Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 229
ty. Even when theyerect whole statues,when they abandon fora day their hieroglyph-ical combinations ofgeometrical figures andanimated forms, onewould say, from theirmanner of articulatingthe limbs and of givingan architectural qual-ity to the masses, thatthey never saw any-thing but… … Mexico. Statue, lava.(British Museum.) then is stopped shortby dogma and by fear.In confused forms the sculptors combine sections ofliving animals, enormous pulpy masses swollen withturbid water and bristling with spines like the pricklycactus. In Central America, where the earth is soakedwith the…
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