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{– Post-war Sculpture}

‘Developments after World War II. “The modern artist is the counterpart in our time of the alchemist-philosopher who once toiled over furnaces, alembics, & crucibles, ostensibly to make gold, but who consciously entered the most profound levels of being, philosophizing over the melting & mixing of various ingredients.” (Ibram Lassaw, quoted by Lawrence Campbell in Art News, p.66, The Art Foundation Press, New York, March 1954).’

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* – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 27:] 110

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