Word: sculptors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happily apparent to the public, his job never is. It begins back in the bare, mirror-walled classrooms of his own School of American Ballet, on Manhattan's Madison Avenue. There he selects his dancers, lines them up, and then works out his ideas on them, like a sculptor working in clay. While the cast watches, he walks through a routine, testing it, molding it, muttering almost inaudibly while he moves. The dancers pick up the phrase, dance it out, and wait for the next. Sometimes the rehearsals go on for weeks, while Balanchine watches and corrects; sometimes...
...most of his creative lifetime, Sculptor Jacob Epstein has been outraging public commentators on good taste and good morals with his lumpish, aggressively individualistic statuary. G. K. Chesterton denounced his Ecce Homo as an "insult"; the London Times called his Genesis "repellent." Such criticism has convinced Epstein that he is a persecuted, misunderstood genius, denied the recognition due to one of the world's greatest living sculptors. Last week an accolade came to Epstein which should convince him that the world now acknowledges him both as an artist and as a public figure of standing and respect...
When the National Park Service began looking around for a sculptor to do a new figure for the top of the 97-ft. shaft of the Yorktown, Va. monument commemorating Washington's victory over Cornwallis, its eye fell on Norwegian-born Oskar Hansen, 61. Hansen was a monument-maker of some repute: he did the figures at Boulder Dam, a World War I memorial in Hinsdale, Ill., and a Columbus memorial in Rio de Janeiro. What was needed at Yorktown was a new statue of Liberty to replace the one decapitated by lightning...
...first all went well. Sculptor Hansen designed a classic Goddess of Liberty. It was duly approved by the Park Service, and Hansen went to work. But Hansen soon began to worry about the shaft on which his new statue was to be placed. Not only was it a Victorian monstrosity, he charged, it was also an unsafe base for his new Liberty. At the top of the shaft, he said, is a gunmetal core which had repeatedly attracted lightning...
...last week, the Park Service and Sculptor Hansen seemed at hopeless deadlock. Hansen charged that when he agreed in 1949 to design a new figure, install it and repair the shaft, he did not know the condition of the column. His new, 13-ft. granite statue, he says, will "last for 10,000 years," and he objects to putting it on a base "that has not lasted the life time of a frame bungalow." The Park Service replied that Government engineers have inspected the shaft, and with a little fixing, it will be perfectly safe. Besides, Congress only appropriated...