History of art . n the shores or in the center of the dead are terrible figures, massive and summary, hold-ing their arms at their sides; almost without a cranium,they have bestial faces in which the nose is prominentand dilated and the eyes are wide open; the broadplanes in which they are established look as if theywere cut with an ax, but centuries, perhaps, wereneeded before the people could work the basalt ofwhich the figures are made. Why are they there,horribly alone, with their faces to the eternal sea, andwhat do they mean if it is not our inextinguishableneed to discover
History of art . n the shores or in the center of the dead are terrible figures, massive and summary, hold-ing their arms at their sides; almost without a cranium,they have bestial faces in which the nose is prominentand dilated and the eyes are wide open; the broadplanes in which they are established look as if theywere cut with an ax, but centuries, perhaps, wereneeded before the people could work the basalt ofwhich the figures are made. Why are they there,horribly alone, with their faces to the eternal sea, andwhat do they mean if it is not our inextinguishableneed to discover ourselves and recognize ourselves in THE TROPICS 187 the rebellious or cloeile material that our soil furnishesto us? A seismic catastrophe must have interruptedthe works and isolated them from the world. Thereare tools at the feet of the figures, but no other tracesof humanity. Where did those men who erected themtake refuge? Whence did they come? What unknownsources had slaked the thirst of these forerunners of.
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