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...Henry Geldzahler, made by Sculptor George Segal. For the Sculls, the plastered Henry (top picture, opposite page) has become a household pet. Scull likes to feel Henry's pulse. "How pale you look," he murmurs. Scull's three boys chat with Henry and use him as a talisman of good luck for exams at school...
...trading tribes -the Winnebagos, Cherokees, Chickasaws and Sioux-were in perpetual hock to him, and they had a habit of going into battle with medals bearing his likeness strung about their necks. Astor's puffy face, in fact, was thought to be a more powerful talisman than a scalp or even a medicine bonnet...
Preferring color photography, Talisman concentrates on producing tones that integrate a picture as much by color as by subject and composition. Typical, for example, is his photograph of Madrid in which a white sky forms the background to a college of buildings in various shades of brown, with beige highlights where the sun hits directly...
...Mark Talisman '63 is showing both photographs and sculpture executed during the past four years. I am a little disappointed in his choice of works to exhibit as I have seen better pieces of his, yet much of what he shows as most enjoyable...
...that tells a great deal about the man. But, as in several of the other sculptures, there is a feeling that the artist's gouges have only cut the surface of his material: the work remains slightly more a two-by-four than a Lincoln. This may be what Talisman seeks but I would prefer to see the human expression less restricted by the material...