Fry, Roger Eliot, 1866-1934 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 84
affected by our preferencesfor certain forms which appeared to us to mark the nobility of man.Thus we shrink from giving the head its full development; we liketo lengthen the legs and generally to force the form into a particulartype. These preferences seem to be dictated not by a plastic bias,but… … feM Negro Sculpture Collection Guillaume NEGRO SCULPTURE 67 preferences, or his preferences happen to coincide more nearly withwhat his feeling for pure plastic design would dictate. For instance,the length, thinness, and isolation of our limbs render them extremelyrefractory to fine plastic…
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