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Lorado Taft (1860–1936)
Autor de The history of American sculpture
Obras de Lorado Taft
American Sculpture 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Taft, Lorado Zadoc
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1860-04-29
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1936-10-30
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Elmwood, Illinois, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Educación
- University of Illinois (BA ∙ 1879)
University of Illinois (MA ∙ 1880)
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1880-83) - Ocupaciones
- sculptor
professor
art historian - Relaciones
- Garland, Hamlin (son-in-law)
- Organizaciones
- Art Institute of Chicago
Cliff Dwellers
Chautauqua
National Academy of Design
National Institute of Arts and Letters
American Academy of Arts and Letters (mostrar todos 10)
National Sculpture Society
U.S. Commission of Fine Arts
American Institute of Architects
Eagle's Nest Art Colony - Premios y honores
- National Historic Landmark (1965)
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 7
- Miembros
- 24
- Popularidad
- #522,742
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 5
His intended audiences here were students of The Art Institute of Chicago, under terms of the Scammon benefaction. The rest of the world was a secondary consideration, but obviously not a negligible one, as Taft, like other lecturers in this series, was a personage who commanded attention in that broader world. Indeed this book went into at least three printings. Incidentally, those are entitled the Lectures of 1917, numerous references in the text reveal at least two more years’ worth of observation and thought, not leastwise the comments of Europe and the United States after the World War.
For Taft, the meaning of sculpture was intimately connected with the ideal of the monumental. “Monumental” not in the crude sense of physically big or obtrusive, but in the classical sense of evoking a significant idea or value. This colored everything he wrote, and incidentally generated some lively invective against sculptors whose efforts he considered unworthy (e.g. Epstein, Archipenko, Matisse). Concept and performance were as one to him, and a trivial or unworthy idea could not be redeemed by technical perfection, any more than a good idea could somehow excuse a limping or shoddy material product.… (más)