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Modern Sculpture

Artists in Their Own Words
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Modern Sculpture is a comprehensive collection of primary sources offering an essential primer on sculpture and its creators. Edited by Douglas Dreishpoon, the book features manifestos, statements, articles, and interviews from over ninety sculptors, including many contemporary voices. It traces sculptureโ€™s evolution over more than a century, highlighting shifts from object to action and concept to phenomenon. Organised chronologically, the chapters reveal key stylistic, philosophical, and thematic connections among artists, presenting an artist-centred history of this influential medium.
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This tapestry of primary sources is an essential primer on sculpture and its makers.

Modern Sculpture presents a selection of manifestos, documents, statements, articles, and interviews from more than ninety sculptors, including a diverse selection of contemporary sculptors. With this book, editor Douglas Dreishpoon defers to artists, whose varied points of view illuminate sculptureโ€™s transformationโ€”from object to action, concept to phenomenonโ€”over the course of more than a century.

Chapters arranged in chronological sequences highlight dominant stylistic, philosophical, and thematic threads uniting kindred groups. The result is an artist-centric history of sculpture as a medium of consequence and character.

Series: Documents of Twentieth-Century Art

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520297494

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 October 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 55 b-w illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Douglas Dreishpoon

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 953g

Pages: 440

About the Author

Douglas Dreishpoon,ย Chief Curator Emeritus at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York, is currently director of the catalogue raisonnรฉ project at the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and consulting editor at theย Brooklyn Rail. He is the coauthor ofย Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1988โ€“2009.

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