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‘Avant-garde sculpture (1909-20). In the second decade of the 20^th century [ce] the tradition of body rendering extending from the Renaissance to Rodin was shattered, and the Cubists, Brancusi & the constructivists emerged as the most influential forces. Cubism, with its compositions of imagined rather than observed forms & relationships, had a similarly marked influence.*

‘One of the first examples of the revolutionary sculpture is Picasso's “Woman's Head” (1909[ce]). The sculptor no longer relies upon traditional methods of sculpture or upon his sensory experience of the body; what was given to his outward senses of sight & touch was dominated by strong conceptualizing.’**

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*** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 27:] 108

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