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Sculpture Vertical, Horizontal, Closed, Open
This book examines the fundamental similarities shared by all sculptures, regardless of the culture or time period in which they were created. Focusing on a wide range of British and European examples, of many periods, Penelope Curtis explores crucial sculptural concepts such as the vertical and the horizontal, the open and the closed. In doing so, she elucidates the powerful, and often surprising, properties of objects made in vastly different sociocultural contexts. Sculpture also expands the notion of sculpture to include the objects of everyday life and investigates the ways in which we approach sculpture as an art form. Stressing the fact that sculpture has been historically linked with rites of passage and moments of change and transformation, this revelatory study argues that the experience of sculpture is a universal and primal phenomenon that cuts across particular historical styles and epochs.
Sculpture 1900-1945
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the significant growth of sculpture as an artistic form in Europe and America from 1900-1945. Using a clearly-defined thematic structure it identifies key issues and developments throughout this important period in the history of art. Individualchapters cover: public sculpture, the monument, the object, image-making, the built environment, the figurative ideal, and different materials. These themes broadly reflect the changing cultural and political climate of a turbulent period which included two world wars, each preceded by widespreadrising nationalism. The practice of sculpture is considered within the wider artistic context of painting and architecture and the development of international art markets. Auguste Rodin, whose ground-breaking exhibition opened in Paris in 1900, serves as the book's point of departure, and as arecurrent point of reference.
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Patio and Pavilion
This book examines the relationship between modern sculpture and architecture in the mid-twentieth century, an interplay that has laid the ground for the semi-sculptural or semi-architectural works by architects such as Frank Gehry and artists such as Dan Graham. The first half of the book looks at how the addition of sculpture enhanced several architectural projects, including Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion (1929) and Eliel Saarinen's Cranbrook Campus (1934). The second half of the book uses several additional case studies, including Philip Johnson's sculpture court for New York's Museum of Modern Art (1953), to explore what architectural spaces can add to the sculpture they are designed to contain. Curtis argues that it was in the middle of the twentieth century, before sculptural and architectural forms began to converge, that the complementary nature of--though essential difference between--the two art forms began to clearly emerge: how figurative sculpture highlighted the modernist architectural experience and how the abstract qualities of that architecture imparted to sculpture a heightened role.
Tate Britain Companion
Providing a concise accessible introduction to British art, this is published to coincide with the new chronological re-hanging of the Tate Collection at Tate Britain. With entries of on over 170 artworks, representing the unrivalled collection at Tate Britain, this is the story of British art over the last five hundred years.
Art on Display
As part of the 50th anniversary of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, the exhibition 'Art on Display' explores the display solutions found for the opening of the Museum in 1969 and focuses more generally on the design of museums and exhibitions at that time.00The catalogue accompanying the exhibition opens with a curatorial note explaining the aims and characteristics of the exhibition, taking into account that it is held at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon and at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam at different times.00In addition, the catalogue reflects the dual objective of exploring both exhibition design at the Gulbenkian Museum and other significant examples of post-war internat...
Sculpture in 20th Century Britain
Preface by Penelope Curtis. Essays by Yves Abrioux, Michael Archer, Dore Ashton, Paul Atterbury, Nick Baker, Stephen Bann, Anne Barlow, Martin Barlow, Bruce Bateman, Lee Beard, Jonathan Black, Jonathan Blackwood, Iwona Blazwick, Stacy Boldrick, Nigel Boonham, Paul Bonaventura, Alison Bracker, Will Bradley, Tim Brennan, Katrina Brown, Ron Brown, Ann Bukantas, Stuart Burch, Robert Burstow, Eric Cameron, Roger Cardinal, Andrew Causey, Keith Chapman, Zelda Cheatle, Andrew Clay, Elizabeth Clegg, David Cohen, Judith Collins, Judy Collischan, Ann Compton, Lynne Cooke, Suzanne Cotter, Cathy Courtney, Sacha Craddock, J Craig Stirling, Sarah Crellin, Andrew Cross, Penelope Curtis, Simon Cutts, Jo Dark...
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St. Ives Artists
Penelope Curtis tells the story of the life and work of one of the central figures of 20th century sculpture. She discusses her art in the light of Hepworth's contemporaries, among them Henry Moore and Ben Nicholson.
