Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Littérature Policière for his novel, La Reine des Pommes, a roman noir or dark-toned crime story that was hailed by Author Jean Giono as "the most extraordinary novel I have read in a long time," and praised by Jean Cocteau as "a prodigious masterpiece." Sculptor Harold Cousins, from Washington, D.C., has lived nine years in Paris, sold a sculpture last month to the Claude Bernard Gallery, and has been commissioned by Susse, the famed bronze caster, to do a mobile. Painter Beauford Delaunay, from Tennessee, lives in a small cottage in suburban Clamart and exhibits...
Most famed are Henry Moore, 60, the first major sculptor Britain has produced in centuries, and Barbara Hepworth, 55, whose pebble-smooth, elegantly shaped forms echo the thin abstractions of her former husband, Painter Ben Nicholson. Approaching fame is Ralph Brown, 30, who aims in roughhewn style at creating images that "parallel the personality of the people," and Leslie Thornton, 33, a welder of bronze cages in which tortured figures seem suspended or crucified...
Best of the middle generation is tousle-haired, big-beaked Kenneth Armitage, 42, already hailed by the New Statesman as "our most considerable sculptor since Moore." Armitage has long since left Yorkshire and set up his studio in London, but he admits that, once Yorkshire's industrial grimness gets under the skin, it cannot be washed off. Says he: "There's a hardness, a discreetness; everything is somehow bitten off and sharp, like Greece, but of course without the warmth of Greece...
...doorknob heads, could have been dug out of a slag pile or found beneath Pompeii buried in volcanic ash. They represent a recent departure for Armitage, who since 1952 has moved away from his flat, screenlike groupings, created figures in the round that won him a $1,000 sculptor's award at this year's Venice Biennale...
...doing he has earned for himself a reputation as "a one-man laboratory for the discovery of new form." This week Man-hattan's Museum of Modern Art, celebrating its renovation after its near-disastrous fire (TIME, April 28), is giving 71-year-old Sculptor Arp a thoroughgoing retrospective show that includes 113 paste-ups, oils, string pictures, wood reliefs, and stone sculptures (see color...