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1 online resource (286 pages) |
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Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture |
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Subject/object--new studies in sculpture.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture; Acknowledgements; Sculpture and the museum, from starry skies to jungle haze; Part I Museums and the sculptor's legacy; 1 The Gipsoteca of Possagno: from artist's studio to museum; 2 The Pantheon, the University and the artist's bequest: the Flaxman Gallery at University College London; 3 Rodin: the construction of an image; 4 Adopting Moore and modernity in Toronto: controversy, reputation and intervention on display |
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Part II Museum display and changing attitudes to the critical status of sculpture in museums5 Italian Renaissance sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: the early years; 6 The elephant in the room: George Grey Barnard's Struggle of the Two Natures in Man at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; 7 Sculptures as museum models: Malvina Hoffman's Races of Mankind display at the Field Museum, Chicago; 8 Out of time and place: the recent history and curious double life of the Sultanganj Buddha; Part III Designing display settings and the challenge of new sculpture |
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9 'The finest sculpture gallery in the world!': the rise and fall -- and rise again -- of the Duveen Sculpture Galleries at Tate Britain10 A grey universe: Tate Modern's Turbine Hall and The Unilever Series; 11 Object to project: artists' interventions in museum collections; Select bibliography; Index |
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"Sculpture and the Museum is the first in-depth examination of the varying roles and meanings assigned to sculpture in museums and galleries during the modern period, from neo-classical to contemporary art practice. It considers a rich array of curatorial strategies and settings in order to examine the many reasons why sculpture has enjoyed a position of such considerable importance - and complexity - within the institutional framework of the museum and how changes to the museum have altered, in turn, the ways that we perceive the sculpture within it. In particular, the contributors consider the complex issue of how best to display sculpture across different periods and according to varying curatorial philosophies. Sculptors discussed include Canova, Rodin, Henry Moore, Flaxman and contemporary artists such as Rebecca Horn, Rachel Whiteread, Mark Dion and Olafur Eliasson, with a variety of museums in America, Canada and Europe presented as case studies. Underlying all of these discussions is a concern to chart the critical importance of the acquisition, placement and display of sculpture in museums and to explore the importance of sculptures as a forum for the expression of programmatic statements of power, prestige and the museum's own sense of itself in relation to its audiences and its broader institutional aspirations."--Provided by publisher |
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Print version record |
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Sculpture galleries.
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Sculpture, Modern -- Exhibitions
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Sculpture, Modern -- Exhibitions -- Case studies
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Sculpture galleries
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Sculpture, Modern
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Sculpture, Modern -- Exhibitions
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Case studies
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Exhibition catalogs
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Curtis, Dr. Penelope
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Le Feuvre, Ms. Lisa
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| ISBN |
9781351549554 |
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1351549553 |
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