ISBN: 9781903470305 - display and displacement: sculpture and the pedestal from renaissance to post-modern (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 2006 Paul Holberton Publishing hardcoveer edition. Ex library copy with stamps and labels else good condition. Contents: Introduction by Alexandra Gerstein; Chapter 1: Alessandro Vittoria's Socles: Shaping and Naming by Victoria Avery; Chapter 2: Objet d'attention. L'interet pour le support en France a l'epoque moderne by Etienne Jollet; Chapter 3: Playing with Plinth's in Eighteenth-century Sculpture by Malcolm Baker; Chapter 4: The Poetics of Sculpture: Pedestal, Verse and Inscription by Alison Yarrington; Chapter 5: 'Is the Pedestal to be the Capital part of it?': Pictorialism and the Pedestal of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square by Philip Ward-Jackson; Chapter 6: Fallen Women: The Gender of Horizontality and the Abandonment of the Pedestal by Giacometti and Epstein by David J. Getsy; Chapter 7: The Fourth Plinth or the Vicissitudes of Public Sculpture by Sue Malvern; Chapter 8: Homage, Double Act and Decoy: Three Contemporary Considerations of the Art Gallery Plinth by Jon Wood. …

Hardcover. Condizione: New. The relationship between sculpture and pedestal is at the intersection of a number of art-historical disciplines, ranging from the history of design, architecture, and urbanism to museum studies, yet because of its supporting role it has remained a largely neglected and unstudied field. This book includes essays ranging from sixteenth-century Venice to twenty-first-century London that provide a fascinating variety of approaches to the issue.…