Sculpture Today

Contemporary sculpture is a wide-ranging and fascinating subject, surprisingly unrepresented in the current marketplace. This beautifully illustrated book is a comprehensive overview of developments in the world of sculpture during the past fifty years, and follows the successful, highly illustrated formula of Phaidon's best-selling volumes "Art Today" and "Architecture Today". In the great sea-change marking the end of Modernism - a general set of views and assumptions about art which reigned during the first half of the twentieth century - critical opinion began to shift from painting to sculpture. Sculpture was felt to be more socially engaging because it occupied actual space rather than creating an illusionistic realm using perspective and other techniques. In recent years sculpture has become a capacious and enormously inventive category that includes an astonishing range of phenomena. These encompass installations, environments, staged video displays and even choreographed humans. This sheer array of materials, forms and techniques that has been - and continues to be - presented under the term of 'sculpture' in the twenty-first century indicates that the discipline is not an immutable art form with fixed boundaries and commandments, but rather that it can expand its terms of reference with unflagging energy, and is apparently inexhaustible. Judith Collins' authoritative yet accessible text explores the various subjects, materials, techniques and styles utilized by contemporary sculptors and celebrates both the vitality and sheer diversity of this wide-ranging art form.

ISBN 0714843148   Pages 464 ISBN13 9780714843148 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Phaidon Press Ltd   Weight (grammes) 3198 Imprint Phaidon Press Ltd   Published in London Format Hardback   Height (mm) 290 Publication date 01 Oct 2007   Width (mm) 250 Library of Congress NB   Spine width (mm) 52 DEWEY 735.235   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

		Introduction		6
1		The Figure		12
2		The Body Fragmented		54
3		Strange Creatures		74
4		Post-Pop Objects		98
5		Architecture & Furniture		118
6		Cultural Diversity		144
7		Traditional Materials		170
8		Ephemeral Effects		196
9		Inspired by Nature		224
10		Colour, Surface & Light		244
11		Memory		276
12		Clothing		298
13		Monumentality		320
14		Installation		344
15		Gravity		362
16		Size & Scale		386
17		Accumulation		412
18		Minimalism		436
		Artists' Biographies		462
		Chronology		474
		Bibliography		476
		Index		478

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