Hibbard H. Masterpieces of Western Sculpture from Medieval to Modern / Шедевры западной скульптуры: от Средневековья до современности.

An essay on sculpture should probably begin with the first written account of the subject, from the Book of Genesis: Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life... so God formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of heaven. Quite probably the firs sculptures made by our ancestors were molded and modeled on the our ancestors were molded and moldeled on the human form, as in the account in Genesis - but unlike Gods works, these have disappeared without a trace. Most sculpture, in fact, has concentrated on the human from and as a work in space, sculpture acutely arouses problems of reality. How real is real and where do we draw the line between life and art. Figural statuary has tread a narrow path, gradually assimilating life-like qualities starting with the stiff and frontal statues of ancient Egypt and developing into the nearly breathing marbles of Phidias and Praxiteles. Sculpture, therefore, has a magical quality which is a tactile and spatial experience, in which form light and color intertwine in endless variations. The purpose of this book is to present in color a number of typical and attractive examples of sculpture produced in the last thousand years.

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