Jun 142013
Sculpture Today
Contemporary sculpture is a wide-ranging and fascinating subject, surprisingly unrepresented in the current marketplace. This beautifully illustrated book is a comprehensive overview of developments in the world of sculpture during the past fifty years, and follows the successful, highly illustrated formula of Phaidon’s best-selling volumes “Art Today” and “Architecture Today”. In the great sea-change marking the end of Modernism – a general set of views and assumptions about art which reigned d
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Beautiful images, great selection of artists, but the text is lacking,
This is the best collection of photographs of recent important works in sculpture. The book is heavy, solid and looks excellent.
The artists are very well selected. Some familiar names, and some obscure names. Frankly some will disappear and some will become famous. This is the sculpture of today without the filtering of time.
But the text! Very hard to read and poorly edited as well. One of those times when looking artsy hurts with the actual ability to read the material.
Anyway, I recommend the book 100% for those who are interested in the images, and a little less than that for those who want to read about contemporary sculpture.
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|A great disappointment,
This large and bulky book is a great disappointment. It is well illustrated but the text is nearly impossible to read; print size is small,lines long and it appears to have been composed on an old-fashioned typewriter without proportional spacing which might lead one to wonder when it was written. To further add to the difficuly of reading,it is printed using gray ink. The artists included appears to be totally random; many are obscure and little known whereas others who are internationally known are omitted. Geographical coverage seems to be the United States and Europe; the rest of the world is ignored. The book could have been greatly improved with better editing.
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|Every art student should owe this book,
This book is amazing reference to many great artists, its well organized and easy to look for your artist. I highly recommend this book, its a must have
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