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Elsen, Albert E., 1927-1995.

Origins of modern sculpture: pioneers and premises [by] Albert E. Elsen.

New York, G. Braziller [1974]

ix, 179 pages illustrations 27 cm

An examination of revolutionary sculptors and pieces of sculpture that emerged between 1890 and 1918.

Sculpture, Modern -- 19th century.

Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century.

Sculpture, Modern.

An enlarged and altered version of the introduction to the author's Pioneers of modern sculpture originally published in 1973.

Includes bibliographical references.

Sculpture as it was -- The crisis of sculpture before World War I -- The subject of modernity -- The nude -- The new sexual candor -- La vie moderne -- Alternatives to the monument: some exemplary figures in modern sculpture -- Changes in what gives sculpture meaning: the modern sculptural metaphor -- Self-portraits of the sculptors -- The portrait -- The evocative head -- Objects as subjects -- Abstraction -- The revolution in form -- Questions that lead to the premises of early modern sculpture -- The partial figure -- Expression -- Proportions -- New skin for sculpture -- Invention and the invasion of sculpture by space -- Color and sculpture -- The courtship of light -- The passing of the pedestal: bringing sculpture down to earth -- Ways and means: the fickleness of fidelity to the medium -- The revolution in relief sculpture -- The new history of relief -- Post scriptum --

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