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Alex Potts
Description: The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist
The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist
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Alex Potts
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Italicised figures indicate pages with illustrations
Adorno, Theodore 179, 189, 200–6, 231, 306
Aesthetic Theory 200–1
Albrizzi, Countess Isabella Teotochi 45
Andre, Carl xi, xii, 7, 8, 190, 193, 207, 233, 235–6, 250, 256, 257, 260, 261, 265, 267, 288, 304, 307, 311–35, 339, 341, 347, 349, 380n4, 382n30, 391n72, 401nn63, 66
‘An Interview with Carl Andre’ (by Phyllis Tuchman) 8, 235–6, 314, 320, 322
‘Commodity and Contradiction, or Contradiction as Commodity’ (with Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe) 332
WORKS:
144 Lead Square 314
144 Magnesium Square 314, 315
144 Steel Square 313
144 Zinc Square 318
36 Copper Square 326
Altstadt Rectangle 316
Coin 405n8
Compound 190, 405n8
Crib 405n8
Equivalent 319, 325, 329, 330, 331
Equivalent VIII 193, 324–5, 331
Last Ladder 312
Lever 7, 331, 333
Small Weathering Piece 406n50
Spill (Scatter Piece) 405n27
Stone Field Sculpture 406nn31, 33
The Way North, East, South, West 319
Antikythera Youth 66, 304
Antique, Greek and Roman sculpture 5, 16, 31–4, 37, 38–40, 45, 55, 56, 61, 65–9, 77, 129–30, 304–5; see also Antikythera Youth; Apollo Belvedere; Belvedere Torso; Borghese Gladiator; Dying Gladiator; Laocoon; Venus de’ Medici
Apollo Belvedere 51
Archipenko, Alexander 103
Armory Show, New York 142
Arnheim, Rudolf 215
Arp, Jean 147
Art and Language 332, 397n11
Arte Povera 2, 178, 179
Babbit, Irving 161, 394n45
Badt, Kurt, ‘Wesen Der Plastik’ 390n34
Bartholdi, Frédéric-Auguste, Statue of Liberty 322
Baselitz, Georg 358, 374–6
studio in Derneburg 375, 376
WORKS:
Frau Paganismus 409n34
Untitled 374, 375, 376
Weiblicher Torso 409n34
Battcock, Gregory, Minimal Art 207
Baudelaire, Charles x, 62–5, 70, 72, 74, 77, 78, 80, 104, 127, 388n65
Salon of 1859 64
‘Why sculpture is boring’ (Salon of 1846) 62–4, 104
Baxandall, Michael, The Limewood Sculptures of Renaissance Germany xiii
Beauvoir, Simone de 390n32, 398n51
Beckett, Samuel 204
Belvedere Torso 26, 27, 382n18
Bergson, Henri 403n63
Berkeley, George 29, 31
Essay towards a New Theory of Vision 29
Bernini, Gianlorenzo 38, 39, 51, 56, 96, 311, 403n59
Apollo and Daphne 51
Beuys, Joseph xi, 10, 367
Plight xiv
Boccioni, Umberto 106–7,114
‘Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting’ 106
‘Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture’ 106–7, 114
WORKS:
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space 107
Bochner, Mel 312
Bontecou, Lee 273–6, 277, 282
Untitled 274, 275
Borghese Gladiator (or Warrior) 28
Böttiger, Carl August 64
Bouchardon, Edmé 28, 386nn77, 80
Cupid carving a Bow from Hercules’ Club 386nn77, 80
Bourdon, David 329, 333
Bourgeois, Louise x, xi, 104, 142, 157, 222, 275, 357, 361–70, 374, 381n10
