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AMERICAN SCULPTURE
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Europe, our forefathers, whether Cav-
alier or Roundhead, would earlier have
found room for art as a need and a
natural expression of the freer life
they sought. As for the distinctively
Puritan view, that view too often
(though perhaps not as often as we
now think) denied and persecuted
beauty in the fierce Puritan concentra-
tion upon holiness. It is true that
art, in its blither and more genial
guise, slips away from the society of
the sour-visaged. But it is also true
that a great tragic expression in art
sometimes bursts uncontrollably from
peoples or persons with minds exacer-
bated by long fortitudes. We learn
this from the Belgian sculptor Meunier
brooding over his brothers of the
Black Country, from the Serbian sculp-
tor Mestrovic immortalizing in stone
his country’s stern legends, from the
poet Dante treading his Inferno. But
the Florentine and the Serbian and the
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