Practice question · True or false
Truth to materials survives intact as the standard doctrine of contemporary sculpture.
Hints
- Ask what happened to the strong version and what replaced it.
- Its own advocates outgrew it; a weaker claim survives.
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False
Why
False. The strong doctrine is defended by almost nobody now, its own advocates outgrew it, and it cannot accommodate polychromed, gilded or illusionistic work. What survives is weaker and more useful: the material is part of the content, which everyone accepts without anyone having to disapprove of bronze.
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More questions on Materials as Language
- Sort each statement by whether it argues FOR truth to materials or AGAINST it.
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- Why is it not hypocrisy that Moore cast extensively in bronze after arguing for truth to materials?
- Gabo and Pevsner's Realistic Manifesto renounced mass as a sculptural element.
- Complete the account of materials as language.
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- Arrange these developments in the relation between sculpture and its materials.
- Arrange these contributions in chronological order.