"The sculptor's intention is not to create a kind of Dadaist art, nor yet a Tinguely machine," Lawrence Campbell wrote, "but to demonstrate the esthetic possibilities of an actual magnetic force."
Their essay focused on five artists who shared a "deep concern with the human image."
"I have always believed that perception is the medium through which states of being are directly experienced," the artist writes.
"It is not an easy task to write about Picasso," Mary Callery writes.
Read excerpts from profiles and reviews of the artist's work from the ARTnews archives.
Reviews by Fairfield Porter, Parker Tyler, Lawrence Campbell, and more from the ARTnews archives.
Wilhelm Valentiner on the Flemish master.
"Puryear is a master at conjuring a feeling, a mood, with very minimal means."
2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus school.
"That she was a woman, and of considerable social position, led critics of her own time to treat her work as that of a dilettante."