installation at Peridot Gallery 366, 367
Articulated Lair 370
The Blind Leading the Blind 104
Cell (Glass Spheres and Hands) 367–8, 369, 370
Cell (You Better Grow Up) 368, 377
Cell I 361, 365, 366, 369
Confrontation 409n7
Fillette 362, 363, 364
Nature Study (Velvet Eyes) 362
No Exit 364
One and Others 361
The Sail 408n5
Twosome 364–6
Brancusi, Constantin x, 7, 12, 18–19, 23, 80, 88, 104, 113, 122, 124, 132–45, 159, 160, 162, 242, 259–60, 268, 306, 310, 311, 333, 364, 374
Brancusi and photography 132–5, 268
installation of work at the Sculptors’ Gallery, New York 20
studio 18–19, 80–1, 102, 133, 140
WORKS:
Adam and Eve 102, 138, 139, 144
Beginning of the World 135, 137
Bird in Space 88, 113, 135, 139, 141, 142
Chimera 259, 260
Cock 259
Endless Column 136, 137, 259, 333
Kiss 139
Leda 134
Maiastra 133, 141
Mlle Pogany 139, 140, 141, 142
Princess X 133, 139, 142–4, 364
Sleeping Muse 104
Torso of a Young Man 6, 7, 139, 142
Breton, André 117–18, 132
Mad Love 117
‘Surrealist Situation of the Object’ 117–18
Brock, Thomas 71
Budnik, David 163
Burckhardt, Rudolph 240, 267
Burnham, Jack 147–8, 157–8, 250
Beyond Modern Sculpture 147–8, 157–8
Butler, Reg 103
Cage, John 179, 206
Calder, Alexander 103
Canova, Antonio x, xii-xiii, 5, 12–13, 37–59, 68, 80, 96, 98
Cupid and Psyche 50–1, 52, 53, 384n55
Hebe 44, 49–50
Hercules and Lichas 45, 46, 47, 48–9, 51
Magdalen 384n53
Paolina Borghese 384n55
Perseus Triumphant 51–3, 54, 55, 56
Three Graces 12–13, 14, 15, 38, 49–50, 384n53, 55
Venus Italica 5, 40, 41, 42, 49
Caro, Anthony xii, 121, 132, 158, 181–5, 186, 187, 194–5, 198–9, 208–9, 239, 282, 304, 317, 393n38
Prairie 182, 183, 185, 195
Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste 71–2
Dance 71
Carter, Eliott 199
Cavell, Stanley 188
César 393n31
Cézanne, Paul 85, 153, 208, 224, 232, 233, 390n34
Chadwick, Lynn 103
Chamberlain, John 273–4, 276, 282, 283, 288, 308
Miss Lucy Pink 273, 288
Chapman, Jake and Dinos 410n36
Chave, Anna, ‘Minimalism and the Rhetoric of Power’ 193
Cicognara, Leopoldo 42–3
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de 29
Coplans, John 269, 284, 288, 314
Cragg, Tony, Secretions 9, 10, 11
Cunningham, Merce 179
Dada 17, 132, 144, 186
Dalí, Salvador 118, 119
‘The Object Revealed in Surrealist Experiment’ 118
Dalou, Jules 71
Dandré-Bardon, Michel-François, Essay on Sculpture 24
Daumier, Honoré, ‘Sad countenance of sculpture in the midst of painting’ 62, 63
David, Jaques-Louis 72, 385n64
David d’Angers, Pierre-Jean 385n64
De Kooning, William 159, 226
De Stijl 389n11
Degas, Edgar 25, 260, 382n17
Young Dancer 260
Delacroix, Eugène 72
Delauney, Robert 208
Derrida, Jacques 211
Diderot, Denis 27–8, 38
Letter on the Blind 28
Salon of 1765 27
Duchamp, Marcel 5, 17, 114–17, 132
‘Green Box’ 114, 115
Bottle Rack 114, 115, 116–17
Fountain 114, 116, 117
Dying Gladiator (or Gaul) 28
Einstein, Carl x, 129–31, 132, 391n46
The Art of the Twentieth Century 130
Negerplastik x, 129–31
Elsen, Albert E. xii
