Main entry:

Elsen, Albert E., 1927-1995, author

Title & Author:

Origins of modern sculpture: pioneers and premises [by] Albert E. Elsen.

Publication:

New York, G. Braziller [1974]
©1974

Description:

ix, 179 pages illustrations 27 cm

Notes:
An enlarged and altered version of the introduction to the author's Pioneers of modern sculpture originally published in 1973.
An enl. and altered version of the introd. to the author's Pioneers of modern sculpture originally published in 1973.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.

Summary:

An examination of revolutionary sculptors and pieces of sculpture that emerged between 1890 and 1918.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0807607363
9780807607367
0807607371 (pbk.)
9780807607374 (pbk.)

Subject:

Sculpture, Modern 19th century.
Sculpture, Modern 20th century.
Sculpture, Modern.
Sculpture 19e siècle.
Sculpture 20e siècle.
21.52 history of sculpture.
Plastische kunst.
Modernism in sculpture 19th Century.
Sculpture 20th century.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293257
Call No.: BIB 238028
Status: Available