Baudelaire

work by Duchamp-Villon

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In Western sculpture: Avant-garde sculpture (1909–20)
…Rodin, but his portrait head Baudelaire (1911) contrasts with that by his predecessor in its more radical departure from the flesh; the somewhat squared-off head is molded by clear, hard volumes. His famous Horse (1914), a coiled, vaguely mechanical form bearing little resemblance to the animal itself, suggests metaphorically the…
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