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amounts to moral fervour, CI have ever so often been psychic tension and anxiety. But Gabo's own work is
mistaken for an ecclesiastic evangelist which I am not'), probably as far removed as it is possible to get from the
and it is coupled with a profound distrust about the times faintest intimation of the tragic—even that power of
he lives in and the kind of art they produce (doctors will darkness that any sculptural mass contains is banished
tell you, as he puts it, that there are patients who grow to by the Constructivist renunciation of mass as a valid
enjoy their own illness). spatial element. In fact, it has been called, in the most
Antoine Pevsner, Gabo's elder brother, showed how an profound sense, an optimistic art. If that merely meant
art with its origins in Constructivist practice could be that its cleanness, precision, grace, and logic were plea-
turned to the expression of something very near to santer (perhaps even 'better') things to contemplate than

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