Word: sculpts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre in a catalogue introduction which sometimes made sense and sometimes didn't, "to sculpt is to take the fat off space...
...makes the creation of works of the highest art his sole and supreme business in life needs before all things a woman to be his servant, his mother, his nurse, his devotee, his housekeeper, and not at all necessarily his bedfellow. . . . As Watts could paint and sculpt in the grand manner as easily as other men can walk or talk, he must be ranked as one of the most fortunate of mortals and yet the most dependent on women...
...Epstein career has proceeded by a mounting series of sensations. It began in 1908. Commissioned to sculpt decorations for the British Medical Association Building, Epstein spent 14 frantic months suspended on a scaffold high above London's busy Strand. When the scaffolding was removed from his first five oversized nudes, the storm broke. Wrote the Evening Standard on page 1: "It is unnecessary to say any more than that they are a form of statuary which no careful father would wish his daughter, or no discriminating young man, his fiancée, to see." Result: for thousands of careful...