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Lucie-Smith, Edward.

Sculpture since 1945 / Edward Lucie-Smith.

New York : Universe, 1987.

160 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Poet, critic, and broadcaster, Lucie-Smith has written a history of sculpture since 1945, with a concise summary of prewar influences. He has combined all the important artists of the peirod into one continuous flow of events. The succinct discourse begins with early Modernists, and continues with the Revolution of the 1960s though Kinetic, Minimal, Conceptual, and Land Art, to the Pluralism of the 1970s and the return to Figurative Imagery. There are 32 color photographs and 195 black-and-whites

Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-156) and index.

Also issued online.

Sculpture in the late twentieth century -- The early Modernists -- After the war: new and old traditions -- Post-war sculpture in Italy -- Post-war sculpture in Britain and France -- The American tradition -- David Smith and the new American sculpture -- The revolution of the 1960s -- Pop, New Realism and Super Realism -- Kinetic art -- Minimal art -- Conceptual art and land art -- Italian 'arte povera' and British salvage art -- The pluralism of the 1970s -- Ethnography, archaeology and craft -- The return to figurative imagery.

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