The necessity of sculpture : selected essays and criticism, 1985-2019 / Eric Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, Eric, 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sculpture.

Sculptors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Criterion Books, [2020]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Dedication

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 Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9781641771092

1641771097

OCLC:

1455139216