ic art at TheCloisters. This figure, to be numbered amongthe finest sculptures in America, is placedas a work of the Tenth Century. That issomething ol a test for wood as a me-dium, and not a bad record: a thou-sand years of life among thevicissitudes of war-torn Europe, Barlachs home in hisyouth… … is nil clothing his vision in an art form as individ-ual, as formalized, a-- far from the natural sui ^^^ of life, as can be imagined.Perhaps th. one of the chiefcharactersof the trueModernist inart: that hediu^ - deepdown towardthe heart of life as tin - -called Realists e\ er did. andthen clothes…
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