ek directly to find them. A naturalist unawares, and a realist withoutdesiring to be so, Paul Troubetzkoi, then in theearliest stages of his career, took as his model theanimals and men that he found about him. Buthis artistic temperament was far opposed toliteral transcription, which is the… … of imagination, when in factthe whole sensibihty of the mantakes its place and his everythought becomes an act of im-agination and an idealisation. If I were to be asked toestablish a kind of hierarchy inTroubetzkois works, I shouldnot place in the first rankeither his nude studies or hislarge…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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