The adventure of modern sculpture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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The adventure of modern sculpture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
(Sculpture, 4)
Taschen, c1996
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Originally published: Geneva : Skira, c1986
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This four-volume work examines 25000 years of sculpture, from ancient to modern times. Attention is paid to the changes both in the way the sculpted objects are presented, and in the materials and techniques used. Scultures coverd range from "Venus de Milo" to Damien Hurst's "Shark in a Tank".
Table of Contents
- Volume 1 Antiquity - the 8th century BC to the 5th century AD: Greek art
- Etruscan sculptures and the world of the Romans. Volume 2 The Middle ages - the 5th to the 15th century: the Romanesque
- gothic
- the liberal arts and Flamboyant style. Volume 3 From the Renaissance to the Rococo, the 15th to the 18th century. Volume 4 Modern art - the 19th and 20th centuries: tradition and the break from it
- avant-garde
- the German Empire
- new techniques
- minimal art and earthworks
- sculpture in dialogue with the town.
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