Sculpture 1900-1945

Name: Sculpture 1900-1945
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ISBN: 9780192842282

ISBN-10: 0192842285

ISBN-13: 9780192842282

Edition: 1999

Authors: Penelope Curtis

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Sculpture 1900-1945 provides a new critical analysis of the fascinating development of sculpture in Europe and America during this important period in art history. The most comprehensive concise history of modern sculpture available, this account puts sculpture back into relation with a range of other phenomena, encompassing many kinds of architects, sculptors, and painters, with widely differing kinds of practices. Penelope Curtis takes Rodin as her point of departure and recurrent point of reference, building a story that necessarily begins in Paris, the major artistic center of the era, and evolves around responses to Rodin by sculptors in France, Germany, Britain, and America. She…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/2/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 298
Size: 9.30" wide x 6.40" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English




The Public Place of Sculpture


Cityscape


Urban planning


World's fairs and universal exhibitions


Hierarchy of labour


Working with architects


Art nouveau


Art deco


Cemetery


War graves


Ensembles



The Tradition of the Monument


Statuemania


Form


Site and process


Nationalisms


Authoritarianism


Changing parameters



Direct Expression through the Material


Reaction to industrialisation


Honesty and authenticity


Modelling versus carving


Sources


Reciprocity


New orthodoxy


Sites


Assistance


Speed


Assemblage


Inter-disciplinary



The Private Arena: The possibilities of painting, pictorialism and the spatial environment


Rodin


Private space


Fixing change


Photography


Painterliness


Painting's means and subjects


Relief and collage


The group ethic; Paris 1930


neo-plasticism



The Object: Function, Invitation and Interaction


The object


The readymade


Anti-function and instruction


Presentation


Literature


Absence, image, need


Dali and the Surrealist Object


The involuntary object


taking over the interior


taking over the ground



A Shared Ideal: Building a New Environment


Art and Craft


Art and Industry


Synthesis


Team-work; Bauhaus and VKhUTEMAS


Teaching


Production


Laboratory


Theatre


Exhibitions


Architecture



The Figurative Ideal


After Rodin


Simplification


Archaism


Figural types, heavy and light


Anonymity


Luxury and leisure


Classical themes


Nationalisms


Celebratory body


Monumental body


Loss of ideal


Conclusion


Notes


List of Illustrations


Bibliographic Essay


Timeline


Index