Mary Acton

Learning to Look at Sculpture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Learning to Look at Sculpture introduces students to different types of sculpture from all periods of Western art, from Classical times to the present day. It considers the relationship between painting and sculpture, but also the interesting relationships between sculpture, other arts and its surrounding context, including architecture, design, and issues around commemoration and public space. In her highly accessible style, Acton demonstrates to those new to the field that learning to look at sculpture in a more focussed and analytical way can lead to greater understanding of sculpture of the past and the present, and of the cultures from which it comes. This book is intended as a companion volume to Learning to look at Paintings and Learning to look at Modern Art by the same author.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780415577373
• ISBN-10: 0415577373
• Artikelnr.: 36197346

Autorenporträt

Mary Acton was Course Director of the Undergraduate Diploma and Advanced Diploma in the History of Art at Continuing Education, University of Oxford. She continues to teach at the University of Oxford and works as a freelance lecturer. She is the author of the bestselling Learning to Look at Paintings (1997, 2009) and Learning to Look at Modern Art (2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Influence of the Classical Tradition and the
Development of Sculptural Types 2. The Free Standing Figure and its Legacy
3. Group Sculpture - The Interaction between Forms 4. Relief Sculpture.
Communication and Narrative Power 5. The Bust. Sculpture and the Portrait
6. Sculpture, Memory and Commemoration 7. Sculpture and its Setting 8.
Sculpture and Drawing 9. Epilogue and Conclusion. Sculpture and Design: The
idea of Three Dimensional Design as Sculpture