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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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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