Main entry:

Potts, Alex.

Title & Author:

The sculptural imagination : figurative, modernist, minimalist / Alex Potts.

Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, ©2000.

Description:

xiii, 417 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The sculptural imagination and the viewing of sculpture -- Classical figures -- A sculptural aesthetic -- Surface values: Canova -- Modern figures -- Sculpture and modernity -- Rodin, Rilke and sculptural things -- Modernist objects and plastic form -- Modernism and the situation of sculpture -- The problem of sculptural form -- Sculpture as object: Brancusi -- Modernist sculpture -- The idea of a modern sculpture -- Sculpture as collage, as monster: David Smith -- Minimalism and High Modernism -- Literalism and objecthood -- Theatricality -- Aesthetic theory -- The phenomenological turn -- Sculpture and phenomenological theory -- Perception and presence -- Merleau-Ponty and the viewing of art -- The performance of viewing -- The staging of sculpture: Morris -- From public to private -- The siting of sculpture: Serra -- Objects and spaces -- Specific objects: Judd -- 'A single thing ... open and extended' -- Space, time and situation -- The negated presence of sculpture -- A sculptural imagination: Andre -- Place, concept and desire -- Borderlines, 'nothing, everything': Hesse -- Conclusion: Arenas and objects of sculpture: Bourgeois.

Summary:

"The book begins in the late eighteenth century, when a systematic formal distinction began to be made between painting and sculpture. Following changing attitudes toward sculpture through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Potts analyses for the first time the radical transformation that has occurred not only in the nature of sculptural works but also in their display and reception. He focuses on a broad range of texts by major writers who have in some way been obsessed by sculpture, including Johann Gottfried Herder, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Pater, Rainer Maria Rilke, Carl Einstein, Adrian Stokes and Clement Greenberg, and such artist-theorists as Adolf Hildebrand and Donald Judd.
Potts also offers a detailed view of selected iconic works by sculptors ranging from Antonio Canova and Auguste Rodin to Constantin Brancusi, David Smith, Carl Andre, Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois - key players in modern thinking about the sculptural. The impact of minimalism features prominently in this discussion, for it disrupted accepted understanding of how a viewer interacts with a work of art, thereby placing the phenomenology of viewing three-dimensional objects for the first time at the center of debate about modern visual art."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0300088019 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300088014 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Sculpture Appreciation.
Sculpture Appréciation.
Ästhetik
Plastik
Installation
Plastische kunst.
Installation <Kunst>

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217320
Call No.: NB1142.5 .P6 2000
Status: Available