1st Edition
Figuration/Abstraction Strategies for Public Sculpture in Europe 1945-1968
Edited By Charlotte Benton
Copyright 2004
356 Pages
by
Routledge
356 Pages
by
Routledge
The notion that the practice of abstraction was confined to Western Europe while a stereotyped form of figuration defined the art of the Eastern bloc continues to dominate art historical accounts of public sculpture of the post-war period. This book offers a number of alternative readings, and demonstrates strategic uses of figuration and abstraction across East and West. Encompassing sites of... Read more
Contents: Introduction, Charlotte Benton; Soviet war memorials in Eastern Europe, 1945-74, Reuben Fowkes; Czechoslovak public sculpture and its context: from 1945 to the 'Realizations' exhibition, 1961, Marie KlimeÅ¡ová; Public sculpture in Poland in the 1960s: context and practice, Hanna Kotkowska-Bareja; The metamorphosis of Liberty: the monument to Hungarian liberation, Géza Boros; Modernity and tradition: public sculpture by Gerhard Marcks, 1949-67, Daniel Koep; The advantages of abstract art: monoliths and erratic boulders as monuments and (public) sculptures, Christian Furhmeister; National division as a formal problem in West German public sculpture: memorials to German unity in Münster and Berlin, Godehard Janzing; Figuration and abstraction in Berlin in the 1960s: two modi in East-West art and art politics, Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper; Invisible topographies and deafening silences: looking for the Memorial to the Victims of the Deportation in Paris, Shelley Hornstein; Oskar Hansen, Henry Moore and the Auschwitz Memorial debates in Poland, 1958-59, Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius; The return to nature: Finnish monumental sculpture in the 1950s and 1960s, Liisa Lindgren; Continuity: Max Bill's public sculpture and the representation of money, Philip Ursprung; Documents; Biographies; Select bibliography; Index.
Biography
Charlotte Benton
