Just to note: despite Saul's suggestion that "you should romanticize, surmise, and guess less", there has been nothing that either one of us has offered on this topic that has not been either opinion, speculation, or gossip. (including the bit about Chaim's work mostly being sold to Jews)
Did Chaim Gross sometimes use African sculpture for inspiration (as Saul concedes) -- but later use it only a trophy (as Saul asserts)? Nobody can definitively answer such a question. But I do opine that there was a new vigor and thrill about early 20th C. figure sculpture (in contrast to late 19th C. work) and speculate that most of that can be attributed to the growing influence of trans-cultural and trans-generational art -- qualities that are now absent from neo-academic and wax-museum sculpture. ____________________________________________________________ Advance your career with an online Master's Degree. Free info. Click Now! http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxVw0qmZs307EBDYTDQpcgTkL XRMQcEBg1LUcYG8S4ZpkX0ZG7LQUQ/
