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Sculpture is by tradition a public art. Apart from the flurry of activity to
produce in the main, uninspiring and sculpturally sterile monuments to
commemorate the dead of two world wars — the twentieth century has
produced very little to compare with the vogue for monuments that
characterized the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The symbolism
traditionally associated with public monuments has been rejected by
much of the new work which no longer associates itself with decoration,
nor does it serve to glorify deserving individuals.