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Figuration/Abstraction - Strategies for Public Sculpture in Europe 1945-1968 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Figuration/Abstraction - Strategies for Public Sculpture in Europe 1945-1968 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture
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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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