Falconet, Étienne-Maurice 24–5, 27, 28, 32
Reflections on Sculpture 24–5
Fernow, Carl Ludwig 45, 48–9, 50–1, 54–6
On the Sculptor Canova and his Works 50–1
Flanagan, Barry xii
Flavin, Dan 256, 325
Foucault, Michel 211
Freud, Sigmund 117–18, 223, 388n90
Fried, Michael x, 9–10, 178–9, 181–91, 193–201, 203, 206, 207, 208–9, 210, 237, 240, 269, 270, 280, 281, 304
‘Art and Objecthood’ 9, 178–9, 181, 182, 185–6, 189, 207, 209, 269, 281
‘Shape as Form’ 181–2
Fuseli, Henri 45
Gabo, Naum 97, 108–9, 146
Column 108
Geldzahler, Henry 182, 307
New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940–1970 182
Genet, Jean 390n32
Giacometti, Alberto 104, 118–24, 139, 152, 155, 208, 225–6, 260–1, 317, 378, 388n64, 405n22
‘Letter to Pierre Matisse’ 120, 390n24
WORKS:
Disagreeable Object 119
Suspended Ball 119, 121, 152
Venice Woman IX 122, 123, 124
Gibson, John J. 215
Gibson, John 71
Giedion-Welcker, Carola 132, 144, 145
Modern Plastic Art 145
Gilbert and George xii
Gilbert, Alfred 71
Comedy and Tragedy: ‘Sic Vita’ 73
Shaftesbury Memorial 71
Girodet, Anne-Louis 45
Glass, Philip 199, 256, 374
Gober, Robert 367, 382n32
Gombrich, Ernst H. Art and Illusion 215
Gonelli, Francesco 384n37
Gonzalez, Julio 158, 159, 165–6, 168
Head called ‘The Tunnel’ 167
Large Maternity 167
Greenberg, Clement 146, 153, 154, 159–60, 173–6, 179–81, 182, 185, 187, 209, 237, 280, 296, 390n26, 394n45
‘After Abstract Expressionism’ 185
Art and Culture 159, 160
‘The New Sculpture’ 160, 180, 181
‘The Recentness of Sculpture’ 181
Gsell, Paul 61, 101
Haacke, Hans 380n5
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Marble Faun 70
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 2, 205
Aesthetics 2
Heidegger, Martin 218
Heizer, Michael 322
Hemsterhuis, Franciscus 35–7, 38
Letter on Sculpture 36
Hepworth, Barbara 103, 104, 146, 149–53, 154, 157–8, 275, 357, 399n80, 409n13
Pendour 104, 150, 151, 152, 158
Two Forms 152, 153
Herder, Johann Gottfried
Sculpture. Some observations on form and shape from Pygmalion’s creative dream x, 2, 26, 28–35, 36, 37, 38, 77, 97, 386n4
Hesse, Eva x, xi, 8, 207, 222, 236, 251, 256, 264, 269, 304, 334, 335–56, 408n4
interview with Cindy Nemser 334, 335, 337, 341
WORKS:
Accession II 344, 345, 346
Contingent 236, 335, 337, 338, 339, 340, 343–5, 346, 347, 348, 349, 353–4, 356
Hang-up 335, 336, 337–8
Laocoon 341, 342, 343, 351
Repetition Nineteen III 408n92
Right After 354, 355, 356
Several 343
Untitled (Not Yet) 407n85
Untitled 348–9, 350, 351, 353–5
Vinculum II 352, 353
Hildebrand, Adolf von x, 61–2, 74, 125–8, 129, 147, 149, 151, 170, 216
The Problem of Form in Figurative Art x, 61–2, 125
Hogarth, William 34
Honour, Hugh xiii, 42
Horn, Rebecca, Kiss of the Rhino 198, 199
Husserl, Edmund 207, 216, 218
The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness 207
Judd, Donald x, xi, 7, 121, 142, 156, 160, 179, 190, 195, 196, 198, 199, 207, 209, 227, 235, 236, 250, 257, 261, 264, 269–310, 313, 314, 317, 318, 322, 325, 337, 339, 340, 345, 349, 355, 362, 375, 395n25
