Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now

ISBN-13: 9780500022672 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 392 str.

Martin Gayford

Opis

Leading sculptor Antony Gormley, informed and energised by a lifetime of making, and art critic and historian Martin Gayford, explore the central role of sculpture in the development of human culture from prehistory to the present day One of the greatest living sculptors and a well-known art critic examine the central role of sculpture in the development of human culture from prehistory to the present day.

Recenzje

'Very informative' - V&A Magazine

Spis treści

Preface - 1. Bodies in Space - 2. Off the Wall - 3. Mounds, Fields & Standing Stones - 4. Trees & Life - 5. Light & Darkness - 6. Clay & Modelling - 7. Voids - 8. The Body & the Block - 9. The Age of Bronze - 10. Bodies & Buildings - 11. The Colossus & the Slave - 12. Time & Mortality - 13. Drapery & Anatomy - 14. Actions & Events - 15. Fear & Fetishism - 16. Collecting & Selecting - 17. Industry & Heavy Metal - 18. Shaping a Changing World

O autorze

Sir Antony Gormley is a distinguished British artist and sculptor perhaps best known for his huge Angel of the North in Gateshead. He won the Turner Prize in 1994 and has been a Royal Academician since 2003. Gormley is one of the most critically respected artists working internationally, with works that have universal resonance. Martin Gayford is art critic for The Spectator and the author of acclaimed books on Van Gogh, Constable and Michelangelo. He is the author of many books, including Man with a Blue Scarf, Rendez-vous with Art, (with Philippe de Montebello), A Bigger Message, Modernists & Mavericks, A History of Pictures (with David Hockney), The Pursuit of Art and Spring Cannot be Cancelled, all published by Thames & Hudson.