show called "Photography into Sculpture" that will later move...
...German, Grass is a nonconformist in more important ways. His country reveres specialization. Grass has exuberantly sprawled out as minor poet, polemical dramatist, artist, sculptor and jazz musician. He has persistently made fun of the Establishment and the past. In the matter of language, he is a total revolutionary. Too often in Germany, culture has suggested lofty abstractions and an aristocratic style. Grass has always liked to stand the German language on its head and shake it. The result is Rabelaisian horselaughs, horrifying images and earthy sights, smells and sounds that make his visions of yesterday as immediate...
...Melvin Edwards, 32, who was born in Texas. He has received seven grants, studied at both U.C.L.A. and U.S.C., is currently teaching at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, and has recently had a show at Manhattan's Whitney Museum. He disclaims any polemic intent. Still, a fellow sculptor remembers that when they tramped the streets of Watts together and Edwards started collecting bits of wire and jagged metal among the rubble of back lots, he called them "lynch fragments...
...Merilee's oven, and filled with breadcrumbs and a surprise, with comfrey and tomatoes, with currants and dill and with a delicious white powder from the cabinet which not even Merilee could identify; and when the love of her twenty-three summers, Sam Sam the sculptor man and manager of motor hotels and graduate of the world's second most prestigious business school, when Sam Bollo, sitting at the head of the table nude but for a medallion on his furry breast and a feather in his black hair, when Sam Bollo had lifted the lid from the pumpkin...
Married. Rebecca Welles, 25, daughter of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, a recent drama graduate of the University of Puget Sound in Washington; and Perry Moede, 22, a sculptor; both for the first time; in a private ceremony in Tacoma, Wash...