Sèvres extraordinaire! : sculpture from 1740 until today /

"The first large-scale, English-language publication to explore the production of sculpture created by the famed French manufactory from its eighteenth-century origins to the present"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Préaud, Tamara (Author, Curator)
Other Authors: Guilmin, Soazig (Contributor, Curator), Weber, Susan, 1954- (Editor, Curator, writer of foreword.), Vignon, Charlotte (Editor, Curator), Cernogora, Judith (Contributor), Rionnet, Florence (Contributor), Scherf, Guilhem (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bard Graduate Center, [2024]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Bard Graduate Center director's foreword / Susan Weber
  • Sèvres et Limoges, Manufacture et Musées nationaux director's foreword / René-Jacques Mayer
  • Editor's note / Charlotte Vignon
  • Preface / Tamara Préaud
  • Introduction. French sculpture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: historical context and stylistic references / Guilhem Scherf
  • Sculpture in France from the Belle Époque to Pop Art / Florence Rionnet
  • Part I: General considerations. Materials and production / Tamara Préaud and Soazig Guilmin
  • Salaries and prices / Tamara Préaud
  • Imitations, copies, overmoldings, and marks / Tamara Préaud
  • Part II: History of Sculpture at Sèvres. The eighteenth century / Tamara Préaud
  • The directorship of Alexandre Brongniart / Tamara Préaud
  • The second half of the nineteenth century, 1848-91 / Tamara Préaud
  • The twentieth century / Tamara Préaud
  • Two decades of contemporary art at Sèvres, 2000-20 / Judith Cernogora
  • Sales and deliveries after 1941 / Soazig Guilmin
  • Checklist of the exhibition
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Photographic credits.