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The sculptural imagination : figurative, modernist, minimalist /

Title:
The sculptural imagination : figurative, modernist, minimalist /
Author:
Potts, Alex.
Published:
New Haven : c2000.
Format:
Book
Institution:
MassArt, Lesley Moriarty
Contents:
Introduction: The sculptural imagination and the viewing of sculpture -- Classical figures -- A sculptural aesthetic -- Surface values: Canova -- Modern figures -- Sculpture and modernity -- Rodin, Rilke and sculptural things -- Modernist objects and plastic form -- Modernism and the situation of sculpture -- The problem of sculptural form -- Sculpture as object: Brancusi -- Modernist sculpture -- The idea of a modern sculpture -- Sculpture as collage, as monster: David Smith -- Minimalism and High Modernism -- Literalism and objecthood -- Theatricality -- Aesthetic theory -- The phenomenological turn -- Sculpture and phenomenological theory -- Perception and presence -- Merleau-Ponty and the viewing of art -- The performance of viewing -- The staging of sculpture: Morris -- From public to private -- The siting of sculpture: Serra -- Objects and spaces -- Specific objects: Judd -- 'A single thing ... open and extended' -- Space, time and situation -- The negated presence of sculpture -- A sculptural imagination: Andre -- Place, concept and desire -- Borderlines, 'nothing, everything': Hesse -- Conclusion: Arenas and objects of sculpture: Bourgeois.

Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Lesley-Moriarty Library Stacks
NB1142.5 .P68 2000Available
MassArt Main
NB1142.5 .P68 2000Available