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Imagining Sculpture: A Short Conjectural History

Imagining Sculpture: A Short Conjectural History

Abe, Stanley

Hardcover

Art Criticism & TheoryArt HistorySculpture & Installation

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ISBN10: 3777437581
ISBN13: 9783777437583
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag
Published: Feb 19 2023
Pages: 384
Weight: 2.90
Height: 2.30 Width: 7.50 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
A new critical approach to understanding sculpture across cultures.

Imagining Sculpture is the story of the absence of a powerful European idea: Sculpture. In China statues, stele, and other figural objects were made for millennia but were not categorized as Sculpture. Imagining Sculpture explains how they were seen in China as objects beyond the category of Sculpture. Stanley Abe has written a series of short historical and fictional vignettes about travelers, scholars, officials, collectors, and antiquarians who encounter statues, figures, and effigies in China and the West from the fourteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. Imagining Sculpture is visual, cinematic, and sumptuous, featuring rare photographs, paintings, sketches, letters, and ephemera. With little text, images propel the narrative.

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