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Author/Editor: COLLON Domiminique
Publisher: Burlington Magazine
Place Published: London
Year: 2015
Date & Collation: 2015 (May) 1pp (no illus)
Description: Review of book The Infinite Image. Art, Time and the Aesthetic Dimension of Antiquity by Zainab BAHRANI. Chapter 1 discusses the influence of Sumerian art of the third millennium BC and the contents of the 'Royal Graves' of Ur and the statues of Gudea of Lagash on twentieth century sculpture. Moore quoted for me Sumerian sculpture ranks [with] the great sculpture of the world . . . the effect of this figure [of Gudea] has been ruined by the way it been abominably mounted on a wooden stand" He also deplored how it's green diorite surface was blackened with wax."