Page 34 - Studio International - January 1965
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Unconventional techniques in sculpture
New York Commentary by Dore Ashton
Peter Agostini
Christmas Package, 1 963
Plaster 23½ in. high
Jewish Museum
Lent by the Stephen Radich Gallery
The proliferation of new techniques and points of view toward a disciplined style in which forms are carefully
in American sculpture is well remarked in an exhibition generalized in what might be called a classical manner.
'Recent American Sculpture· at the Jewish Museum. Known for his early use of discarded machine parts
This museum. which wisely regards contemporary art welded into suggestive assemblages. Stankiewicz is in
with non-parochial eyes. has lately furnished New reality little interested in the mechanical polemic (all
York City with a number of excellent documentaries. the cliches about the mechanization of life, the debris,
The seven sculptors in this show are all relatively the detritus of contemporary civilization). In the six
young in terms of reputation. and markedly young in welded iron-and-steel pieces on view. ranging from
terms of spirit. Not a single one of them works with 1955 to the present it is clear that Stankiewicz's abiding
conventional techniques. interest is in the articulation of linear and massive
Richard Stankiewicz. for instance. has moved steadily volumes in order to produce abstract sensations of
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