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| May
2005 |
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Vol.24
No.4 |
| A
publication of the International Sculpture Center |
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From
the Editor
As we prepare each
issue of Sculpture, there are always coincidences and repetitions that
catch our eye. For instance, there are two sets of sculptural bleacher-structures
in this issue, each created from a very different aesthetic impulse and
in a very different social climate. Year after year, the artists most
often cited in our pages are David Smith, Joseph Beuys, and Marcel Duchamp,
and that is true also of this issue (with Beuys getting particular attention
this time). But in every issue there are also artists who rise up out
of art history to be cited repeatedly, by coincidence or due to some alignment
in the heavens. In this issue, references to Kurt Schwitters occur several
times, reminding me of a bizarre cosmic alignment, a rumored recording
of Schwitters’s 1916 Ur Sonata by Marie Osmond, who did in fact record
Hugo Ball’s Dada composition Karawane, also from 1916—linked
historically to the Futurist works of Marinetti, also cited in this issue.
These recurrences illustrate Modernism’s continuing hold on our imagination,
as well as pointing toward what we stand to lose as a culture in times
of retrenchment, de-funding, and general know-nothingism.
~
Glenn Harper
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