Commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the National Sculpture Society, this important history traces America's rich heritage of figurative sculpture from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 to the present. It explores the full range of the subject,including massive works such as Mount Rushmore as well as Augustus Saint-Gaudens's exquisite twenty-dollar gold piece.

 Illustrated with more than 275 outstanding examples of American figurative sculpture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Masters of American Sculpture begins with an analysis of the influence of Beaux-Arts tradition on the creation of the great public monuments of the United States. With this background, the book moves on to survey chronologically such important categories of sculpture as equestrian monuments, tributes to war heroes, and portraits.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION：THE FIGURATIVE TRADITION

CHAPTER ONE

BEAUX-ARTS SYMBIOSIS

ARCHITECTURE AND  THE  HUMAN  FIGURE

CHAPTER TWO

A NEW PERSPECTIVE

ON THE NATURE OF PUBLIC MONUMENTS

CHAPTER THREE

SELECTED MONUMENTS TO THE GREAT AND THE SMALL

CHAPTER FOUR

HIGHLIGHTS OF

THE EOUESTRIAN MONUMENT IN AMERICA

CHAPTER FIVE

SENTRIES  DOUGHBOYS, AND GI JOES

CHAPTER SIX

INSIGHTS INTO THE AMERICAN PORTRAIT

CHAPTER SEVEN

THE ART OF THE MEDAL

CHAPTER EIGHT

THE FIRST AMERICANS REMEMBERED

CHAPTER NINE

EVERYDAY PEOPLE DOING EVERYDAY THINGS

CHAPTER TEN

TWENTIETH- CENTURY TRANSFIGURATIONS

NOTES TO THE TEXT

INDEX

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