Sentences with phrase «history of sculpture»

Now the freestanding sculptures don't face a photographer, but the dubious history of sculpture itself — and, possibly, a skeptical spectator.

«Ceramics is a medium that, with every passing decade, becomes easier for the untrained to manipulate — more rampant, versatile, and demystified, and perhaps more worthy of a clarified position within the wider history of sculpture,» says the British ceramist Aaron Angell, who set up a pottery studio in London in 2014 to teach fellow artists.

Geological time, as well as archaeological time is invoked, while histories of sculpture are rehearsed in the appropriation and «repurposing» of copies from the antique.

The project, titled «Now Be Here,» was inspired by the gallery's current exhibition, «Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 - 2016,» curated by gallery partner Paul Schimmel and feminist scholar Jenni Sorkin, and examining the often overlooked role of women in the 20th century history of sculpture.

HISTORY OF SCULPTURE See: Sculpture History.

SculptureCenter, in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, is thrilled to continue the artist - led lecture series Subjective Histories of Sculpture.

He is currently working on a book project entitled The New Monuments and the End of Man: American Sculpture Between War and Peace, 1945 - 1975, which will consider the intertwined histories of sculpture and nuclear war in postwar U.S. culture.

In this exhibition, Thomas Houseago presents a body of work that not only testifies to his continuing interest in the history of sculpture, but also hints at the emergence of a new aesthetic sensibility within his oeuvre.

So as an owner of a Henry Moore, you could find out more about the history of the sculpture that you own.

As well as exploring the history of sculpture as a medium and the industrial and post-industrial materials that it can possibly encompass, Channer questions the role that clothing plays, in terms of both production and consumption, in a western late - capitalist society.

We look forward to showing this work shortly in the context of the history of sculpture from 1900 to now as part of The Sculpture Show, the latest in a series of major exhibitions drawn almost entirely from the gallery's own collection.

Rachel Harrison's oeuvre challenges conventional narratives of the history of sculpture and how we experience objects as individuals in space and time.

Perhaps her most spare and painterly bear the title A History of Sculpture.

In the 1970s he founded TRACKS, A Journal of Artists» Writings and taught the history of sculpture at Cooper Union in New York.

Baxter frequently picks up materials she's never used before, searching for novel ways to engage the histories of sculpture, jewelry, weaponry or drapery.

Talks abound, from B. Wurtz on the history of sculpture to Winkleman Gallery's panel on African - Americans in Soviet culture.

Beyond bronze, he roamed through the history of sculpture and its materials, carving in stone, working in ceramics, moving between abstraction and figuration and occasionally even using found objects.

But it's also about the history of sculpture.

To explore the story of these radical shifts and their legacy, «Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 - 2016» unfolds as a thematic historical survey that is international in scope, making women artists central to the history of sculpture by tracing the legacy of studio - based organic abstraction.

What it then also says to me, if you get on that wavelength of why is it about the history of sculpture, I think what's really interesting about it is that he takes this kind of non ‑ objective box of Donald Judd stacked on the wall as his model prototype, and he gives it meaning.

Anyone with a passing familiarity with postwar American art would have been able to identify them across a football field as the work of John Chamberlain, who has almost singlehandedly given automotive metal a place in the history of sculpture.

What sets her work apart, and significantly expands upon the history of sculpture, is her ability — with rubber tires — to create surfaces on objects that resemble skins, feathers, scales, spikes, armor, or attire.

Step into the next gallery, where Cubism holds sway, and you'll find works by Picasso from 1912 — 15 that altered the history of sculpture.

You leave the show entertained and exhilarated and wondering why you hadn't realized how Picasso, time and again, changed the course of the history of sculpture.

Deeply informed by the history of sculpture — from mystical prehistoric sources up to the present moment — her ambiguous, figurative forms disrupt entrenched notions of the classical ideal.

