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With Robert Laurent and William Zorach, direct carving enters into the story of modem sculpture in the United States. Direct car

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问题     With Robert Laurent and William Zorach, direct carving enters into the story of modem sculpture in the United States. Direct carving—in which the sculptors themselves carve stone or wood with mallet and chisel—just be recognized as something more than just a technique. Implicit in it is an aesthetic principle as well: that the medium has certain qualities of beauty and expressiveness with which sculptors must bring their own aesthetic sensibilities into harmony. For example, sometimes the shape or veining in a piece of stone or wood suggests, perhaps even dictates, not only the ultimate form, but even the subject matter.
    The technique of direct, carving was a break with the nineteenth-century tradition in which the making of a clay model was considered the creative act and the work was then turned over to studio assistants to be cast in plaster or bronze or carved in marble. Neoclassical sculptors seldom held a mallet or chisel in their own hands, readily conceding that the assistants they employed were far better than they were at carving the finished marble.
    With the turn-of-the-century Crafts movement and the discovery of nontraditional sources of inspiration, such as wooden African figure and masks, there arose a new urge for hands-on, personal execution of art and an interaction with the medium. Even as early as the 1880’s and 1890’s, nonconformist European artists were attempting direct carving. By the second decade of the twentieth century, Americans—Laurent and Zorach most notably—had adopted it as their primary means of working.
    Born in France, Robert Laurent (1890-1970) was a prodigy who received his education in the United States. In 1905 he was sent to Paris as an apprentice to an art dealer, and in the years that followed he witnessed the birth of Cubism, discovered primitive art, and learned the techniques of woodcarving from a frame maker.
    Back in New York City by 1910, Laurent began carving pieces such as The Priestess, which reveals his fascination with African, pre-Columbian, and South Pacifican. Taking a walnut plank, the sculptor carved the expressive, stylized design. It is one of the earliest examples of direct carving in American sculpture. The plank’s form dictated the rigidly frontal view and the low relief. Even its irregular shape must have appealed to Laurent as a break with a long-standing tradition that required a sculptor to work within a perfect rectangle or square.
选项 A、A sculptor must work with talented assistants.
B、The subject of a sculpture should be derived from classical stories.
C、The material is an important element in a sculpture.
D、Designing a sculpture is a more creative activity than carving it.
答案C
解析 本题考查理解文章所给信息，并据此进行概括的能力。文章第一段就介绍了什么是direct carving以及direct carving的美学原则："the medium has certain qualities of beauty and expressiveness with which sculptors must bring their own aesthetic sensibilities into harmony"．确切地说，就是雕刻所用的材质也是影响雕刻作品的一个关键因素。
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