Teach yourself to study sculpture [antikvár]

FOREWORD The aim of this book is to give an approach to the understanding of sculpture. It is not a handbook of instruction for those who wish to learn how to model or carve-an end which of course they can best achieve under the guidance of a practising sculptor. Somé reference is made to tools and methods but only so much as may be useful to the generál reader and help in appreciation. The " study " of sculpture to which the title refers is the study of what it has to convey to everybody. It is the author's hope that the practising art student will not find it without relevance to what he or she is trying to do-at the same time it is addressed to all those who wish to define for themselves what sculpture means and what its importance has been, and is, to the world. It is necessarily historical in part, sculpture having so much light to shed on humán history in every phase, but the effort is alsó made to indicate in what its value as an art consists. The story is brought down to the present day, for sculpture is far from being a thing of the past and the developments of this century-and of recent years- are not only of interest and moment in themselves but need to be seen against the historic background. The book will have served its purpose if it induces the reader to explore further that great " imaginary musuem " (to borrow M. André Malraux's exciting phrase) which sculpture and illustrations of sculpture