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"--
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New York :
Bard Graduate Center,
[2024]
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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.