From the monuments of the ancient world to the modern waxwork museum, sculpture has been used to represent and make present the living and the dead. This stimulating book, published to coincide with an exhibition at the Holburne Museum, explores the peculiar power of the sculpted portrait and where that power comes from. Using examples from the ancient world to the modern day including work of contemporary artists such as Jeff Koons, Ron Mueck and Marc Quinn, it examines the way in which the sculpted portrait has been used and the different forms it has taken. In particular the book explores what is unique about the sculpted portrait as opposed to other forms of portraiture with regards to the use of death and life masks and their implications, the impact of changes in scale and the absence or presence of colour. It also examines the importance of the context in which a sculpture is presented or conceived.
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'An excellent book' --Laura Cumming, The Guardian
'The book packs quite a punch, being small in size but crammed full of ideas, images, thoughts and comparisons, all tumbling out at the reader, yet expressed in the most lucid and elegant prose.' --Cassone
'The book packs quite a punch, being small in size but crammed full of ideas, images, thoughts and comparisons, all tumbling out at the reader, yet expressed in the most lucid and elegant prose.' --Cassone
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Alexander Sturgis is Director of the Holburne Museum in Bath and was previously a curator at the National Gallery in London. Portraiture has been one of his abiding interests and the subject of a number of books he has written and exhibitions he has curated including 'Faces' (National Gallery, 1998) and 'Rebels and Martyrs: the Image of the Artist in the Nineteenth Century' (NG 2005). He lives outside Bath with his wife Anna and their three children.
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