Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals: Epics in miniature 1
Hellenistic Bronzes: A revolution in sculpture 8
Netherlandish Boxwood Rosary Beads: Medieval marvels 12
The Kamakura Period: A renaissance in Asia 17
Bertoldo di Giovanni: The missing link 21
Michelangelo: Is it or isn't it? 28
Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Fingers moving at the speed of thought 31
Jean-Antoine Houdon: The prehensile eye 38
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt: About face 44
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Pressuring the old order 47
Auguste Rodin: The indispensable man 54
Edgar Degas: The "Little Dancer"-An impression indelible in wax 65
Medardo Rosso: Fugitive figures 69
Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Reinventing the American monument 72
Frederic Remington et al.: A cast of the American character 80
Constantin Brancusi I: Rethinking the figure 84
Constantin Brancusi II: Material matters 93
Jacob Epstein et al.: Bright-eyed Banish moderns 102
Charles Sargeant Jagger: An unblinking view of war 110
Naum Gabo: Utopian visions 114
Pablo Picasso I: "Bull's Head" (1942)-A magical metamorphosis of the ordinary 127
Pablo Picasso II: Shuttling between dimensions 131
Julio González: Modern art's bright flame 143
Alberto Giacometti: An artist renewed 147
Henry Moore I: The artist as critic 157
Henry Moore II: Shelter scenes and other drawings 171
Anne Truitt: Minimal form, maximum feeling 176
Richard Serra I: Paperweight 179
Richard Serra II: Sculpture in the active voice 188
H. C. Westermann: The absurdity of the absurd 192
Mark di Suvero: Playground populist 195
William Tucker: Speaking "the language of sculpture" 204
Martin Puryear: The meticulous and the magical 213
Jack Whitten: Ritual objects 217
Rachel Whiteread: Where memories dwell 224
Jeff Koons: Avatar of anew order 227