Presence
the art of portrait sculpture
$31.17
- Hardcover
96 pages
- Release Date
1 January 1970
Summary
From the monuments of the ancient world to the modern waxwork museum, the sculpted portrait represents and makes present the living and the dead. Today, the art form remains the victim of its 19th-century heyday: the self-confidence, if not self-regard, of an age that populated our city streets and squares with countless monuments to statesmen, soldiers, industrialists and philanthropists whose deeds have long since slipped from popular memory, has rendered the very act of such monumental com…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781851496853 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1851496858 |
| Author: | Alexander Sturgis |
| Publisher: | ACC Art Books |
| Imprint: | ACC Art Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1970 |
| Weight: | 375g |
| Dimensions: | 222mm x 152mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
Presence- beautiful, dark, even grotesque at times, is an intriguing investigation of the uncanny presence in portrait sculptures- Sculpture Magazine
‘An excellent book’ Laura Cumming, The Guardian
About The Author
Alexander Sturgis
Alexander Sturgis is Director of the Holburne Museum in Bath and was previously a curator at the National Gallery in London. Portraiture has been one of his abiding interests and the subject of a number of books he has written and exhibitions he has curated including ‘Faces’ (National Gallery, 1998) and ‘Rebels and Martyrs: the Image of the Artist in the Nineteenth Century’ (NG 2005). He lives outside Bath with his wife Anna and their three children.
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