Figuration/Abstraction
Strategies for Public Sculpture in Europe 1945-1968
1st Edition
Published on 6. March 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
356 pages
978-1-138-25221-9 (ISBN)
Description
The notion that the practice of abstraction was confined to Western Europe while a stereotyped form of figuration defined the art of the Eastern bloc continues to dominate art historical accounts of public sculpture of the post-war period. This book offers a number of alternative readings, and demonstrates strategic uses of figuration and abstraction across East and West. Encompassing sites of memory (including war memorials and Holocaust memorials), state, civic and corporate sculpture, as well as temporary and unexecuted projects, the book shows that persuasive advocates of figuration were to be found in the West, while in the East imaginative experiments in abstraction were proposed in the name of Social Realism. Presenting fresh insights into sculptural practice in the period between 1945 and 1968, this book brings together a wide range of authors, some of whom have never before been published in English. Their essays are complemented by extracts from documentary texts, which give a flavour of contemporary debates, and a biographical section includes entries on many sculptors who will be unfamiliar to an English-speaking audience.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-25221-9 (9781138252219)
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Other editions
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Book
09/2004
1st Edition
Routledge
€193.50
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Person
Charlotte Benton
Content
Contents: Introduction, Charlotte Benton; Soviet war memorials in Eastern Europe, 1945-74, Reuben Fowkes; Czechoslovak public sculpture and its context: from 1945 to the 'Realizations' exhibition, 1961, Marie KlimeA!ovA!; Public sculpture in Poland in the 1960s: context and practice, Hanna Kotkowska-Bareja; The metamorphosis of Liberty: the monument to Hungarian liberation, Geza Boros; Modernity and tradition: public sculpture by Gerhard Marcks, 1949-67, Daniel Koep; The advantages of abstract art: monoliths and erratic boulders as monuments and (public) sculptures, Christian Furhmeister; National division as a formal problem in West German public sculpture: memorials to German unity in MA1/4nster and Berlin, Godehard Janzing; Figuration and abstraction in Berlin in the 1960s: two modi in East-West art and art politics, Gabi Dolff-BonekA?mper; Invisible topographies and deafening silences: looking for the Memorial to the Victims of the Deportation in Paris, Shelley Hornstein; Oskar Hansen, Henry Moore and the Auschwitz Memorial debates in Poland, 1958-59, Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius; The return to nature: Finnish monumental sculpture in the 1950s and 1960s, Liisa Lindgren; Continuity: Max Bill's public sculpture and the representation of money, Philip Ursprung; Documents; Biographies; Select bibliography; Index.