by JamesHall (Author)
This cultural history, delving back through the centuries, sets out to answer how sculpture, for so long regarded as a more limited art, has come to take a leading role today? From the Renaissance to the 19th century, sculpture was painting's poor relation. Yet, from the start of the 20th century, sculpture increasingly took centre stage: the Turner Prize is usually won by a sculptor of some form. This book aims to answer the questions: why is this, and what has happened? Illustrated throughout, containing charaters and bizarre incidents as well as illuminating examples and heated arguments, this work offers a guide to the art of the past and up to the end of the 20th century.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 06 Apr 2000
ISBN 10: 0712664424
ISBN 13: 9780712664424
Book Overview: A vivid and powerfully-argued account of 400 years of sculpture from one of the UK's most brilliant young critics