John Perrault makes an eloquent case why figurative sculpture can often carry the content that truly abstract sculpture cannot.
After you read that posting by Perrault, then please also read an earlier one on an exhibition of figurative sculptures at the Met.
I find the huge variance around one theme fasciating, and a window into the humanity of an art critic - liking "X" here and disliking "X" there because of "fill-in-the-blank."
F. Lennox Campello is a widely published Washington, DC and Philadelphia based art critic, as well as an award winning artist and curator. He is also often heard on NPR and the Voice of America discussing visual art issues. …
Modelling and Sculpting the Human Figure
Covers modelling from casts, live models; measurements; frameworks; scale of proportions; compositions; reliefs, drapery, medals, etc. 107 full-page photographic plates. 27 other photographs. ...
Sculpture since 1945 (Oxford History of Art)
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