Breaking new grounds, his sculptures push boundaries and challenge our expectations by creating a unique aesthetic that unveils an unprecedented path in the history of sculpture.

Using the language and history of sculpture, installation, and conceptual art practices, Tannaz Farsi's work highlights and re-presents objects and images that contextually start from a collective experience found in the current news or within the milieu of our cultural archive.

John Chamberlain, who almost singlehandedly gave automotive metal a place in the history of sculpture, smashing and twisting together a poetic fusion of Abstract Expressionism and Pop from fenders, fins, bumpers and hoods, died on Wednesday in Manhattan.

The first retrospective of Durham's work to take place in North America, At the Center of the World reestablishes the importance of his career, projecting it into present - day discussions about the interplay between the local and the global, between art and activism, and reminding us of the history of sculpture as a medium that is entwined with everyday life.

John Chamberlain, who almost single - handedly gave automotive metal a place in the history of sculpture, smashing and twisting together a poetic fusion of abstract expressionism and pop from fenders, fins, bumpers and hoods, died Wednesday in New York.

Conceived in the late 1940s, Louise Bourgeois» Breasted Woman belongs to a group of sculptures known as her Personages — evocative works now widely regarded by scholars as among the most outstanding contributions to the history of sculpture in the 20th century.

Durham's work offers a vital perspective on present - day discussions about the relationship between the local and the global; the interface between art and activism; and the history of sculpture as a medium tactically and conceptually entwined with everyday life.

EVOLUTION OF SCULPTURE For details of the origins and development of the plastic arts see: History of Sculpture.

When I started going back into the history of sculpture and looking at artists like Barbara Hepworth and Rodin, I realized you could just walk around a sculpture; it activates itself.

Channer's investigation of the history of sculpture as a medium and of figuration as a starting point for sculptural ideas often emerge from hermetic and elusive origins — iconic vintage designs by Christian Dior or drawings by Yves Saint Laurent — and she will often encode herself physically in some way within her work in a way that is not immediately legible, implicating herself within the work's conceptual territory.

By juxtaposing their works, A New American Sculpture reveals the confluences of sources — from archaism and European avant - garde art to vernacular traditions and American popular culture — that informed these artists» novel contributions to the history of sculpture.

Rare catalogues from influential and groundbreaking exhibitions from the 1960s and 1970s sit alongside artists» books and early publications on the history of sculpture.

They found work by Richard Deacon jostling on shelves with Mary Martin and Gertrude Hermes, Jean Arp with Neville Boden, and 19th - century portrait busts, all of which shed an intriguing light on the history of sculpture in Britain, and therefore on their own artistic past.

Bhabha describes her sculptures as «characters» that though their materiality, rough construction, and references to the history of sculpture become rich screens for projections of psychological depth.

Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s presents the history of the sculptures made at Lippincott, Inc., in North Haven, CT..

Her research is focused on the histories of sculpture and landscape, especially 1960s and 1970s land art.

Analyzing the history of sculpture from an unusual angle, Margaret Sheffield tackles the character and function of «edge» in sculptural line, from classical Greece to the present.

Can & Sevda Elgiz: The recently acquired Erwin Wurm is definitely a highlight, the performance sculpture pieces were unforgettable in the history of sculpture and art.

Whilst Black denies the gendered nature of her sculptures, it is difficult not to interpret her work as overtly «feminine» in a traditional sense — materials associated with house - keeping, beauty and nursing recur within her work, along with formal motifs like bows, canopies and nests, in pretty fondant colours — suggesting an oppositional stance to the traditionally masculine, monumental and heroic idea of the history of sculpture.

See also: History of Sculpture (200,000 BCE - present).

A Reader in Art History and Theory at UCL Slade School of Fine Art, her internationally recognised research is focused on the histories of sculpture and landscape, especially 1960s land art.

In Fantastic Reality, Mignon Nixon not only illuminates the work of this revolutionary artist but rewrites the history of sculpture in the post-war years.