Sèvres extraordinaire!: sculpture from 1740 until today

Abstract

"The first large-scale, English-language publication to explore the production of sculpture created by the famed French manufactory from its eighteenth-century origins to the present"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

Bard Graduate Center director's foreword / Susan Weber -- Sèvres et Limoges, Manufacture et Musées nationaux director's foreword / René-Jacques Mayer -- Editor's note / Charlotte Vignon -- Preface / Tamara Préaud -- Introduction. French sculpture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: historical context and stylistic references / Guilhem Scherf -- Sculpture in France from the Belle Époque to Pop Art / Florence Rionnet -- Part I: General considerations. Chapter 1. Materials and production / Tamara Préaud and Soazig Guilmin -- Chapter 2. Salaries and prices / Tamara Préaud -- Chapter 3. Imitations, copies, overmoldings, and marks / Tamara Préaud -- Part II: History of Sculpture at Sèvres. Chapter 4. The eighteenth century / Tamara Préaud -- Chapter 5. The directorship of Alexandre Brongniart / Tamara Préaud -- Chapter 6. The second half of the nineteenth century, 1848-91 / Tamara Préaud -- Chapter 7. The twentieth century / Tamara Préaud -- Chapter 8. Two decades of contemporary art at Sèvres, 2000-20 / Judith Cernogora -- Chapter 9. Sales and deliveries after 1941 / Soazig Guilmin -- Checklist of the exhibition -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Photographic credits.