Word: torsos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primary lesson she learned: "To them the earth is the source of life. The ground is like the dynamo of life; once you make contact with it your torso becomes an electric conductor." The role of the dancer: to "take the solidness of the earth and transform it into the spirit...
Brancusi, at 74, still labors in a Paris studio, squeezing out streamlined shapes that merely puzzle most people. To the unsympathetic eye, his Bird resembles a propeller blade, his Torso of a Young Man looks like a drainpipe, and his Sculpture for the Blind is strictly for the blind. Walter Arensberg has one of the most respectable explanations of Brancusi's work ever offered. Brancusi, he says, sculps what Plato had in mind by the idea of form: "Plato's 'idea' is the archetype from which the infinite forms of nature derive...
Branded (Paramount) takes place in a Technicolored Old West where men are men and Alan Ladd is Alan Ladd. More intricately and outlandishly plotted than most westerns, it differs from the usual Ladd movie by giving its hero a real reason for displaying his torso...
...highly publicized Faith Domergue, latest graduate of the Howard Hughes straining-bodice school of dramatic art. Hughes discovered Faith in 1941, put her into a strenuous training program for stardom. Like Jane Russell, another Hughes discovery whom she somewhat resembles, Faith bloomed unseen except in leg and torso art poses. Her first film, Vendetta, has been awaiting release since...
...make everything float? "Modern physics," the artist explained with a twitch of his delicate handlebar mustache, "has revealed to us increasingly the dematerialization which exists in all nature and that is the reason why the material body of my Madonna does not exist and why in place of a torso you find a tabernacle 'filled with Heaven.' But while everything floating in space denotes spirituality it also represents our concept of the atomic system-today's counterpart of divine gravitation...