Word: terrae
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...bursting form. She had entered his hands an inhibited Victorian lady and emerged a delightfully sensuous modern. She was a siren, Dawn, Night, a symbol of all nature's most mysterious forces. Now, in a sweeping retrospective at Paris' Grand Palais com posed of 110 bronzes, plus terra cottas and drawings - all part of a grand gift from the sculptor's son Claude to the French nation - every Circean guise and symbolic posture that Laurens' woman assumed over the years is visible...
...arranging the show, he tried "to pounce on any contrasts or similarities." Baroque Italian cupids by Guido Reni hang beside Isamu Noguchi's stainless-steel Man in Space. A gemlike 15th century English marble Pietà contributed by Seward Eric (P.A. '10), is set off by a terra-cotta Nigerian 20th century oba's (a ruler's) head, contributed by Whitney P. Foster...
Jean-Paul Carlhian, the architect for Mather, had hoped to make the exterior terra-cotta tiles attached to the concrete frame by steel hooks. The tiles would have been dark brown, giving Mather's 21 story tower and three low-rise sections a dark, glazed appearance...
...terra-cotta exterior would have been the first of its kind in the nation. An apartment building in Washington, D.C. has a similar finish, but with a different method of attachment...
...flow bumper. Convinced that there was still more "beauty to be extracted from it," he bought it for $1 -much to the amazement of the garage owner, since the Seleys' car was a Chevvy. Seley, who at the time was casting Henry Mooreish semi-abstracts in plaster and terra cotta, began using bumpers as armatures, covering them with plaster, then casting the result in bronze or aluminum. By 1959, he had decided it was "a sacrilege to cover the beautiful bumper form," began working with the armature alone...