The Necessity of Sculpture
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The Necessity of Sculpture

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The Necessity of Sculpture

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The Necessity of Sculpture brings together a selection of articles on sculpture and sculptors from Eric Gibson's nearly four-decade career as an art critic. It covers subjects as diverse as Mesopotamian cylinder seals, war memorials, and the art of the American West; stylistic periods such as the Hellenistic in Ancient Greece and Kamakura in medieval Japan; Michelangelo, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and other historical figures; modernists like Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, and Alberto Giacometti; and contemporary artists including Richard Serra, Rachel Whiteread, and Jeff Koons. Organized chronologically by artist and period, this collection is as much a synoptic history of sculpture as it is an art chronicle. At the same time, it is an illuminating introduction to the subject for anyone coming to it for the first time.

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Publisher
Criterion Books
eBook ISBN
9781641771092
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art général
CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgments
Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals: Epics in miniature
Hellenistic Bronzes: A revolution in sculpture
Netherlandish Boxwood Rosary Beads: Medieval marvels
The Kamakura Period: A renaissance in Asia
Bertoldo di Giovanni: The missing link
Michelangelo: Is it or isn’t it?
Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Fingers moving at the speed of thought
Jean-Antoine Houdon: The prehensile eye
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt: About face
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Pressuring the old order
Auguste Rodin: The indispensable man
Edgar Degas: The “Little Dancer” – An impression indelible in wax
Medardo Rosso: Fugitive figures
Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Reinventing the American monument
Frederic Remington et al.: A cast of the American character
Constantin Brancusi I: Rethinking the figure
Constantin Brancusi II: Material matters
Jacob Epstein et al.: Bright-eyed British moderns
Charles Sargeant Jagger: An unblinking view of war
Naum Gabo: Utopian visions
Pablo Picasso I: “Bull’s Head” (1942) – A magical metamorphosis of the ordinary
Pablo Picasso II: Shuttling between dimensions
Julio González: Modern art’s bright flame
Alberto Giacometti: An artist renewed
Henry Moore I: The artist as critic
Henry Moore II: Shelter scenes and other drawings
Anne Truitt: Minimal form, maximum feeling
Richard Serra I: Paper weight
Richard Serra II: Sculpture in the active voice
H. C. Westermann: The absurdity of the absurd
Mark di Suvero: Playground populist
William Tucker: Speaking “the language of sculpture”
Martin Puryear: The meticulous and the magical
Jack Whitten: Ritual objects
Rachel Whiteread: Where memories dwell
Jeff Koons: Avatar of a new order
Image
Prayer Bead with the Adoration of the Magi and the Crucifixion (early 16th century), Netherlandish.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Image
Standing Shōtoku Taishi at Age Two (Namubutsu Taishi) (late 13th–14th century), Kamakura period.
Larry Ellison Collection.
Image
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Modello for the Fountain of the Moor (1653).
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
Image
Jean-Antoine Houdon, Armand-Thomas Hue, Marquis de Miromesnil (1777).
Copyright The Frick Collection.
Image
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Ugolino and His Sons (1865–67).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation Inc. Gift, Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation Inc. Gift, and Fletcher Fund, 1967.
Image
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Robert Gould Shaw Memorial (1900), patinated plaster cast.
U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service,...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Preface and Acknowledgments
  7. Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals: Epics in miniature
  8. Hellenistic Bronzes: A revolution in sculpture
  9. Netherlandish Boxwood Rosary Beads: Medieval marvels
  10. The Kamakura Period: A renaissance in Asia
  11. Bertoldo di Giovanni: The missing link
  12. Michelangelo: Is it or isn’t it?
  13. Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Fingers moving at the speed of thought
  14. Jean-Antoine Houdon: The prehensile eye
  15. Franz Xaver Messerschmidt: About face
  16. Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Pressuring the old order
  17. Auguste Rodin: The indispensable man
  18. Edgar Degas: The “Little Dancer” – An impression indelible in wax
  19. Medardo Rosso: Fugitive figures
  20. Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Reinventing the American monument
  21. Frederic Remington et al.: A cast of the American character
  22. Constantin Brancusi I: Rethinking the figure
  23. Constantin Brancusi II: Material matters
  24. Jacob Epstein et al.: Bright-eyed British moderns
  25. Charles Sargeant Jagger: An unblinking view of war
  26. Naum Gabo: Utopian visions
  27. Pablo Picasso I: “Bull’s Head” (1942) – A magical metamorphosis of the ordinary
  28. Pablo Picasso II: Shuttling between dimensions
  29. Julio González: Modern art’s bright flame
  30. Alberto Giacometti: An artist renewed
  31. Henry Moore I: The artist as critic
  32. Henry Moore II: Shelter scenes and other drawings
  33. Anne Truitt: Minimal form, maximum feeling
  34. Richard Serra I: Paper weight
  35. Richard Serra II:Sculpture in the active voice
  36. H. C. Westermann: The absurdity of the absurd
  37. Mark di Suvero: Playground populist
  38. William Tucker: Speaking “the language of sculpture”
  39. Martin Puryear: The meticulous and the magical
  40. Jack Whitten: Ritual objects
  41. Rachel Whiteread:Where memories dwell
  42. Jeff Koons: Avatar of a new order
  43. A Note on the Type