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...Berto Lardera, 45, is a self-taught Italian abstractionist who now lives and works in Paris. One of the fast-growing school of sculptor-welders, Lardera got his start in 1944 in war-damaged Florence when he found twisted chunks of iron and scrap in the rubble, and began to use metal instead of stone. He sketches his sculptural idea on paper before cutting up sheets of metal with shears and blowtorch, then welds the pieces together into the finished product. Over the years he has also learned to unite copper and iron, and graft brightly colored mosaics into...
...self-taught son of a boot-and-shoe-machine operator is causing a run on critical superlatives in highbrow London's literary marketplace. "One of the most remarkable first books I have read," wrote Critic Cyril Connolly in the Sunday Times when Colin Wilson's The Outsider was published a month ago. Said Philip Toynbee, writing in the Observer: "The Outsider is an exhaustive and luminously intelligent study of a representative theme of our time . . . truly astounding." Part of the critical hubbub rose from the fact that Author Wilson, just turned 25, shows a staggeringly erudite grasp...
Young Campbell's portrait made him one of a distinguished company. Raeburn, an orphaned son of a Scottish millowner and largely self-taught in art, had developed his own technique of painting to the point where, in the eyes of the local aristocracy, he was Scotland's greatest artist and the equal of London's Romney, Lawrence and Gainsborough. A Highland chief, when entertaining him, gave the command: "Bonnets off to Sir Henry Raeburn." To his studio in a steady procession came such famed countrymen as Diarist James Boswell, Economist Adam Smith, Philosopher David Hume and Novelist...
...Copenhagen clock is the product of some 40 years' planning by onetime Locksmith Jens Olsen, who died in 1945. A self-taught astronomer, physicist and engineer, Olsen conceived the idea of his clock after seeing the famed astronomical clock in Strasbourg. He devoted all of his spare time to planning it and calculating its complex mathematical functions. With funds raised by clockmakers' societies, he completed the plans in 1944, lived just long enough to supervise the first months of production of the clock's 15,000 different parts. Since then, a million dollars has gone into...
Died. Charles Edward ("Cow Cow") Davenport, 63, self-taught Negro composer of more than 100 songs (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You; Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here), onetime piano accompanist for the late Bessie Smith; of a heart attack; in Cleveland...