estate at Marfa 307, 308, 309, 310
‘Abstract Expressionism’ 296
‘Art and Architecture’ 272
‘Complaint’ 307
Complete Writings 1959–1975 235
interview with John Coplans 269, 284, 288, 314
‘Jackson Pollock’ 299–301
‘Questions to Stella and Judd’ 236, 273, 282, 298
‘Specific Objects’ 7, 196, 235, 269, 272–3, 278, 279, 281–4, 288, 290, 293, 299
WORKS:
Untitled 1963 270, 285, 288
Untitled 1963 271, 285, 288
Untitled 1966 292, 294
Untitled 1966 7, 290, 291
Untitled 1966 (stack) 292, 293
Untitled 1966 195, 228
Untitled 1966 286, 290
Untitled 1966 305
Untitled 1966 (stack) 303
Untitled 1966 286
Untitled 1977 287
Untitled 1988 295
Untitled 1988 302
Kahnweiler, Daniel-Henri, ‘The Essence of Sculpture’ 128–9
Kaprow, Allan 252
Kiefer, Anselm 194
King, Philip 406n34
Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig 374
Klee, Paul 208
Klein, Yves 279
Koons, Jeff 205, 408n96
Stacked 205
Krauss, Rosalind xii, 3, 12, 132, 207, 208–10, 267
Passages in Modern Sculpture xii, 12, 132, 207, 209, 267
‘Sculpture in the Expanded Field’ 3
Kultermann, Udo, New Dimensions in Sculpture 273
Kusama, Yayoi 279, 281–2
Accumulation 279
Lacan, Jacques 229, 398n51
Landesberger, Franz, Vom Wesen der Plastik 391n46
Landon, Charles-Paul 43–4
Laocoon 32, 33, 45, 341
Laurens, Henri 103
Leiris, Michel, Documents 118–19
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 2, 28, 32, 36
Laocoon 2, 28, 32
Lévi-Strauss, Claude 210
Le Witt, Sol 256, 289, 340
Serial Project No. 1 (ABCD) 289
Lipchitz, Jacques 103
Lippard, Lucy 236, 328, 335, 340
The Dematerialisation of the Art Object 328
Locke, John 29
Long, Richard 325
Lukács, Georg 85, 200
History and Class Consciousness 200
Maillol, Aristide 130, 145, 147
Night 131
Malevich, Kasimir 108, 299
Malraux, André 21, 225, 230, 231
The Imaginary Museum 225
The Voices of Silence 21, 225
Mapplethorpe, Robert 364
Martin, Agnes 404n1
Matisse, Henri 104, 143, 146, 208
Matisse, Pierre 120
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice 195, 200, 207–34, 244–5, 246, 263, 272, 298, 306, 345, 349, 351
‘Cézanne’s Doubt’ 208, 225
Eye and Mind 208, 224–5, 231, 234
Humanism and Terror: Essays on the Communist Problem 211
‘Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence’ 208, 226–7, 230
Signs 208, 212
The Phenomenology of Perception 208, 211, 213–15, 222, 223, 224, 225, 263
The Primacy of Perception 208
The Visible and the Invisible 210, 213, 220–2, 224, 232, 345, 349, 351
Meunier, Constantin 71, 74
Michelangelo 56, 65, 67, 68–70, 74, 75, 91, 96, 129
Day 69, 70
Miró, Joan 103
Moholy-Nagy, László 389n11, 392n2
Mondrian, Piet 108
Monet, Claude 100
Moore, Henry xii, 84, 103, 121, 145, 146, 148, 149–52, 154, 157, 158, 159, 165, 227, 256, 261, 267, 399n80
Reclining Figure 149, 150, 152
Moore, Peter 264, 267
Morris, Robert xi, 10, 13, 160, 179, 190, 194, 196, 207, 211, 235, 236–56, 257–8, 260, 263, 265, 266–8, 269, 270, 271, 283–4, 285, 291, 297–8, 318, 325, 344, 382n29, 391n72, 397n11, 408n92
