American masters of sculpture: being brief appreciations of some American sculptors and of some phases of sculpture in America (1913)
Caffin, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1854-1918 · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page, & Co. · leaf 212
pose, the vicious flingof body and heels as the beast prepares to turna somersault, the limp of pain, the submission ofexhaustion, the supple step to music in the circus,the pause of doubt, the spasm of baffled rage—each and all and others are represented with anintimacy of knowledge and an… … SOLON HANNIBAL BORGLUM 161 hension which disregards details, except in so faras they are essential to the action or the sentiment.And how characteristic are the details which hedoes introduce! Here, for example, is the figureof a horse, tamed. A saddle lies upon theground. It is the object which…
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