Practice question · True or false
Rodin began making fragments deliberately after the broken condition of classical sculpture came to be admired.
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- Ask how classical sculpture reached the modern world.
- Broken, and the broken form was admired as such.
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True
Why
True, and it is one of the odder inheritances in the subject. Classical sculpture arrived broken, the broken form was admired for its concentration, and Rodin turned an accident of survival into a decision, presenting a torso without limbs as a complete work.
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