Editing Statue (section)

===Modern era===
Starting with the work of [[Maillol]] around 1900, the human figures embodied in statues began to move away from the various schools of realism that had been followed for thousands of years. The [[Futurist]] and [[Cubist]] schools took this metamorphism even further until statues, often still nominally representing humans, had lost all but the most rudimentary relationship to the human form.  By the 1920s and 1930s statues began to appear that were completely abstract in design and execution.<ref>Giedion-Welcker, Carola, ‘’Contemporary Sculpture: An Evolution in Volume and Space, A revised and Enlarged Edition’’, Faber and Faber, London, 1961 pp. X to XX</ref>

The [[urban legend|notion]] that the position of the hooves of horses in [[equestrian statue]]s indicated the rider's cause of death has been disproved.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.htm|title=Statue of Limitations |author=Barbara Mikkelson |date=2 August 2007 |website=Snopes.com |access-date=9 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_074.html |title=In statues, does the number of feet the horse has off the ground indicate the fate of the rider? |author=Cecil Adams |date=6 October 1989 |work=The Straight Dope |publisher=Chicago Reader |access-date=9 June 2011}}</ref>