The human factor
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126538
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320130308
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  alternate name: Nude in art--Exhibitions
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  alternate name: Figure sculpture--Exhibitions--21st century
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  alternate name: Human figure in art--Exhibitions
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  alternate name: Human beings in art--Exhibitions
abstract: "The Human Factor: the Figure in Contemporary Sculpture' brings together the work of 25 leading international artists, in whose practice the human form plays a central role. Over the past 25 years, artists have reinvented figurative sculpture by looking back to earlier movements in art history as well as imagery from contemporary culture. Setting up dialogues with modernist as well as classical and archaic models of art, these artists engage and confront the question of how we represent the 'human' today. Eschewing concerns related to psychological portraiture, these artists use the figure as a catalyst for evoking far-ranging content, including subjects spanning political violence and mortality to sexuality and voyeurism. A unique survey of figurative sculpture today, this highly illustrated volume features newly-commissioned essays by authors including Tate Britain Director, Penelope Curtis, art critic and writer Martin Herbert, Artangel co-director James Lingwood, art historian Lisa Lee and Hayward Gallery director, and curator of the exhibition, Ralph Rugoff. Alongside full-colour images of the artists' works, the book also includes original and rarely-seen material documenting the creation of these fascinating works"
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31148593
editor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310181424
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Foreword -- The Human Factor / Ralph Rugoff -- Standing Sculpture at the Turn of the Century: Exchange Values and Metamorphoses / Penelope Curtis -- Post-Abstract and Data-Mapped: The Conditions of Contemporary Figure Sculpture / Martin Herbert -- After the Fall: The Re-emergence of the Figure in Sculpture / James Lingwood -- Bodies Politic / Lisa Lee.
temporal coverage: 2000-2014
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301265079
type: CreativeWork

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