How to Look at Sculpture. A Thousand Years of Western Sculpture.
Hazan editions| N° d'inventaire | 23969 |
| Format | 13.5 X 20 |
| Détails | 336 p., numerous color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2017 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782754109826 |
What do we see? How were the different types of sculpture developed? How do we see? How does the sculptor express himself? What is the purpose of sculpture? Where can we contemplate sculpted works? What has been said about them? The objective of this book is not to offer a general history of sculpture, but rather to provide the reader – student, amateur, curious, scholar – with keys to improve his or her perspective and understanding of the works, by accepting the challenge of embracing a millennium of sculpture in the Western cultural sphere.
Art of space, art of time, like music, sculpture is an object of study that is difficult to grasp. One must go around it, multiply the points of view, move around, be capable of envisioning an extremely complex combination of formal qualities, traversing a thousand years of history and styles.
Eight chapters offer as many ways to look at sculpture: through places, techniques, forms, conditions of presentation and perception, themes and subjects, styles in their recurring constants, uses and functions, and finally interpretative, literary or poetic texts.
This work invites us to rediscover the “divine role of sculpture,” as Baudelaire wrote in his Salon of 1859, thanks to the mastery of essential educational tools.
Hazan Guides Collection.
What do we see? How were the different types of sculpture developed? How do we see? How does the sculptor express himself? What is the purpose of sculpture? Where can we contemplate sculpted works? What has been said about them? The objective of this book is not to offer a general history of sculpture, but rather to provide the reader – student, amateur, curious, scholar – with keys to improve his or her perspective and understanding of the works, by accepting the challenge of embracing a millennium of sculpture in the Western cultural sphere.
Art of space, art of time, like music, sculpture is an object of study that is difficult to grasp. One must go around it, multiply the points of view, move around, be capable of envisioning an extremely complex combination of formal qualities, traversing a thousand years of history and styles.
Eight chapters offer as many ways to look at sculpture: through places, techniques, forms, conditions of presentation and perception, themes and subjects, styles in their recurring constants, uses and functions, and finally interpretative, literary or poetic texts.
This work invites us to rediscover the “divine role of sculpture,” as Baudelaire wrote in his Salon of 1859, thanks to the mastery of essential educational tools.
Hazan Guides Collection.