The Figure in American Sculpture: A Question of Modernity Tapa dura - 1995

University of Washington Press, 1995-02. Hardcover. Good. 1.0000 11.9800 8.8700.

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art / University of Washington Press, 1995. Hardcover. Near new, fresh unused condition, covers bright, text clean & binding tight / bright and crisp dust jacket. Size: 9"x12", 247 pp., 181 illustrations with some in colour.

Los Angeles / Seattle: Los Angeles County Museum of Art / University of Washington Press, 1995. Hardcover. VG+/VG. Black cloth, gilt lettering, black DJ. 248 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. Text essays by Ilene Susan Fort, with contributions by other authors. A wonderful publication! Exhibition held at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb. 26 to Apr. 30, 1995, three other dates. Although most modern art historians viewed the figure as regressive, early-20th-century American sculptors embraced the human form. Curator of American Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fort presents a wide selection of works from this period, not as a movement from the naturalistic to the abstract but as a reflection of a rapidly changing American society. While she sees much modern American sculpture as rooted in the works of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), she shows how the figure?whether represented in genre, primitive, folk, archaic, or classical styles?allowed artists to criticize or praise modern society.… Leer más

Los Angeles and Seattle: Los Angeles County Museum of Art in association with University of Washington Press, 1995. Cloth, 247 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 26 to April 30, 1995 and three others. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "The Figure in American Sculpture: A Question of Modernity presents American modernist sculpture in its larger cultural and social context. With the example of Auguste Rodin for inspiration, Americans at the turn of the century began to think of sculpture as a personal mode of expression, abandoning the commemorative function of late nineteenth-century art. During the first four decades of this century sculptors documented ordinary activities, often attacking the social ills of the day, and found escape from the technological advancements and… Leer más

Lacma, 1995 12" x 9". 247 pp. Book that accompanied the exhibition. Numerous colour and b&w photos. Blue cloth with gilt titles on spine and front board. Bright clean copy. DJ has some light shelf wear. This book weighs 1.5 kg, extra postage may be requested.

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Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. New/New. 11.9x8.9x1.0in. The catalogue of an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 26 - April 30, 1995, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, June 22 - September 10, 1995, Wichita Art Museum, October 22, 1995 - January 7, 1996, and the National Academy of Design, New York, February 15 - May 5, 1996. 181 works are described and illustrated. Contains six essays: The Cult of Rodin and the Birth of Modernism in America by Ilene Susan Fort; "Sculpture Has Never Been Through a Medium Particularly Feminine" by Marlene Park; "Mere Beauty No Longer Suffice": The Response of Genre Sculpture by Ilene Susan Fort; Primitivism, Folk Art, and the Exotic by Roberta K. Tarbell; Creating the New Black Image by Mary L. Lenihan; and Avant-Garde or Kitsch? Modern and Modernistic in American Sculpture between the Wars by Susan Rather. Also includes biographies of the artists whose works were exhibited. 248pp 2.95lb 11.9x8.9x1.0in