Word: gobbet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simian mask and opulent villas. He was, it seemed, the existentialist answer to Mediterranean man. And as such he appeared to be one of the very few sculptors who, in the 20th century, had discovered a fresh convention for the human body - spindly and eroded, impossibly vertical, a gobbet of clay stretched toward infinity. The idea that Giacometti's achievement was to have found a new stylization of the body has stuck to him in death, though it repelled him in life. "It is a monstrous misunderstanding!" he once exclaimed. "All the critics, all the writers spoke about...