Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Money Game, 'Adam Smith...
...just the place, with its soaring inner space and gigantic spiral ramp designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. A few large, most strongly vertical works look slightly lopsided because of the ramp's slope. But by and large the Guggenheim's arbitrary architecture admirably enhances the drama of Smith's career...
Poetry and Vision. Just inside the door is Cubi XXVII, Smith's last work. A commanding construction of stainless steel, its open central square draws the visitor toward it, then past it up the ramp. Thus, instead of going up by elevator and sauntering downward-as he does with most Guggenheim exhibitions- he finds himself climbing upward, approximating the demanding path that the sculptor pursued...
...effort is to drive to the fullest extent those few talents that were given to me," the late David Smith once said. The brawny, Indiana-born metal worker was perhaps the most restless as well as the most gifted sculptor of an impatient nation and century. For 25 years, he labored to populate the fields of his "sculpture farm" near Bolton Landing in upper New York State with a dozen different species of welded totems, signposts, sentinels and ti tans. He was still pursuing at least five different styles when the pickup truck he was driving veered off the road...
...upward pilgrimage begins with Smith's earliest wood and wire constructions. Already evident is the haunting and haunted poetic imagery that informs even the starkest of his mature works. It was while he was studying painting at New York's Art Students League that Smith discovered the first installments of Finnegans Wake in transition and became fascinated with the parallels between poetry and the visual arts. A crudely constructed, painted Head of 1932 translates into visual terms the kind of controlled ambiguity that Joyce used: its profile simultaneously suggests a dancing woman...