This film documents an intimate conversation between the art historian (Meyer Schapiro) and the artist (George Segal) as they discuss Segal's plaster sculptures in relation to the European tradition and to contemporaries, from Giotto to Abstract Expressionism. Focusing on process, material, color and theory, Schapiro and Segal examine the artist's work and the complex thought behind his acclaimed human casts
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Film
In Process Record
Performer
George Segal, Meyer Schapiro
Event
Originally produced by Michael Blackwood Productions in 1979