The history of modern sculpture in a few paragraphs

In the “1960s and ’70s public sculpture was contemporary art’s foremost fatality — deader than painting actually. The corpse generally took the form of corporate, pseudo-Minimalist plop art.” Amen to that. But sculpture has been changing, as this article, Public Art, Eyesore to Eye Candy in the NYTimes.com neatly explains and illustrates with a great slide show. And what is it about the new sculpture that makes it “So Different, So Appealing“? 🙂 Well, by…

“Freely mixing elements of Pop, Minimalism, conceptual art and realism, these pieces also often benefit from new technologies and materials that make them dynamic and provocative.”

I highly recommend the article. A good overview of what is happening in sculpture, with a bit of a review of two of the more signifigant artists in sculpture today, Jeff Koons and Richard Serra, and a little shot taken at Damien Hirst, too. 🙂