Rethinking about Surfaces on Modern sculpture

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02136
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Fine art history
• Research Institution: Shinshu University
• Principal Investigator: KANAI Tadashi 信州大学, 学術研究院人文科学系, 教授 (10456494)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 新古典主義彫刻 / 彫刻の表面性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Although the interest in the surface of Antonio Canova’s sculpture was revealed very well at the beginning of the 19th century, his followers were almost unconcerned with the sculptural surface. The reasons can be supposed as follows: 1. the influence of "purismo," 2. radical change of the image distribution by museum and photography, 3. rationalized education system by academies, 4. conservatism of the restoration period (censorship to nude), 5. fever to the monument. These aspects will constitute the condition of modern-contemporary sculpture. Therefore, various interests in surfaces in modern-contemporary sculpture might be recognized as the objection or incongruity to the aspects.

Free Research Field

美学美術史学