"It was the spirit . . . not merely African but universal, which was truly captured by modern Cubist artists. The fact that they collected African sculptures meant that these moderns lived with them sufficiently to absorb the sculpturesâ radiance, and not merely to âborrowâ forms. They did not divide the form from the content, any more than the human body can be separated from the mind. It was an âinfluence,â if one wishes to use this word; but an influence of the content which was first digested in its essence by the artists, and then recreated by them."
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On the influence of African religion on art. African Traditional Religion, Third Edition, 2009 by Aloysius M. Lugira, quoting Ladislas Segy, African Sculpture Speaks.
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