| William Tucker
Early Modern Sculpture Oxford University Press 1974 |
Monograph
Hardcover in dustjacket, 174 p
17 × 25 cm
Texts in English
William Tucker’s Early Modern Sculpture, first published as a series of articles in 1970 is one of the most important treatments of early 20th-century sculpture to appear in recent years in English. Tucker is himself a sculptor, and one of the most interesting of the many to have achieved prominence in England during the 1960s. His work, not well known in America; was of outstanding interest but attracted relatively little attention at the time of 1972’s Venice Biennale. As a critic, Tucker, the artist, asks questions of the past in order to clarify his own identity, his relationship to the past; to establish a view of the modern tradition that will support the concerns of artists in the 1960s. His book divides into discrete units, corresponding to the specific artists he treats, and can be dealt with in the same order : Rodin, Degas, Matisse, Brancusi, Picasso, Gonzalez.
This second-hand publication bears small traces of its previous life but is still in very good condition.
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