After Modern Sculpture : Art in the United States and Europe, 1965-1970

by Richard Williams

• ISBN13: 9780719056512
• ISBN10: 0719056519
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-09-02
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

During the mid- 1960s, sculptors in the United States and Europe simultaneously lost interest in making objects. Instead, under banners such as "Anti-Form" and "Arte Povera", they began to present undifferentiated matter as sculpture: industrial flit, lead, dirt, vegetables, even live animals. Such heaps, arrays, and environments seemed to mark the end of modern sculpture. They dominated sculptural debate at the time of their appearance, and they have since proved enormously influential on contemporary art. This is the first book to treat such work as a separate topic.

Author Biography

Richard Williams is Lecturer in Contextual Studies, Liverpool John Moores University.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
After modern sculpture	1	(17)
Form and Anti Form	18	(21)
A new subjectivity	39	(20)
`The vacant, all-embracing stare'	59	(22)
Dematerialization	81	(19)
Space	100	(18)
Earth	118	(21)
Revolution	139	(23)
Bibliography	162	(13)
Index	175