Practice question · True or false
Gabo and Pevsner's Realistic Manifesto renounced mass as a sculptural element.
Hints
- Ask what they proposed sculpture should describe instead.
- They argued a constructed, planar work describes space better than a solid.
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True
Why
True, and it is a more radical claim than it first sounds. Their argument was that sculpture had confused depicting volume with occupying space, and that a transparent constructed work describes space more accurately than a solid mass ever could. Sculpture without mass is a genuine proposal, not a paradox.
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