Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews"This is the first publication of the collected writings of Naum Gabo. It includes 48 essays, articles, catalogue introductions and interviews, some of which have never been published, or are published here in English for the first time. ..."--Publisher description. |
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Page 98
... culture which had been built up by the past ages . They had already begun at the end of the last century and proceeded in ours with unusual speed until there was no stable point left in either the material or the ideal structure of our ...
... culture which had been built up by the past ages . They had already begun at the end of the last century and proceeded in ours with unusual speed until there was no stable point left in either the material or the ideal structure of our ...
Page 115
... culture of peoples . Let us not forget that all the great epochs at the moment of their spiritual apogee manifested their spiritual tension in sculpture . In all great epochs when a creative idea became dominant and inspired the masses ...
... culture of peoples . Let us not forget that all the great epochs at the moment of their spiritual apogee manifested their spiritual tension in sculpture . In all great epochs when a creative idea became dominant and inspired the masses ...
Page 125
... culture . Human culture is not an elastic band to be lengthened , cut short or stretched in every direction with impunity . On the contrary , we imagine culture as a gigantic steel spring , maintaining its tension through the support of ...
... culture . Human culture is not an elastic band to be lengthened , cut short or stretched in every direction with impunity . On the contrary , we imagine culture as a gigantic steel spring , maintaining its tension through the support of ...
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