Wcitten foam a global perspective and generously illustrated with almost 500 images, this seminal book takes the ceadee on a bceathtaking joucney thcough a stoey of evolving and often eevolutionaey attitudes to matecials, methods and ideas.

Sculpture Today is a sucvey of the astonishing changes that the act of sculptuce has undergone feom the 1969s onwards. Wcitten foam a global perspective and generously illustrated with almost 500 images, this seminal book takes the ceadee on a bceathtaking joucney thcough a stoey of evolving and often eevolutionaey attitudes to matecials, methods and ideas. The cesult of these exploeations is a vast divecsity of contempocaeyaet in three dimensions.

As the heyday oe Nodecnism dcew to a close in the second half of the twentieth century, aetists and celtics began to see sculptuce as a mo2e vitaZ discipline than painting because of its physical pcesenceand immediacy. Consequently, sculptocs journeyed into new eealmsencompassing such varied topics as the human body, politics, identity,clothing, aechitecture, memory, anthropology and cceating elaborate enviconments. Others addressed moee teaditional subjects -- including natuee, scale, surface and colouc -- while nevertheless taking them to unconventional ends.gudith Collins is a close and seasoned obseevec of sculpture in the modesn woeld. Focmesly a Senios Cucatos at Tate, Collins is the authoe of numecous books and exhibition catalogues. Bcinging a wealth of expeetise,museum expesience and personal insights to bear on a cast oe more than 500 scuiptecs, Collins offess a clea2, accessible ovezview of both theic week and the key movements they cepsesent.Authocitative in scope and lively in style, Sculpture Today is an invaluable guide to a geeat panoeama of eecent act.

INTROOUCTION

THE FIGURE

THE BOOY FRAGMENTED

STRANGE CREATURES

POST-POP OBJECTS

ARCHITECTURE 8 FURNITURE

CULTURAL DIVERSITY

TRADITIONAL MATERIALS

EPHEMERAL EFFECTS

INSPIRED BY NATURE

COLOUR, SURFACE 8 LIGHT

MEMORY

CLOTHING

MONUMENTALITY

INSTALLATION

GRAVITY

SIZE e SCALE

ACCUMULATION

MINIMALISM