and photography 266–8
‘Aligned with Nazca’ 252
Continuous Project Altered Daily 235
‘Notes on Dance’ 240, 245
‘Notes on Sculpture’ 207, 235, 236–8, 240, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 250, 251, 255, 263, 269
‘The Present Tense of Space’ 266
‘Professional Rules’ 252
‘Some Notes on the Phenomenology of Making’ 250, 251, 252, 265
‘Some Splashes in the Ebb Tide’ 253
WORKS:
Green Gallery installation 190, 240, 241, 267, 283
The Cloud 284
Hearing 254
Neo Classic 249
Site 240
Two Columns 240
Untitled (L-beams) 239, 240, 267, 291
Untitled (1967) 13, 16, 247, 344
Untitled (1967) 240, 247, 248
Untitled (1967) 243, 245, 246
Waterman Switch 247, 250
Mulas, Ugo 163, 169
Muther, Richard 77
Nauman, Bruce 22, 194, 197, 222, 251, 256, 264, 357–8, 370–4, 376, 380n4, 410n37
Anthro/Socio 372, 373, 374
Going Around the Corner Piece 197, 371, 372
Room with my soul left out, room that does not care 410n37
Newman, Barnett 122, 160, 269, 280, 296, 297–8, 301–2, 311, 337
Vir Heroicus Sublimis 297, 301
Noguchi, Isamu 103
O’Hara, Frank 165, 176
Oldenburg, Claes 10, 273–4, 276–9, 282, 341
Floor Burger 276, 277, 278
Soft Switch 276, 277, 278
Oppenheim, Dennis 322
Oppenheim, Meret, Déjeuner de Fourrure 119, 120
Pater, Walter x, 3, 62, 65–70
The Renaissance 3, 62, 65–70
Pevsner, Antoine 108
Picasso, Pablo 104, 227, 251
Guitar 105
Piero della Francesca 153
Pigalle, Jean-Baptiste 28
Pollock, Jackson 159, 226, 227, 248, 269, 273, 280, 296, 298, 299–301, 311
Autumn Rhythm 300
Pound, Ezra 135–6
Pradier, James 71, 382n25
Nyssia 17
Primary Structures Exhibition 285, 291
Pygmalion fantasy 34–7, 80, 147
Quatremère de Quincey, Antoine-Chrysostome 43
Rainer, Yvonne 179
Ray, Charles 10, 12
Boy 10, 13
Ray, Man 114, 115
Read, Herbert xii, 146–8
The Art of Sculpture 146–8
A Concise History of Modern Sculpture 146
Reich, Steve 197, 374
Reinhardt, Ad 1, 381n1, 404n1
Reynolds, Joshua 25–7
Discourses on Art 25
Richier, Germaine 103, 398n54
Riegl, Alois 125
Rilke, Rainer Maria x, 17, 35, 61, 72, 77–81, 84–90, 96–101, 165, 386n4
Auguste Rodin x, 17, 61, 72, 77
Robbe-Grillet, Alain 179
Rodchenko, Alexander, Spatial Construction No. 12 109, 110
Rodin, Auguste x, 5, 7, 12, 17, 25, 27, 61, 62, 68, 70, 71, 72, 74–101, 122, 127, 129, 130, 146, 147, 160, 162, 165, 268, 310, 376, 398n54
and photography 85, 91
studio 60, 80–1, 85, 86, 87–8, 89
‘Art; Conversations with Paul Gsell’ 61, 101, 388n44
WORKS:
Age of Bronze 89, 94, 95, 98
Balzac 19, 71, 80, 81, 82, 83, 90, 98, 387n31
Burghers of Calais 80, 87–8
Claude Lorraine 80
Cybele 90, 91, 92, 93, 98
Eustace de St Pierre 88
Eve 86, 88, 91, 388n71
Gates of Hell 60, 76, 85, 91
Iris, Messenger of the Gods 60, 90–1
Kiss 19, 90, 387n31
Meditation 88, 89, 90
Striding Man 6, 7, 75, 90, 98
Thinker 80, 88, 90, 91, 98, 99
Triumphant Youth 75
Rosso, Medardo 129
Roszak, Theodore 103
Roubiliac, Jean-François 32
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Pygmalion, a lyric scene 35
Rubens, Peter Paul 45
