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One of the greatest living sculptors and a well-known art critic examine the central role of sculpture in the development of human culture from prehistory to the present day.

Note biographique

Sir Antony Gormley is a distinguished British artist and sculptor perhaps best known for his huge Angel of the North in Gateshead. He won the Turner Prize in 1994 and has been a Royal Academician since 2003. Gormley is one of the most critically respected artists working internationally, with works that have universal resonance. Martin Gayford is art critic for The Spectator and the author of acclaimed books on Van Gogh, Constable and Michelangelo. He is the author of Man with a Blue Scarf, Rendez-vous with Art and A Bigger Message. He has collaborated with David Hockney on A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney and A History of Pictures, and has co-written a volume of travels and conversations with Philippe de Montebello: Rendez-vous with Art.

Table des matières

Preface . 1. Bodies in Space . 2. Off the Wall . 3. Mounds, Fields & Standing Stones . 4. Trees & Life . 5. Light & Darkness . 6. Clay & Modelling . 7. Voids . 8. The Body & the Block . 9. The Age of Bronze . 10. Bodies & Buildings . 11. The Colossus & the Slave . 12. Time & Mortality . 13. Drapery & Anatomy . 14. Actions & Events . 15. Fear & Fetishism . 16. Collecting & Selecting . 17. Industry & Heavy Metal . 18. Shaping a Changing World

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