Painting and Sculpture in Israel
Ḥaim Gamzu
1957
It is not enough to see a statue. A statue has to be sensed with the fingertips. In our imagination we touch the statue, caress it, examine its rounded and hollow surfaces, and by doing so our sense of vision becomes identical, for a moment, with the sense of touch. [ . . . ]
Here, to be sure, we give no more than a bare selection from the many…
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