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This book examines the relationship between modern sculpture and architecture in the mid-twentieth century, an interplay that has laid the ground for the semi-sculptural or semi-architectural works by architects such as Frank Gehry and artists such as Dan Graham. The first half of the book looks at how the addition of sculpture enhanced several architectural projects, including Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion (1929) and Eliel Saarinen's Cranbrook Campus (1934). The second half of the book uses several additional case studies, including Philip Johnson's sculpture court for New York's Museum of Modern Art (1953), to explore what architectural spaces can add to the sculpture they are designed to contain. Curtis argues that it was in the middle of the twentieth century, before sculptural and architectural forms began to converge, that the complementary nature of--though essential difference between--the two art forms began to clearly emerge: how figurative sculpture highlighted the modernist architectural experience and how the abstract qualities of that architecture imparted to sculpture a heightened role.

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• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Public Place of Sculpture
• Chapter 2 The Tradition of the Monument
• Chapter 3 Direct Expression through the Material
• Chapter 4 The Private Arena: The Possibilities of Painting, Pictorialism, and the Spatial Environment
• Chapter 5 The Object: Function, Invitation, and Interaction
• Chapter 6 A Shared Ideal: Building a New Environment
• Chapter 7 The Figurative Ideal
• Conclusion
• List of Illustrations
• Bibliographic Essay
• Timeline
• Index

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Penelope Curtis is the author of several books on twentieth-century architecture, including Sculpture 1900-1945 (Oxford History of Art) and a co-author of Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective.