What is Modern Sculpture?
Title | What is Modern Sculpture? PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Goldwater |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Sculpture, Modern |
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Designed as an introduction to modern sculpture, this book illustrates a representative selection of sculpture produced from the late nineteenth century to the present. Emphasizing direct enjoyment of individual works rather than historical sequence, it presents the sculptures in related groupings accompanied by texts that explain their formal character and the intentions that prompted their creation. Each section discusses diverse sculptures within a unifying theme such as the torso, the portrait, cubism, assemblage, relief and monuments.
Passages in Modern Sculpture
Title | Passages in Modern Sculpture PDF eBook |
Author | Rosalind E. Krauss |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1981-02-26 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9780262610339 |
Studies major works by important sculptors since Rodin in the light of different approaches to general sculptural issues to reveal the logical progressions from nineteenth-century figurative works to the conceptual work of the present.
Beyond Modern Sculpture
Title | Beyond Modern Sculpture PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Burnham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Sculpture |
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Origins of Modern Sculpture: Pioneers and Premises
Title | Origins of Modern Sculpture: Pioneers and Premises PDF eBook |
Author | Albert E. Elsen |
Publisher | New York : G. Braziller |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Art |
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An examination of revolutionary sculptors and pieces of sculpture that emerged between 1890 and 1918.
Materials and Processes of Contemporary Sculpture
Title | Materials and Processes of Contemporary Sculpture PDF eBook |
Author | Mahmoud Farag |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2020-01-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1527545806 |
Creating a successful sculpture requires an imaginative concept and a sound design that utilize the potential and avoid the limitations of the material and the process used in making it. Prior to a few decades ago, most sculptors were restricted to carving stone and wood or casting plaster, ceramics and bronze for their creations. Contemporary sculptors, however, are no longer bound by the limitations of these traditional materials and processes, and can now create works in sizes, forms and textures that could not have been achieved previously. Many modern sculptures are now made from materials ranging from steel and aluminum to plastics and composites using processes ranging from welding and adhesive bonding to molding and 3D printing. To fully utilize the full potential of such new materials, the sculptor needs to understand their points of strength, their limitations, and the most effective way of shaping them to achieve a given design. Although this book is written by a materials engineer, the subject matter is presented from the point of view of the sculptor with emphasis on the strengths and weaknesses of different materials, their resistance to weather conditions, natural color and possible surface textures, possible methods of shaping and joining, tools and equipment needed, and safety measures to take. Whenever possible, case studies are used to illustrate the sequence of processes and the cost elements involved in shaping a given material to create an actual work of sculpture.
Methods for Modern Sculptors
Title | Methods for Modern Sculptors PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald D. Young |
Publisher | |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Art |
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Modern Sculpture Reader
Title | Modern Sculpture Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Wood |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 546 |
Release | 2012-08-21 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1606061062 |
In many anthologies of art, sculpture is given short shrift in relation to other media, if it is treated at all. Modern Sculpture Reader aims to rectify this situation by presenting a collection of important texts that have defined sculpture’s radically changing status and role since the end of the nineteenth century, a time marked by a general reappraisal of the forms and functions of art. From the rigorously theoretical to the experimental and poetic, Modern Sculpture Reader offers a lively discourse on the medium by a range of artists, writers, critics, and poets—Marcel Duchamp, Louise Bourgeois, Claes Oldenberg, André Breton, Ezra Pound, and Clement Greenberg—in a variety of genres: poems, lectures, transcribed interviews, newspaper and magazine articles, and artists’ statements. These diverse text selections offer valuable insight into the development of the critical language of sculpture and its connections to other media in an era of increasingly conceptual artistic practice. Many of the essays highlight key ongoing concerns such as sculpture’s physical properties and conditions of display, both of which have important implications for the viewer’s tactile and emotional interaction with sculptural works.