Origins of Modern Sculpture: Pioneers and Premises
Softbound
1974 · New York
by Elsen, Albert E.
New York: George Braziller, 1974. Softbound. VG. Orange bw illustrated wraps. 179 pp., 168 bw plates. A standard reference with a lot of useful information. Index to illustrations. Contents as follows: I. -- Sculpture as it was -- The crisis of sculpture before World War I -- The subject of modernity -- The nude -- The new sexual candor -- La vie moderne -- Alternatives to the monument: some exemplary figures in modern sculpture -- Changes in what gives sculpture meaning: the modern sculptural metaphor -- Self-portraits of the sculptors -- The portrait -- The evocative head -- Objects as subjects -- Abstraction -- II. -- The revolution in form -- Questions that lead to the premises of early modern sculpture -- The partial figure -- Expression -- Proportions -- New skin for sculpture -- Invention and the invasion of sculpture by space -- Color and sculpture -- The courtship of light -- The passing of the pedestal: bringing sculpture down to earth -- Ways and means: the fickleness of fidelity to the medium -- The revolution in relief sculpture -- The new history of relief -- Post scriptum -- Summary. (Inventory #: 103400)