MASTERS OF MODERN SCULPTURE Part I
The Pioneers
a film by Michael Blackwood
(1978, 58 minutes, color)
Website:
http://www.michaelblackwoodproductions.com/arts_pioneers.php
Artists featured in the film:
Rodin, Degas, Rosso, Bourdelle, Maillol, Lehmbruck, Matisse, Picasso, Lipchitz, Laurens, Epstein, Boccioni, Duchamp-Villon, Gonzales, Brancusi
Narration by Edward Fry and Nancy Rosen
Narrator: sculptor George Segal
Rodin's 1898 monument to Balzac--called the first modern sculpture--undermined the centuries-old academic tradition. His contemporaries infused matter with imagination and meaning. They introduced the defining concepts of abstraction, ambiguity, and metamorphosis that laid the foundation for Modernism.
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