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...were one, of course, they were three. Pressler, 56, was the son of a German clothing-store owner who fled Hitler to settle in Tel Aviv. As a boy, he got splinters in his fingers from practicing, because the keys of the family up right were worn to the wood. At 17, he journeyed to the Debussy competition in San Francisco to see how he might do against his contemporaries. He won, and promptly launched a U.S. concert career...
...hand, one can be sure what the sculptor Martin Puryear is about with a subtly irregular circle of dark bent wood, some four feet in diameter, a minimal serpent with a knob for a head: this hand some and assured object is like a blowup of a tribal bracelet, but with more sculptural presence. On the other, one of the best pieces in the show is Alvin Loving's wall hanging of sewed, dyed canvas, Shades of '73: Composition for 1980, whose variegated strips are like a moody, floral version of a constructivist motif and seem to make...
Tony Straiges's set does more than its share to point up Epstein's intent. If the battle-tapestry that represents the court overstates the theme of conflict, its one-dimensionality perfectly sets the city off from the wood; as the tapestry rises it reveals no lush, enchanted garden but a Greenwood of primal forces, spaciously expanding sideways and upwards towards the silvery moon--a stark, haunting vision of nature largely unconcerned with or uninterested...
...expanded his work over an extraordinary range of images, media and purposes in the course of a 50-year career. Whether he is engaged with ballet and theater sets or monumental fountains, pieces for giant plazas or intimate playgrounds, huge sun discs fabricated from carved stone or diminutive wood sculptures and paper lamps, Noguchi's touch has never ceased to be subtle, precise and informed. He is entitled to be seen, in a time characterized by minor and peripheral talent, as one of the very few surviving masters of the modernist tradition: the chief living heir, not only...
...twin-engined carriers and a snaky Lear jet, flew quick-order runs of car parts to GM plants around the country. Everything, from the reined jet to a sharp-boned and muscular Doberman, jutted sleek, Steinberg angles. Everything, that is, but an unshaven guy snoring in a wood chair propped against a wall with his boots on a table. He wore a Beech-nut "chaw" cap and kept a spit tin on the floor next to the chair. The Doberman sat poised as it grew dark outside, pointing to the jet with sleek, black skin and a sharp snout...