The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist

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A study of the sculptural imagination. Alex Potts explores the special qualities of sculpture as a free-standing, three-dimensional entity, and he considers the distinctive demands sculpture places on the viewer. The book begins with the 18th century and proceeds to the end of the 20th.

Author(s): Alex Potts
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 2001

Language: English
Pages: 432

Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: The Sculptural Imagination and the Viewing of Sculpture
1. Classical Figures
2. Modern Figures
3. Modernist Objects and Plastic Form
4. Modernist Sculpture
5. Minimalism and High Modernism
6. The Phenomenological Turn
7. The Performance of Viewing
8. Objects and Spaces
9. The Negated Presence of Sculpture
Conclusion: Arenas and Objects of Sculpture: Bourgeois
Notes
Photograph Credits
Index