{Baroque Sculpture [continued (11)]}[8th May 1991]

[Redbook9:301][19910508:0903k]{Baroque Sculpture [continued (11)]}[8th May 1991]

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Otherwise,* the only explanation for the overrun of ‘dissolute’** or diffuse expressions of art beyond C at the same time as more 'classical' forms (as well as doctrinal commissions) appear may be e.g.

(a) the habit of clinging to established customs – which as the later stages of an artistic cycle might be expected to be superficial anyway, would not be easily distinguishable from these late stages; or

(b) just possibly, the influence of a complete turn-around at C back towards r~, manifesting itself in that total letting-go, self-sacrifice, abnegation of the self-will (even in design), in short, Surrender, which is not (as in the case of the Outer Circle) the end but the beginning of a new turn of *** cycle, the inner circle, of integration.****

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*[See last previous ts journal entry]

**ref [[Redbook9:300][19910508:0903g]{Baroque Sculpture [continued (7)]}[8th May 1991],] 300

***[sic – ‘the’?]

****At this stage there is an acute danger of so much ‘spread’ that the whole analysis collapses into chaos (as an o[uter] c[ircle] would....)

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