Art: Not Quite Greek

It is not the function of art to relieve those without faith from their boredom.

With that hard line, German Sculptor Gerhard Marcks dismisses most modern art. Marcks is a Lutheran in religion, a classicist in sculpture, and anything but bored. At 65 he is laboring mightily to produce the best sculptures of his career. Last week 36 of them were on view at the London Arts Council Gallery. Items:

¶ A slender girl sitting on the floor. Her eyes are shut, and she clasps one foot in her hand to make a gracefully dreaming closed circuit of her lithe...