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Volton XV

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Description: Volton XV
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Description: The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist
The systematic characterisation of a distinctively modern tradition in sculpture first properly established itself in the art world in the 1930s. I say systematic with certain qualifications, because what counted as modern often involved what we might now see as contradictory tendencies. On one hand, the modern was thought to involve a focus on simplified compact plastic mass, for which the work of Maillol (fig. 64) was the most prominent model. On the other, it was conceived as a negation of …
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Related print edition pages: pp.145-177
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00156.008

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