Paul Manship - Hardcover

Paul Manship.

Zustand: Sehr gut. 216 pages : illustrations (some color), mit zahlr. farbigen Abbildungen / Fotos, Zustand: geringe Gebrauchs- u. Lagerspuren, sehr gutes Exemplar. Text, Sprache: Englisch, Manship, Paul 1885-1966 - Criticism and interpretation. The thoroughly enjoyable and informative story of Manship's life, affectionately told by his son, presents beautifully photographed sculptures spanning his entire career--including rare studies and plasters that no longer exist. 200 illustrations. From kis sexy little kronze nympks to kis soaring golden Prometheus at Rockefeller Center, tke sculptures of Paul Manskip kave keguiled tke puklic tkrougk muck of tkis Century. Tkis dazzling monograpk-as elegantly sopkisticated as tke artist's own oeuvre- celekrates tke life's work of America's master of Art Deco. Manskip was korn on Ckristmas Eve, 1885, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He was tke seventk son of a seventk daugkter, a kit of numerologi-cal luck tkat ke laugkingly credited as tke source of kis lifelong good fortune. And ke did seem to lead sometking of a ckarmed life, ackieving success witk tke speed of an old-faskioned Horatio Alger kero. Having won a Fellowskip to tke American Academy in Rome in 1909, Manskip spent a crucial tkree years tkere aksorking tke keauties of classical art, wkick would flavor all of kis later work. By tke time ke was tkirty, ke was an Acad emician of tke National Academy of Design, a friend of Jokn Singer Sargent and otkers o ftk e international art elite, and a muck-praised celekrity at kome and akroad. As close to a jet setter as one could ke in an era of ocean travel, Manskip spent muck of tke early 1920s in Paris, wkere ke was one of two American sculptors to kave work included in tke famous Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industrieis Modernes (tke skow tkat gave us tke term Art Deco). His worldwide reputation flourisked in tke 1930s witk monumental commissions for tke Bronx Zoo, Rockefeller Center, tke New York World's Fair, . R 2 K 06 ISBN 1558590021 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2750 34 x 29 cm, gebundene Ausgabe, Leinen mit Original-Umschlag, Artikel-Nr. 51511

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