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Expanding Concepts of Sculpture

Expanding Concepts of Sculpture

Paul Wood, Expanding Concepts of Sculpture  For most of the twentieth century, sculpture seemed to be the poor relation of modernist art compared to painting. After the crisis of modernism in the late 1960s this changed, as painting lost its position at the centre of contemporary art to be replaced by a multiplicity of three-dimensional practices. Paul Wood starts the day with a brief overview of some aspects of the modernist theory of sculpture leading up to the challenge to it in the sixties. Further ReadingAlex Potts, The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist, Yale, 2000.Rosalind Krauss, Passages in Modern Sculpture, Viking, 1977 (reprint by MIT 1990).