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Cargando... A Concise History of Modern Sculpture (edición 1966)por Herbert Read (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I found this to be a really nice overview. I am a fan of modern sculpture and feel that I now have a deeper understanding of the art. It was very helpful to see how all of these artists interrelated and influenced one another. What I didn't like was more about the construction of the book. At first, i found that the constant flipping back and forth to refer to photos from earlier pages to be cumbersome, but soon realized that this is the reality of having to discuss a broad range of pieces. I came to peace with it. My frustration reemerged in the latter third of the book because now I was reading pages and pages on one artist (Moore, Hepworth) with photos from other artists who the author never even refers to! Not the end of the world, I still gave the book 4 stars. I highly recommend it. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Historia comentada de la escultura del siglo XX. Volumen pensado como acompañamiento del libro "Breve historia de la pintura moderna" del mismo autor. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Read has an annoying habit of privileging artists that he knew well personally (Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Eduardo Paolozzi) in his narrative. Moore is a great artist and it is not as if he needs any special pleading, but Read provides it anyway. It all comes across as unpleasantly clubby in the worst British sense. (From an avowed anarchist and the son of a farmer, no less!)
The illustrations are another matter. They are fascinating, but a vast number of the sculptors and pieces, especially in the second half of the volume, are referred to nowhere in the text, or at most in a list. Whoever put this edition together allowed the textual and visual sides of the book to lead separate lives. ( )