McCalls – 1966 “Sight and Sound”
Lenore Hershey
Dolls of another mood are the new artistic medium of a 24-year-old German girl named Irena Martens, and if we hadn’t met her at a one – woman Castagno Gallery show in New York, we’d think it was A put-up job. How can such a blonde, stylish smasher ( she used to be a model in Milan) create such elegantly ugly grotesques? She says her stuffed doll creatures , with their inhuman Features and caricature bodies are “honest dolls”. These shock-pop playthings have already found themselves in some important art collections.
