The human factor : the figure in contemporary sculpture / edited by Ralph Rugoff ; artists, Paweł Althamer [and twenty-four others] ; [authors of text, Penelope Curtis [and four others]].

'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 we...

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Main Authors: Rugoff, Ralph, 1957- (Author, Editor)
Curtis, Penelope (Author)
Corporate Author: Hayward Gallery (Host institution)
Other Authors: Althamer, Paweł, 1967- (Artist)
Benson, Frank (Artist)
Bhabha, Huma, 1962- (Artist)
Cattelan, Maurizio, 1960- (Artist)
Fischer, Urs, 1973- (Artist)
Fritsch, Katharina, 1956- (Artist)
Gander, Ryan (Artist)
Genzken, Isa, 1948- (Artist)
Harrison, Rachel, 1966- (Artist)
Herold, Georg, 1947- (Artist)
Hirschhorn, Thomas (Artist)
Honert, Martin, 1953- (Artist)
Huyghe, Pierre, 1962- (Artist)
Koons, Jeff, 1955- (Artist)
McCarthy, Paul, 1945- (Artist)
Miller, John (Artist)
Noland, Cady, 1956- (Artist)
Rondinone, Ugo, 1963- (Artist)
Schütte, Thomas, 1954- (Artist)
Shonibare, Yinka, 1962- (Artist)
Varga Weisz, Paloma, 1966- (Artist)
Wallinger, Mark, 1959- (Artist)
Warren, Rebecca, 1965- (Artist)
Wekua, Andro, 1977- (Artist)
Wilkes, Cathy, 1966- (Artist)
Language:English
Published: London : Hayward Publishing, ©2014.
Subjects:
Figure sculpture > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Human figure in art > Exhibitions.
Nude in art > Exhibitions.
Human beings in art > Exhibitions.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Physical Description:198 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.