Hans Josephsohn / Gerhard Mack ; photographs by Georg Gisel.
By: Mack, Gerhard
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BookPublisher: Zürich : Scheidegger & Spiess, 2005Description: 293 p. : numerous ill. (partly col.) ; 28 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 3858817015 (English edition : cl.).Subject(s): Josephsohn, 1920- | SculptureDDC classification: 730.92 JOS
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| 730.92 HRD Alfred Hrdlicka : das gesamtwerk: bildhauerei / | 730.92 IPO Ipousteguy : sculptures recentes. | 730.92 JOH Jasper Johns, the sculptures : an exhibition / | 730.92 JOS Hans Josephsohn / | 730.92 KAP Anish Kapoor / | 730.92 KAP Anish Kapoor : feeling into form / | 730.92 KAP Anish Kapoor : Kunsthalle Basel 6.10.-10.11.1985, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven 3.5.-8.6.1986 / |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Hans Josephsohn is one of the premier Swiss sculptors working today. For more than sixty years, he has sculpted numerous arresting figures and busts that capture the tensions of our age. Gerhard Mack brings Josephsohn's work to the wider world in this in-depth look at the artist and the impact of his sculpture.
Mack traces Josephsohn's evolution as an artist, charting his initial years and first successes as he broke onto the scene and carved out a place in twentieth-century art. He explores the power and complexity of Josephsohn's standing and reposing figures, reliefs, and busts, analyzing how Josephsohn employs space, volume, and light in his pieces. Georg Gisel's striking photographs capture the fragile plaster figures-in-progress standing in Josephsohn's studio, revealing them to be meditations on fate and the accidents of existence. An unprecedented study of an important, yet lesser-known, European sculptor, Hans Josephsohn will be invaluable to anyone interested in the development of contemporary and Swiss art.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. 7)
- Childhood and Youth in Konigsberg (p. 21)
- Neo-classicist Sculpture in Switzerland (p. 35)
- Apprenticeship with Otto Muller (p. 43)
- The Studio on Bergstrasse (p. 63)
- Reduction (p. 77)
- Reconquering the Body (p. 113)
- The High Reliefs (p. 149)
- Half-figures and Reclining Figures (p. 205)
- The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Late Public Recognition (p. 275)
- Appendix
- Notes (p. 287)
- Exhibition History (p. 289)
- Bibliography (p. 290)
- Photographic Credits (p. 293)