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they carry their original vision of the New Society always outgrown (clarity, logic, order, etc) ; it justifies the
with them, and most Western values are made to look effacement of the artist's personality in his work in terms
tarnished or superficial when set against it. Gabo's Con- which make nine-tenths of recent art seem self-indulgent
structive Idea—more of a philosophy of life than an and narcissistic; and it gives the classic definition of how
artistic credo—pleads for the primacy in art of most of the the roles of art and science would be related in a more
old-fashioned virtues Western art currently affects to have reasonable world. The case is put with what certainly

Monument for an observatory
1922
Plastic, metal, wood