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Ivan Mestrovic Comes To Syracuse University, William P. Tolley

The Courier

This article, written by former Syracuse University Chancellor William P. Tolley, tells the story of his efforts to secure a professorship for famous Yugoslavian sculptor Ivan Mestrovic, who at the time had legal and health problems while living in Europe.

Ivan Mestrovic: The Current State Of Criticism, Dean A. Porter

The Courier

Few artists have had careers as long and prolific as Ivan Mestrovic's, and even fewer have known as much success and recognition. It would require volumes of print to document completely and properly, to discuss, and to evaluate the quality and scope of his sculptural, architectural, and literary accomplishments, and then additional volumes to duplicate the many monographs, essays, and articles that have been written about him. A brief mention of these accomplishments and a short review of the art-historical and critical comments on them will provide us with a point of reference from which to consider his position, as …

Ivan Mestrovic, Laurence Schmeckebier

The Courier

This article is an amalgamation of two pieces written by Professor Schmeckebier: "The Art of Mestrovic", which prefaced the catalogue of the spring 1984 exhibition of Mestrovic's work at The Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery at Syracuse University, and an as yet unpublished paper entitled "Mestrovic as a Sculptor in America," which he gave at Columbia University in November 1982 at a seminar sponsored by The Institute on East Central Europe.

The article details Mestrovic's life and contributions to art, whose monumental sculptures are on the same level as other greats such as Rodin and Michelangelo.