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Elie Nadelman Elie Nadelman
Elie Nadelman , 1882-1946, Polish-American sculptor, b. Warsaw. He spent some time in Paris and is said to have influenced Picasso. Before he settled (1914) in the United States his work was exhibited in New York City at the Armory Show in 1913. His gracefully rounded sculptures, most often in... Read more
Olympia Olympia
Olympia ancient city, important center of the worship of Zeus in ancient Greece, in Elis near the Alpheus (now Alfiós) R. It was the scene of the Olympic games . The great temple of Zeus was especially celebrated for its gold and ivory statue of Zeus by Phidias —one of the Seven... Read more
Olympia (Greece) Olympia (Greece)
Olympia ancient city, important center of the worship of Zeus in ancient Greece, in Elis near the Alpheus (now Alfiós) R. It was the scene of the Olympic games . The great temple of Zeus was especially celebrated for its gold and ivory statue of Zeus by Phidias —one of the Seven... Read more
Isamu Noguchi Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi , 1904-88, American sculptor, b. Los Angeles. The son of a Japanese poet father and an American mother, he was a student of Gutzon Borglum and won Guggenheim fellowships (1927 and 1928) that permitted him to study in Paris under Brancusi . In his work in stone, wood, and metal he... Read more
clunch clunch
clunch. A generic name for harder types of chalk or soft limestones, varying in colour from white to greenish-grey. Clunch has occasionally been used as a building stone, but is more suitable for interior carved work and sculpture, for which purposes it was much used in England in the late Middle... Read more
Hippias of Elis Hippias of Elis
HIPPIAS OF ELIS Hippias of Elis, the Greek Sophist and polymath, was probably born before 460 BCE. The date of his death is not known, but Plato speaks of him as one of the leading Sophists at the time of the death of Socrates in 399 BCE. On a number of occasions he acted as ambassador for his... Read more
Aldo van Eyck Aldo van Eyck
Eyck, Aldo van (1918–99). Dutch architect. He worked in the Public Works Department, Amsterdam (1946–50), set up his own practice in 1952, and entered into partnership (1971–82) with Theo Bosch (1940– ). In his work he insisted on structural and practical... Read more
chryselephantine chryselephantine
chryselephantine , Greek sculptural technique developed in the 6th cent. BC Sculptures, especially temple colossi, were made with an inner core of wood overlaid with ivory, to simulate flesh, and gold, to represent drapery. The great Parthenon Athena, now lost, was chryselephantine.... Read more
Alexander Colins Alexander Colins
Alexander Colins , c.1527-1612, Flemish sculptor. He brought European court mannerism to Germany, where he directed the sculpture on the Ottheinrichsbau (1562) in Heidelberg. He designed the sculpture for the tomb of Ferdinand II and executed most of the reliefs in marble on the tomb of Maximilian... Read more
the New Sculpture the New Sculpture
New Sculpture, the. A trend in British sculpture between about 1880 and 1910 characterized chiefly by an emphasis on naturalistic surface detail and a taste for the spiritual or Symbolist in subject matter, in reaction against the blandness of much Victorian sculpture. The name was coined by the... Read more

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Magazine article from: The Hudson Review THE NAME ELIE NADELMAN immediately...think of the Nadelmans not as sculpture, but as plumbing...Whitney Museum, "Elie Nadelman: Sculptor...had impeccable modernist connections...inventive, witty sculptures during the ...

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