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Article: Classroom use.(Three-dimensional Innovation)
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- Arts & Activities
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- September 1, 2003
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THINGS TO LEARN ABOUT NANCY GRAVES
* Nancy Graves once wrote that titles were necessary for her sculptures only as a way of identifying them. She'd prefer people just to look at her work and not bother with titles. But, since she has produced over 240 sculptures, she has to do something to identify them and names are probably better than numbers.
* The artist first studied to be a painter in Paris, France, and Florence, Italy, although she eventually discovered an interest in sculpture after seeing some 18th-century Italian wax figures.
* Having grown up in the countryside, she enjoyed studying Nature. And, it is this love of natural objects ...