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Frederick Hart: Sculptor

Frederick Hart: Sculptor

Robert Chase
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This oversize volume features a remarkable artist whose work rediscovers the human figure and celebrates humanity's aspirations. Hart's major public commissions include the bronze Three Soldiers at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the monumental Creation doors at the National Cathedral. Here are stone, bronze, and acrylic works; essays; and a catalogue raisonne from 1968 to the present.
Introduction / J. Carter Brown --
A commentary / Tom Wolfe --
Portfolio: Washington National Cathedral --
Metamorphosis: stone carver to artist / Homan Potterton --
Portfolio: Vietnam Veterans Memorial --
Three soldiers: a solution to a national controversy / James M. Goode --
A soldier's reflections / Frederick Downs, Jr. --
Evolution out of chaos: the Creation sculptures / Frederick Turner --
Apotheosis of the human figure: an aesthetic of evolutionary humanism / Donald Martin Reynolds --
The reenchantment of public art / James F. Cooper --
Transcending tradition: the cast acrylic resin works / Robert Chase --
Plates --
Catalogue raisonné / compiled by Pamela Hoyle --
Frederick Hart chronology --
Profile.
Language
English
Pages
144
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Hudson Hills Press
Release
February 22, 1995
ISBN
1555951201
ISBN 13
9781555951207

Frederick Hart: Sculptor

Robert Chase
4/5 ( ratings)
This oversize volume features a remarkable artist whose work rediscovers the human figure and celebrates humanity's aspirations. Hart's major public commissions include the bronze Three Soldiers at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the monumental Creation doors at the National Cathedral. Here are stone, bronze, and acrylic works; essays; and a catalogue raisonne from 1968 to the present.
Introduction / J. Carter Brown --
A commentary / Tom Wolfe --
Portfolio: Washington National Cathedral --
Metamorphosis: stone carver to artist / Homan Potterton --
Portfolio: Vietnam Veterans Memorial --
Three soldiers: a solution to a national controversy / James M. Goode --
A soldier's reflections / Frederick Downs, Jr. --
Evolution out of chaos: the Creation sculptures / Frederick Turner --
Apotheosis of the human figure: an aesthetic of evolutionary humanism / Donald Martin Reynolds --
The reenchantment of public art / James F. Cooper --
Transcending tradition: the cast acrylic resin works / Robert Chase --
Plates --
Catalogue raisonné / compiled by Pamela Hoyle --
Frederick Hart chronology --
Profile.
Language
English
Pages
144
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Hudson Hills Press
Release
February 22, 1995
ISBN
1555951201
ISBN 13
9781555951207

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