Casting Genesis

George Segal's Biblical Sculptures.

A review of Segal's scupltures, written for Bible Review in April 2000. Based on a lecture delivered on May 1, 1997, during an exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, which brought together for the first time give of George Segal's biblical works.

"What happens when Segal's mind and eye are turned loose on the most mythological, the most exalted, the most timeless of all texts--the Book of Genesis?"