George Segal: Love's Labors Cast
December, 1971
George Segal: Love's Labors CastGeorge Segal traps his subjects' basic yearnings in plaster and presents them to us as Everyman's. "I don't want to be explicit; I want to evoke feeling."By casting his models in a casual stance or pose, Segal aims at revealing mental attitudes as well as traits of character: "People have attitudes locked up in their bodies and you have to catch them.... A person may reveal nothing of himself and then, suddenly, make a movement that contains a whole...