- Paperback: 298 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; illustrated edition edition (21 Oct 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0192842285
- ISBN-13: 978-0192842282
- Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 16.6 x 1.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 524,450 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the significant growth of sculpture as an artistic form in Europe and America from 1900-1945. Using a clearly-defined thematic structure it identifies key issues and developments throughout this important period in the history of art. Individual chapters cover: public sculpture, the monument, the object, image-making, the built environment, the figurative ideal, and different materials. These themes broadly reflect the changing cultural and political climate of a turbulent period which included two world wars, each preceded by widespread rising nationalism. The practice of sculpture is considered within the wider artistic context of painting and architecture and the development of international art markets. 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.
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Penelope Curtis was born in London in 1961 and grew up in Glasgow. Postgraduate research in Paris led to her PhD on E. A. Bourdelle and Monumental Sculpture in France 1880-1930. In 1988 she joined the new Tate Gallery Liverpool as Exhibitions Curator. In 1994 she moved to the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, where as Curator she is now responsible for a programme of historical and contemporary sculpture exhibitions and other activities. She has published studies of Oto Gutfreund, E.
A. Bourdelle, Barbara Hepworth, Julio Gonzalez and twentieth-century British sculpture, and written catalogue essays for a number of contemporary artists.
A. Bourdelle, Barbara Hepworth, Julio Gonzalez and twentieth-century British sculpture, and written catalogue essays for a number of contemporary artists.
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All around us, in our streets and city squares and on the facades of the buildings we walk past, is the work of the sculptors of the early twentieth century [2]. Read the first page
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