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How does photography shape the way we see sculpture? In this book, the author broaches this question through an in-depth consideration of the photography of American sculptor David Smith (1906 1965).

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"Does more than reveal the important role photography played in Smith's art; it fundamentally alters how we see the works he photographed." Bookforum "...thorough research and exceedingly compelling and rigorously formal readings of individual works." -- Christa Noel Robbins Oxford Art Journal

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Problem of Photography and Sculpture 1. Toward Mass Reproduction as a Public Display 2. Aerial Vision, Photographic Abstraction, and the Surface of Sculpture 3. Images of Nonbelonging: Dramatizing Autonomy in the Sculptural Group 4. Picturing Color in Space 5. The Terrain of the Vulgar: Smith's 1963--64 Nudes Conclusion: Framed and Unframed Space Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index

David Smith in Two Dimensions

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 31 January 2015
      ISBN-13 9780520280342
      978-0520280342
      ISBN-10 0520280342
      Also in:
      History of art Individual artists, art monographs Sculpture

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How does photography shape the way we see sculpture? In this book, the author broaches this question through an in-depth consideration of the photography of American sculptor David Smith (1906 1965).

      Trade Review
      "Does more than reveal the important role photography played in Smith's art; it fundamentally alters how we see the works he photographed." Bookforum "...thorough research and exceedingly compelling and rigorously formal readings of individual works." -- Christa Noel Robbins Oxford Art Journal

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction: The Problem of Photography and Sculpture 1. Toward Mass Reproduction as a Public Display 2. Aerial Vision, Photographic Abstraction, and the Surface of Sculpture 3. Images of Nonbelonging: Dramatizing Autonomy in the Sculptural Group 4. Picturing Color in Space 5. The Terrain of the Vulgar: Smith's 1963--64 Nudes Conclusion: Framed and Unframed Space Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index

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