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The article traces the distinctive history that unfolded after the disruption of the founding logic of sculpture in Australia. The author notes that Australian modernist sculpture closes in upon itself, instead of opening out to its surrounding physical location, as can be seen in "The Endless Column," by Constantin Brancusi, where the base takes over the whole form. According to the author, after modernism, sculpture acknowledged its physical placement and surrounds, and enters into a shifting matrix where its being emerges from multiple permutations with what is not, particularly not-architecture and not-landscape. "The Dobell Memorial Sculpture," by Bert Flugelman, also known as Pyramid Tower, originally located in Martin Place, Sydney, is one that is all base. |
