Blühm, Andreas,

The colour of sculpture, 1840-1910 / Colour of sculpture, eighteen forty-nineteen ten Colour of sculpture, 1840 to 1910 Andreas Blühm [and others]. - 277 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 30 cm

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, July 26-Nov. 17, 1996 and at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, Dec. 13, 1996-Apr. 6, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-270) and index.

Lenders -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- In living colour: A short history of colour and sculpture in the 19th century -- Colour, sculpture, mimesis: A 19th-century debate -- Sculpture colouring and the industries of art in the 19th century -- Under the spell of Madame Tussaud: Aspects of 'high' and 'low' in 19th-century polychromed sculpture -- Art for the sake of the soul: Polychrome sculpture and literary Symbolism -- Painter-sculptors and polychromy in the evolution of modernism -- Catalogue -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.

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Polychromy--Exhibitions
Sculpture, Modern--19th century--Exhibitions
Sculpture, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions

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