arnest Neizvestny, the Soviet scupltor whose work was severely criticised during last year, was recently interviewed by a Tass corresp= ondent. The 38-year-old sculptor received tho correspondent in his studio in which the most prominent objoct was a 10-foot photograph of a project for a monument tentatively called "Thought Square." In the centre of the composition will be a vory large head of a thinker, which the sculptor has already cast in plaster of paris, "The happiness of cognition of the world and its transformation in the interests of the people on Barth is : the keynote of my now work," the sculptor said.
He explained that his composition was designed for a large square and would be farmed with many-figure bas-reliefs, as if illustrating the triumph of reason. “It is to be a work in which the theme of labour, of perfecting man, must be conveyed with tho greatest forcoe.." Ho ended the interview by saying of the party's criticism of him, "I admit I got carried away...by a narrow profossionalism. That probably led me to experiment for the sake of experiment...."