Ruskin, John 193
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus 71
Sartre, Jean-Paul 124, 211, 212, 213, 215, 364, 367, 398n51
Saussure, Ferdinand de 210
Schneeman, Carolee 240
Schoenberg, Arnold 204–5
Serra, Richard 9, 121, 189, 193, 194, 207, 208, 217–18, 222, 236, 256–68, 269, 288, 297, 304, 307, 317, 318, 324, 327, 334, 339, 349, 380n4, 408n4
and photography 266–8
WORKS:
Circuit 216, 217, 218, 262, 263
Delineator 261, 262
One Ton Prop (House of Cards) 263, 264
Shift 263
Skullcracker Series 264
Spin-Out 217, 258, 263
Strike 263, 264
Tilted Arc 192, 193, 256, 261, 265
Weight and Measure 12, 260, 262–3
Simmel, Georg 72, 74–6, 84, 97, 155
‘Rodin’s Sculpture and the contemporary spirit’ 72
Smith, David x, 1, 49, 68, 81, 84, 104, 121, 144, 146, 154, 158–77, 179, 181, 186, 235, 242, 255, 282, 288, 308, 310, 317, 320, 327, 355, 378
studio at Bolton Landing 81, 84, 162, 163, 164, 165, 167, 169, 308, 310
‘The Artist and the Architect’ 161
‘Modern Art and Society’ 161
‘On Abstract Art’ 160
WORKS:
Australia 167, 168, 169, 170, 173
Cubi I 163, 164, 166
Cubi XIX 288
Cubi XVII 164, 173, 288
Cubi XVIII 164, 173
Cubi XXIV 170, 172
Medals for Dishonour 160
Sentinel I 166, 168, 173
Volton XV 168, 170, 173
Wagon II 167, 173, 174, 175, 176
Zig II 165, 168, 171
Smith, Tony 190, 196, 258, 282, 284, 395n10
Die 190, 191, 196, 258, 282, 284
Smithson, Robert 2, 84, 160, 256, 257, 322–4, 325, 327, 328, 337, 347, 397n11, 399n3, 405n7, 408n92
Non-Site (Palisades, Edgewater, New Jersey) 323, 324
Spiral Jetty 84
Sommari va, Giovani Battista 39
Spielmann, Marion Henry, British Sculpture and Sculptors of To-Day 71–2
Steichen, Edward 139
Stella, Frank 187, 236, 272, 280, 311, 338, 403n77
‘Questions to Stella and Judd’ 186, 236, 403n77
Stieglitz, Alfred 114, 116
Stokes, Adrian x, 146, 148–9, 151, 153–8, 275
Reflections on the Nude 154
The Smooth and the Rough 156–7
Stones of Rimini 148–9, 153
Stravinsky, Igor 204–5
Suvero, Mark di 282, 406n34
Sylvester, David 208, 242–4, 267
Symonds, John Addington 387n24
Tatlin, Vladimir 3, 111–13, 154, 353
Letatlin 113
Model of the Monument to the Third International 3, 110, 111, 112–13
Thornycroft, Hamo 71
Thorwaldsen, Bertel 54, 56–9, 71, 80
Jason 54
Jupiter and Ganymede 57, 58, 59
Shepherd Boy 56, 57
Tinguely, Jean 103
Tucker, William, The Language of Modern Sculpture xii, 132
Tzara, Tristan 132
Van Gogh, Vincent 76
Vantongerloo, Georges 389n11
Venus de’ Medici 40
Warhol, Andy 341, 374
Wearing Gillian, Sixty Minutes 198
Westmacott, Richard, jun., The Schools of Sculpture Ancient and Modern 385n65
Whistler, James McNeill, Nocturne 193
Whiteread, Rachel 87, 358–61
Ghost 360
Untitled (Orange Bath) 358, 359, 361
Water Tower 87, 408n2
Williams, William Carlos 142–4
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim 32, 45, 65, 384nn41, 56
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 210
Wollheim, Richard, ‘Minimal Art’ 207
Worringer, Wilhelm, Abstraction and Empathy 390n36
Zadkine, Ossip 103