This book is a collection of papers delivered at an international conference in September 1996 at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art during a major Giacometti retrospective. The contributors are leading curators, art historians and literature specialists. While the relationship between nineteenth- and twentieth-century painters and writers has been the subject of intense interest in recent years, the parallel relationship between sculptors and writers has been largely neglected. These essays seek to redress the balance by looking at a variety of ways in which the conventional barriers between writing and sculpting were broken down by such pioneering figures as Rodin, Degas, Bourdelle, Valéry, Apollinaire, Reverdy, Breton, Bataille, Arp, Picasso and Giacometti. Among the topics discussed are: the many personal and professional contacts, dual artistic talent, 'Ecrits d'artistes', ekphrasis, sculpture as object, the sculptorly representation of the poet, the poetic representation of the sculptor, sculpture as metaphor, proprioception and mental images. Fully illustrated throughout, this book offers new perspectives on familiar masterpieces like Rodin's Gates of Hell, but also opens up less well known subjects like Valéry's sculpture and Breton's Object-Poems. Above all it makes a provocative and original contribution to Word and Image studies.

Line is an essential element in twentieth-century sculpture, and among the first to creatively explore the interpretation of figure through a single line was Auguste Rodin, whose 1893 bronzework L'Éternelle Idole is among the modernist masterpieces in the first-rate art collection of Elizabeth and Alexander Kasser. Line and Sculpture in Dialogue reproduces more than fifty works of art held by the Kasser/Mochary Family Foundation, among them Rodin's L'Éternelle Idole and works by Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Alberto Giacometti.Primarily sculptures and graphic art, the works offer new perspectives on modernism with special consideration to the artists' fascination with line as a means of representation. Together, the artworks also demonstrate the shift within modernism toward abstraction. Beautifully illustrated, this volume offers a fascinating look at the development of new methods and styles within twentieth-century sculpture.

L'auteur constate l'abandon par la majorité des sculpteurs contemporains de l'exploitation des composants traditionnels de la sculpture, et le développement parallèle d'un travail général sur les potentialités de la plastique. A travers l'analyse de trois sculptures données comme exemplaires, il étudie le travail des sculpteurs traditionnels afin d'approcher l'intentionalité des oeuvres.

Le présent ouvrage est réalisé à l'occasion de l'exposition du même nom présentée au MUba Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing, du 14 octobre 2017 au 8 janvier 2018.00Jusqu?à l?époque moderne, le socle a joué un rôle purement fonctionnel. Avec "Les Bourgeois de Calais", Auguste Rodin, pour la première fois, interroge le rôle du socle en l?intégrant à l?œuvre. Un peu plus tard, Constantin Brancusi en fait sculpture à part entière ; les socles multiples, qu?il empile parfois jusqu?à quatre ou cinq, constituent ainsi des édifices complexes ayant leur propre raison d?être. C?est sa "Colonne sans fin", sculpture qui a particulièrement retenu l?attention de Carl Andre. L?américain emprunte à celle-ci la répétition d?un motif simple pour créer ses premières sculptures minimalistes : combinaison de modules de bois brut aux formes géométriques élémentaires.

The first book on the Meadows Museum's outstanding collection of Modernist sculptures, bringing them to life in colour photography and with an elegant design. The world's most renowned sculptors are featured. Featuring works by many of the leading twentieth-century Modernists, the sculpture collection of the Meadows Museum in Dallas, Texas, is an American gem. Large- and small-scale works by renowned artists such as Jacques Lipchitz, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi and Claes Oldenburg can be seen on the Museum's welcoming outdoor plaza, while important figural sculptures by Auguste Rodin, Aristide Maillol and Alberto Giacometti are on display within the Museum. This elegantly designed book is the first publication on this outstanding collection, offering photography by Laura Wilson and new scholarship by Steven A. Nash on works by some of the most accomplished artists to work in three dimensions. Follow @MeadowsMuseum on Twitter (1630 followers).