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“Since the Gothic, European sculpture has become overgrown with moss, weeds - all…” — Henry Moore
Since the Gothic, European sculpture has become overgrown with moss, weeds - all sorts of surface excrescences which completely concealed shape. It has been Brancusi's special mission to get rid of this overgrowth and to make us once more shape-conscious.
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