viii, 538 pages illustrations, maps (on lining papers) 27 cm
Type:
Books
History
Date:
1968
[1968]
Contents:
Introduction: The Art of Sculpture -- Primative sculpture : from the cave men to our stone age contemporaries -- Egypt : the eternal in sculpture -- The Mesopotamian pageant : Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria -- The Animal art of the Eurasian Steppes -- The Greeks : Archaism, Classicism, Realism -- Etruscan and Roman sculpture -- The Opulent sculpture of Persia; the legacy to Islam -- China : the worl'ds supreme scupltural achievement -- Korea and Japan : the spread of buddhist sculpture -- India : the maturing of the opulent oriental style -- The Flowering in southeast Asia : Cambodia, Siam, Java -- Early Christian scuplture : Coptic, Byzantine -- European Christian sculpture -- The Renaissance : from the Pisanos to Michelangelo -- The South seas and Negor Africa : "Exotic" sculpture -- Ameriindian sculpture and the Mexican-Mayan masters -- Western sculpture from the Baroque to Rodin -- Modern sculpture : formalism, expressionsim, abstraction
Summary:
A history of all the major phases of the art of sculpture from weapons, fetishes of the cave men to products of our latest generation of carvers, modelers, and welders of metal.
