Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taft. Lorado Taft, prolific Chicago sculptor, spoke in general on "Beauty in American Life," in particular on "My Dream Museum...
Another Londoner who excites his fellow townsmen is Sculptor Jacob Epstein. Born by the Hudson, he has done most of his controversial carving beside the Thames (TIME, June 1, 1925). Sculptor Epstein's recent London exhibition of drawings also included many an explicit nude. Englishmen came, saw, said various things, but there was no official interference...
Last week, however, Sculptor Epstein heard that 200 books elegantly illustrating the exhibition, designed to sell in the U. S. at $90 per copy, had been seized by U. S. authorities, sent to Washington, pronounced "unfit for circulation...
...that silly?" said Sculptor Epstein...
...Sculptor Epstein declared: "If the man in the street does not like the look of it on his daily way to work he can always avert his eyes. In any case, the artist who considers the taste of the masses is a fool and is stultifying his own art. . . . In all beauty there is an element of strangeness, of unfamiliarity, which ordinary, non-creative people find alarming. . . . In my Night there is a touch of the inhuman. That is appropriate to the vast, vague idea of night. You could not personify such an idea by an ordinary pretty human figure...