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 274
e shibboleths glibly passed aroundthe studio is ideal sculpture, and it is largelyapplied to just such sculpture as this; to workswhich are barren of ideas, or in which the subjectof the statue is declared only through some time-worn symbol. Not that the introduction of asymbol is of itself… … BUST OF A CHILDBy Birtle/ Canfield THE STONE AGEBy John J. Boyle THE IDEAL MOTIVE 215 in which the figure would convey no hint to ourimagination if it were not for the symbolintroduced. And how far, I wonder, does thesymbol succeed in leading us? We are apt tofind it either trite or, as in the case…
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