{Modern Art [continued (80b)]}[Extracts from source text with ms notes][12th May 1991]

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‘The appeal * of primitive and ancient ritual art to Moore,** the element of surprise in children's toys for Calder,** and the wellsprings of irrationality from which Arp** and Giacometti** drank were for those men the means by which wonder and the marvellous could be restored to sculpture. While their works were often violent transmutations of life, *** their objectives were peaceful….’

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*(See also ff in E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] [27:110] on the egg form in J. B. Flanagan’s & Brancusi’s sculptures)

**[See last previous ts journal entry]

****– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 27:] 109-110

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