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Article: Bell's new Bronze Age. (sculpture and drawing, Larry Bell, Art et Industrie, New York, New York; Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico)
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- Art in America
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- March 1, 1997
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In a departure from his previous work, sculptor Larry Bell has taken up the traditional medium of bronze--sometimes executed on a monumental scale--to produce a series of calligraphic figures based on computer-derived sketches.
In the work for which he is best known, shimmering glass boxes whose iridescent planes seem to enclose a mysterious light, Larry Bell took advantage of an advanced technology originally developed by the U.S. Air Force. By contrast, his current body of work, presented in a pair of recent shows et Art et Industrie in New York, looks to the distant past rather than the technological future. It employs the ancient medium of bronze to create a ...
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...CHICAGO Larry Bell ALAN KOPPEL GALLERY Larry Bell has been making glass cubes for over forty years, continually ... exercise that exults in the ineffable. -James Yood [Sidebar] Larry Bell, Series 2, #3, 1967, glass with chrome binding, 12 ...
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