Abstract Sculptures
Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial
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Berlin Monuments
Brussels World Fair
Carola Giedion Welcker
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Christian Fuhrmeister
Cold War cultural history
comparative public sculpture practices
Czechoslovak Artists
Daniel Koep
Eduardo Chillida
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Erratic Boulders
Erratic Stones
G Boros
Gabi Dolff-Bonekamper
Gabi Dolff-BonekEr
Georges Henri Pingusson
German War Cemetery
Geza Boros
Godehard Janzing
Hanna Kotkowska-Bareja
Home Town
Ile De La
Katarzyna Murawska Muthesius
Liberation Monument
Liisa Lindgren
Marie KlimeOv?
Max Bill
memorial design studies
modernist monument analysis
Mort Pour La France
Philip Ursprung
postwar European sculpture
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public art theory
Public Sculpture
Reuben Fowkes
sculpture
Shelley Hornstein
Social Realism art
Soviet War Memorials
Swiss National Exhibition
Swiss National Identity
Unknown Political Prisoner
West Germany
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138252219
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 Mar 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 memory (including war memorials and Holocaust memorials), state, civic and corporate sculpture, as well as temporary and unexecuted projects, the book shows that persuasive advocates of figuration were to be found in the West, while in the East imaginative experiments in abstraction were proposed in the name of Social Realism. Presenting fresh insights into sculptural practice in the period between 1945 and 1968, this book brings together a wide range of authors, some of whom have never before been published in English. Their essays are complemented by extracts from documentary texts, which give a flavour of contemporary debates, and a biographical section includes entries on many sculptors who will be unfamiliar to an English-speaking audience.
