Sculpture

Looks at the history of sculpture from prehistoric times to the present, and discusses major artists, schools, and movements

Preface

7

(1)

The Beginnings in the Ice Age

8

(8)

Prehistory

8

(1)

Lions, horses, mammoths

9

(2)

The first portraits

11

(4)

Venus with the horn

15

(1)

Sculpture on the Nile

16

(8)

Standing-striding figure

17

(1)

The sitting figure...

18

(3)

Crouching cube

21

(1)

Portraiture

22

(2)

Classical Antiquity

24

(18)

Greece

24

(2)

Archaic, classic, Hellenistic

26

(3)

Phidias and the Parthenon Temple

29

(2)

Proportion doctrine of Polykleitos

31

(3)

Predilection for Greek sculpture

34

(2)

Political meaning of the statue

36

(2)

Original source of Roman portraits

38

(4)

Early Christian Sculpture

42

(10)

Christian programmatic images

45

(2)

The first crucifixes

47

(5)

The Equestrian Statue

48

(4)

The Middle Ages

52

(14)

Romanesque crucifixes

52

(2)

Images of Mary

54

(3)

Expressiveness of the capital

57

(2)

The Gothic is called barbaric

59

(3)

Separation from architecture

62

(4)

Late Gothic and Reformation

66

(8)

Mary the beautiful, Mary the protector

66

(3)

A new complexity

69

(3)

The expressive style of the Reformation

72

(2)

The Renaissance

74

(10)

The early Renaissance

74

(1)

The freestanding statue

75

(1)

The freestanding group

76

(2)

Monuments

78

(2)

The high Renaissance

80

(4)

Baroque

84

(10)

Transitional period: Mannerism

84

(3)

The Baroque

87

(7)

Classicism and Realism

94

(8)

Rococo

94

(6)

Departure from the Antique

100

(2)

The Age of the Monument

102

(12)

The national monument

102

(3)

``Heroes of the intellect'' and costume wars

105

(1)

The cult of the monument

106

(3)

The demise of the traditional monument

109

(5)

The Classic Modern

114

(26)

The ugly is beautiful

114

(5)

Painter/sculptor

119

(2)

The Expressionists

121

(5)

The unification of art and life

126

(7)

Surrealism

133

(7)

German Sculpture in the Third Reich

136

(4)

After 1945

140

(30)

Existentialism

141

(2)

Organic volume

143

(5)

Moving in space

148

(4)

Minimal art

152

(5)

Back to sculpture?

157

(13)

Art in Public Spaces

160

(10)

Glossary

170

(1)

Brief overview of the history of sculpture

171

(4)

Museums and sculpture gardens

175

(2)

Bibliography

177

(9)

Subject index

186

(1)

Index of names

187

(5)

Picture credits

192

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