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Prophet ($16,000), a 7½ft. figure of Monel metal covered with nickel-silver by Dentist-turned-Sculptor Seymour Lipton, is both warning and challenge. "I was thinking of Isaiah," Lipton explains. "The work suggests a strident person, a gesture of stepping forward. But the work is also a challenge to the observer to become involved in a whole new language of form belonging to the present age." The U.S.'s new sculpture has indeed developed a provocative new vocabulary if not a language of form. But a vocabulary is not a work of art. So far, the new sculpture seems only a vernacular, still in search of its first master user—and its first masterpiece.