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The history of American sculpture (1903)

Taft, Lorado, 1860-1936 · New York; London : Macmillan · leaf 586

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THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN SCULPTURE 512 peered out as might the eyes of death from a shroud. The long folds were handled in broad planes, as if blocked out in stone, pro- ducing an effect massive and architectonic, yet not crude. The artist knew just where to stop in his simplification. Anything… … " carved " ; ample and mellow Fig. 97. — Grafly : Fragment of Fountain of Man. Pan-American Exposition. in modelling, they stopped just this side of lusciousness, for here and there was a firm broad plane as of the simplifying chisel, giving their forms not only an increase of carrying power, but…

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