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{– Conservative Reaction in Sculpture}

‘Conservative reaction (1920s). * In the 1920s[ce] modern art underwent a reaction comparable to the changes experienced by society as a whole. **|In the postwar search for security, permanence and order,|** the earlier insurgent art seemed by many to be antithetical to these ends, and certain avant-garde artists radically changed their art and thought. Lipchitz’ portraits of “Gertrude Stein” (1920[ce]) & “Berthe Lipchitz” (1922[ce]) return volume and features of to the head but not an intimacy of contact with the viewer. Tatlin & Alexander Rodchenko broke with the Constructivists around 1920[ce]. Jacob Epstein developed some of his finest naturalistic portraiture in this decade.’

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‘In Germany, George Kolbe’s “Standing Man and Woman” of 1931[ce] seems a prelude to the Nazi health cult, and the serene but vacuous figures of Arno Breker, Karl Albiker, & Ernesto de Fiori were simply variations on a studio theme in praise of youth & body culture.’

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*64C1920|S1928[ce]

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*** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 27:109]

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