He never completely let go of the descriptive character of his work . In his sculptural work (Fig . 2 ) he maintains an awkward balance between the radical character of Cubist traditions and his desire to maintain a likeness . In this case , the piece looks like an icon to motion and progress and ironically discloses disdain for the whole history of figurative sculpture . Perhaps the greatest irony was the artist 's welcome to the First World War as a ``cleansing ' of culture...











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