The History of American Sculpture

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The History of American Sculpture
Lorado Taft
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It cannot be called beautiful, but it is most original in conception and execution, and, in spite of its grotesqueness, it is full of power and impressiveness. The woman is represented in a writhing attitude, and she is not only being enveloped in the crystals of salt which are forming around her, but she is actually dissolving into salt herself. The idea of transformation is very much more per- fectly expressed in this statuette than it is in Bernini's * Daphne,' or in any attempts to represen...t metamorphosis that we know of. Lot's wife is really turning into a pillar of salt, and, admitting that the idea of such a transformation is a rather queer one for a sculptor to choose, we must also admit that it is expressed with remarkable skill." ^ And here the record ends. No further notice is to be found any- where of Mr. Roberts or of subsequent productions. Probably he felt it sufficient glory to have made us acquainted with the modern French school, and having done his work he stopped. He died in Paris, Apr.

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