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Sculpture 1900-1945 : after Rodin / Penelope Curtis.

By: Series: Oxford history of artPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: xi, 286 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780192842282
  • 0192842285
  • 9780192100450
  • 0192100459
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Contents:
The public place of sculpture -- The tradition of the monument -- Direct expression through the material -- The private arena: the possibilities of painting, pictorialism, and the spatial environment -- The object: function, invitation, and interaction -- A shared ideal : building a new environment -- The figurative ideal.
Summary: This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the expansion of sculpture as an artistic form in Europe and the United States from 1900 to 1945. Well-known artists such as Brancusi, Arp, Tatlin, and Duchamp are covered alongside less familiar sculptors to provide a full picture of the diverse development of sculpture in this important period. Chapters focus on themes chosen to reflect the changing cultural and political climate of a turbulent time. These themes include public sculpture, the monument, the approach to different materials, the object, image-making, the built environment, and the figurative ideal. The practice of sculpture is considered within the wider artistic context of painting and architecture and the development of an integrated environment. Auguste Rodin, whose ground-breaking exhibition opened in Paris in 1900, serves as the book's point of departure, and as a recurrent point of reference.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The public place of sculpture -- The tradition of the monument -- Direct expression through the material -- The private arena: the possibilities of painting, pictorialism, and the spatial environment -- The object: function, invitation, and interaction -- A shared ideal : building a new environment -- The figurative ideal.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the expansion of sculpture as an artistic form in Europe and the United States from 1900 to 1945. Well-known artists such as Brancusi, Arp, Tatlin, and Duchamp are covered alongside less familiar sculptors to provide a full picture of the diverse development of sculpture in this important period. Chapters focus on themes chosen to reflect the changing cultural and political climate of a turbulent time. These themes include public sculpture, the monument, the approach to different materials, the object, image-making, the built environment, and the figurative ideal. The practice of sculpture is considered within the wider artistic context of painting and architecture and the development of an integrated environment. Auguste Rodin, whose ground-breaking exhibition opened in Paris in 1900, serves as the book's point of departure, and as a recurrent point of reference.