Sculpture: From the Renaissance to the Present Day, Genevieve Bresc-Bautier, 1st Edition, Los Angeles: Taschen America LLC., 1999, NF, HC

Bresc-Bautier, Genevieve. Los Angeles: Taschen America LLC., 1999

Engish, First Edition, Near Fine, HC, Folio 9"x 13.5", 208 pp.

ISBN: 9783822870341

Fine folio, grey paper over board, white lettering to cover and spine. Sharp tips, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Pages pristine and intact. Replete with full-color images, many full page. 608 pp. Near Fine gray dust jacket featuring photograph of Michelangelo’s The Dying Slave to front, photograph of Jeff Koon’s Rabbit to back. Minor shelf-wear and small closed tear to back cover. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. Text in English. Contents include over 1000 large-format full-color illustrations and overviews describing how sculpture has developed, responded to different influences throughout the centuries, and clearly explains how this art form has evolved to reflect the intellectual and spiritual attitudes of its times. Following on from Sculpture: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages, this text begins with the Renaissance- as a period of transition from the Middle Ages to a new era where the human condition was coming to be seen in a new light, marking a turning point in artistic creativity, as demonstrated by the works of artists like Donatello and Michelangelo, in which the new humanistic ideals were convincingly expressed – moves through sculpture’s exultant way into towns and cities in the wake of the French Revolution, and continues into contemporary artists like Jeff Koons.