| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 329 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Ancient Mesopotamia : materials and places -- Ancient Egypt : the magnitude of things -- Greek sculpture : once bright and shiny -- Etruria and Rome : cults colour coding -- Late antiquity to early Medieval : piecing together the cultural relevance -- The crafted glory of late Medieval sculpture -- Early colour symbolism and colour theories -- Renaissance and Reformation : painterly finishes on the wane -- Baroque and Rococo : white sculptures amidst a blaze of colour -- Neoclassicism : what happened to polychromy? -- A modern reading of colour in sculpture |
| Summary |
This book introduces the reader to the art of sculpture across five millennia up to the present, and from the Near East to the west. In each of the eleven chapters, a number of selected works are discussed to exemplify the circumstances and conditions for making pieces of sculpture - objects peculiar to place, time and context. Within each cultural framework, characteristics are observable that suggest various reasons for the use of colour in sculpture. These encompass local preferences, customs or cultural requirements; and others point to an impulse to enhance the expression of the phenomena |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sculpture -- History.
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Color in art -- History
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Polychromy -- History
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History of art / art & design styles.
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Social & cultural history.
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ART -- Sculpture & Installation.
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Color in art
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Polychromy
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Sculpture
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781299974333 |
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1299974333 |
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9781443852654 |
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1443852651 |
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