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The Art of Portrait Sculpture
Langbeschreibung
This stimulating book, published to coincide with an exhibition at the Holburne Museum, explores the peculiar power of the sculpted portrait and where that power comes from.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction A sense of life Likeness and abstraction Ideal and real The Greek and Roman portrait Making faces Colour and its absence Death masks, life cast Death and the portrait Reproducing the portrait Context and scale Sculpture and the portrait
Alexander Sturgis is Director of the Holburne Museum in Bath and was previously a curator at the National Gallery in London. Portraiture has been one of his abiding interests and the subject of a number of books he has written and exhibitions he has curated including 'Faces' (National Gallery, 1998) and 'Rebels and Martyrs: the Image of the Artist in the Nineteenth Century' (NG 2005). He lives outside Bath with his wife Anna and their three children.
ISBN-13:
9781851496853
Veröffentl:
2012
Seiten:
96
Autor:
Alexander Sturgis
Gewicht:
378 g
Format:
221x149x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch