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Avard T. Fairbanks: Distinguished American Sculptor, Scholar And Teacher, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
Avard T. Fairbanks: Distinguished American Sculptor, Scholar And Teacher, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
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Mr. Fairbanks was a man of his time. His scrupulous attention to anatomical detail made him a super realist as he worked from the interior structure of the human figrue outward to an accurate presentaion of each turning of a mouth, drooping of an eyelid or flexing of a muscle. He saw the human figure, male or female, as an object to be venerated, a mirror of elevated spiritual and aesthetic vaules more than just simplistic replication. His works, whether religious, mythological, industrial or as versitic portraiture, carried the Fairbanks ideal that "The arts are created for contemplation and edification, …
Von Allen-Mcgowan: Sculptor, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
Von Allen-Mcgowan: Sculptor, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Of Art
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Interview taken place on January 28, 1997 between Von Allen-McGowan, a sculptor at Brigham young university and Steven Rosen, director of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State Univerisity.