Complete the account of materials as language.
The doctrine that a material should be worked in ways expressing its own nature is ______ to materials, and its practical form was ______ carving. Gabo and Pevsner's 1920 manifesto renounced ______ as a sculptural element. Materials such as wax and ice are described as ______, because they carry their own ending.
Word bank: truth · direct · mass · fugitive · honesty · volume
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- The second blank is carving without a model to point up from.
- The last blank names materials that will not last.
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The doctrine that a material should be worked in ways expressing its own nature is truth to materials, and its practical form was direct carving. Gabo and Pevsner's 1920 manifesto renounced mass as a sculptural element. Materials such as wax and ice are described as fugitive, because they carry their own ending.
The last blank names the case that makes the weaker version of the doctrine obviously right. A work in ice is about duration whether or not the maker intends it, because the material will not permit any other reading.
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