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truth to material(s)
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
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truth to material(s). A belief that the form of a work of art should be inseparably related to the material in which it is made. The phrase was much used in aesthetic discussions in the 1930s and is particularly associated with
Henry Moore, who in
Unit One (1934) wrote that ‘Each material has its own individual qualities … Stone, for example, is hard and concentrated and should not be falsified to look like soft flesh … It should keep its hard tense stoniness.’ Moore later admitted that the idea of truth to materials had become a fetish and in 1951 he conceded that it should not be made into a criterion of value, ‘otherwise a snowman made by a child would have to be praised at the expense of a
Rodin or a
Bernini’ (commenting on the elaborate curls in the wig of his bust of Louis XIV, Bernini—according to a contemporary report—said that it was ‘no easy thing to attain that lightness in the hair to which he aspired, for he had to struggle against the contrary nature of the material’).
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Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism.(Book review)
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Materialism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
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Materialism, Dialectical
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
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Historical and Dialectical Materialism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Materialism in Eighteenth-Century European Thought
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
MATERIALISM IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPEAN THOUGHT. Materialism is the generic name of a variety of doctrines that deny the existence of non-material substances. Materialism may be either a metaphysical or a methodological concept...
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materialism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
materialism In sociology and related disciplines, the word materialism has three quite distinct meanings which are, however...moral or political controversy, according to which materialism refers to a prevailing pattern of desire for mere...
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