"Modern sculpture" refers to artistic creations that are made in recent times and usually reflect contemporary ideas and styles. This can include three-dimensional artworks using various materials, such as stone, metal, or even found objects, that explore new forms, concepts, or ways of expressing emotions or messages in a unique and innovative manner.
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The real and imagined role
of modern sculpture in the post-war middle - class British home is examined in this exhibition.
Unearthed from the depths of their studios, the work inserts itself with remarkable freshness into the international debate on the form of
modern sculpture in the 1950s and 60s.
In Beyond
Modern Sculpture from 1968 Burnham builds cybernetic art into an extensive theory that centers on art's drive to imitate and ultimately reproduce life.
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When Duchamp sent a commonplace or despicable object to an art exhibition (the hat rack or the urinal), it was an anti-art gesture
at modern sculpture, but the additional twist for his fan - club was that the object really is beautiful in itself.
The elegant proportions with unexpected firmness and structure and the artisanal quality of materials makes the garments seem
like modern sculptures.
Taken together, the oeuvres of these two pioneers of European and American sculpture cover the period of over one hundred years in
which modern sculpture developed.
«There are surprisingly few general books
on modern sculpture, so this one fills a big gap, and it fills it well... Coherent and intelligent...» — Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Burlington Magazine
Organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in co-operation with the Fondation Beyeler Riehen / Basel, the show examines the connections between these two pioneers of sculpture through nearly fifty works, offering a unique overview of the period of over one hundred years in which
modern sculpture developed.
Visitors to the exhibition can also study the development and experimentalism of
modern sculpture through seminal works by George Segal, Kathe Kollwitz, Charles Umlauf, Malvina Hoffman, Alberto Giacometti, Jacob Epstein, William Zorach and Henry Moore.
Jack Burnham, «
Beyond Modern Sculpture: The Effects Of Science And Technology On The Sculpture Of This Century» (George Braziller, 1968); 402 pages, 135 illustrations in black and white.
If Duchamp could claim a urinal
as modern sculpture, why question Thiebaud's paintings of gumball machines and cream pies» (Tsujimoto, 36)?
Late last month, the city's Department of Design and Construction reinstalled an ensemble of
abstract modern sculpture titled «Shadows and Flags» in the very spot where its creator, the late Louise Nevelson, had placed it when the park opened 32 years ago.
Featuring an ancient Mayan temple honoring the Mayan Goddess Ixchel, it also boasts a lighthouse and dozens of
modern sculptures around the property.
Then to Remarkable Rocks, via the spectacular coastline of Cape du Couedic, where the forces of nature have
carved modern sculptures out of the granite.
Before that, Minimalism made
modern sculpture impossible — while reviving its geometry, its refusal of a pedestal, and even something of its grandeur.
Bhabha looks back to the biomorphic abstraction of Hesse or Louise Bourgeois, while avoiding the breasts and curves that once
obliged modern sculpture to confront a woman's experience.
Lord McAlpine was helped by Waddington to form a
major modern sculpture collection that he gifted to the Tate in 1971.
Rediscoveries utilizes Auguste Rodin's quote «I invent nothing; I rediscover» as the springboard to delve into the past 125 years of sculpture, to analyze four creative tactics used to
fashion modern sculpture.
Tanavoli is widely recognized as the father of Iran's
modern sculpture movement and a founder of the Saqqakhaneh movement, a form of modern Iranian art that borrows from local folklore and religious iconography.
Although modern sculpture and architecture are reckoned to have emerged at the end of the 19th century, the beginnings of modern painting can be located earlier.
John Bell combines the gestural elements of abstract expressionism with the linear qualities of geometric abstraction, the physicality of large
scale modern sculpture, the ideas about space addressed in modern architecture, kinetics, and pop art images.
In 2015 he was awarded an AHRC Network Grant for his project
Japanese Modern Sculpture, a collaborative research network with the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, and Musashino Arts University, Tokyo, which resulted in an exhibition and a publication.
The six other artists on view were: engraver Stanley Anderson; pioneer of
modern sculpture Jacob Epstein; war artist and surrealist painter Paul Nash; student of Matisse and painter Matthew Smith; and distinguished painters Stanley Spencer and Christopher Wood.
Channel 4 News Culture Editor Matthew Cain said the move north is a chance for the prize to spread its wings — much like Britain's most
famous modern sculpture, Antony Gormley's Angel of the North, which looms large nearby over the A1.