Carolina QuotesMiss Rasmussen made a welded sculpture. Her statues were — as she would say, smiling — untouched by human hands; and they looked it. You could tell one from another, if you wanted to, but it was hard to want to. You felt, yawning: It’s ugly, but is it Art? Miss Rasmussen also designed furniture, but people persisted in sitting down in her sculpture, and in asking “What is that named?” of her chairs. This showed how advanced her work was, and pleased her; yet when she laughed to show her pleasure, her laugh sounded thin and strained.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
Chapter 6: “Art Night”, p. 228
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- Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel]
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- 1954
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- p. 228
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