Imagining Sculpture
by
Stanley Abe
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
3777437581
ISBN-13
9783777437583
Publisher
Hirmer Verlag
Imprint
Hirmer Verlag
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 26th, 2023
Print length
384 Pages
Weight
1,316 grams
Dimensions
18.20 x 24.00 x 4.10 cms
Product Classification:
Theory of artSculpture
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A new critical approach to understanding sculpture across cultures.
Imagining Sculpture is the story of the absence of a powerful European idea: Sculpture. In China statues, stele, and other figural objects were made for millennia but were not categorized as Sculpture. Imagining Sculpture explains how they were seen in China as objects beyond the category of Sculpture. Stanley Abe has written a series of short historical and fictional vignettes about travelers, scholars, officials, collectors, and antiquarians who encounter statues, figures, and effigies in China and the West from the fourteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. Imagining Sculpture is visual, cinematic, and sumptuous, featuring rare photographs, paintings, sketches, letters, and ephemera. With little text, images propel the narrative.
Imagining Sculpture is the story of the absence of a powerful European idea: Sculpture. In China statues, stele, and other figural objects were made for millennia but were not categorized as Sculpture. Imagining Sculpture explains how they were seen in China as objects beyond the category of Sculpture. Stanley Abe has written a series of short historical and fictional vignettes about travelers, scholars, officials, collectors, and antiquarians who encounter statues, figures, and effigies in China and the West from the fourteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. Imagining Sculpture is visual, cinematic, and sumptuous, featuring rare photographs, paintings, sketches, letters, and ephemera. With little text, images propel the narrative.
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