تحولات الشكل النحتي الانكليزي بعد الحرب العالمية الثانية == The Transformations of The English Sculpture Form In The Post - War II
Author name:
جعفر صادق عايد الربيعي
Supervisor name:
مرتضى عبود شهاب حداد
General topic:
Fine Arts
Specific topic:
Sculpture
Degree:
Master
University:
University of Baghdad - College Of Fine Arts - Fine Arts Department
Language:
Arabic
University location:
Baghdad
First pages:
18T1161 - p.pdf
Abstract:
The theme of the study "Transformations of the English Sculpture Form in the Post - War" is conducted through tackling the most important variables and changes in the sculpture form during the last fifty years of the twentieth century and the renewal of ideas and concepts for the new generation of British sculptors. That was reflected in their works. The esis includes four chapters : Chapter One includes the problem of study which can be summed up in the following question : what is the secret of the great transformation which effected the English Sculpture Form in the Post - War?. In addition to the importance and the need for the study. The research is limited to the study of the work of the English Sculpture in all form and the various raw and techniques during the period extending from 1950 to 2000. It also includes the specification of the main terms used.Chapter Two includes the main inquiries; first inquiry is a historical brief to the English Sculpture from sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It tackles the roots of the English Sculpture through the period with the influences and tendencies. The second inquiry was subdivided into two axis the first is about the Modern English Sculpture in the 20th century until the World War II, while the second is about the methods and techniques and forms that have prevailed for almost fifty years from 1900 up to 1950. The second inquiry is based on the contemporary English Sculpture from the WWII until the end of the century. It includes a study of the most important postwar sculptors. The third inquiry includes the effective influences in the transformation of the contemporary English Sculpture form. It is subsided into four axes : the first is about the liberation of the artists and art from the domination of the authority which focuses on the artists' freedom of expressionaway from the domination of authority of the society like the royal and church. The second focuses on the effect of WWII on the conception and ideas for the sculptors, while the third is concerned with the influences of the modern contemporary European and American sculpture on the form of English sculpture. The inquiry concentrates on the most important European and American sculptors investors of the new artistic schools on the British sculpture. The last inquiry has concentrated on the effect of economy and technological progress and the consumption culture in the British society on the form of English sculpture.The third chapter includes the procedure of study which is the research community and sample and what are the reasons for choosing the sample that attained 21 sculpture models as well as the justification for selecting the research community in addition to the procedure of the study which is the descriptive analytical followed in the analysis of the works. Chapter four includes a the results and the conclusions of the study the most important are : 1 - the British sculpture of the postwar period did not abide to a certain criteria, a style or trend or artistic school, but it varied in form from one sculptor to another as the sample show.2 - Most of the works of sculptors were from modern raw materials which appeared in the postwar period. The War was a reason for the appearance for such raw materials and shaped them and then refined them in sculpture, taking them as a source of expression.3 - The cases which interacted with the artist's self and manifested in their sculpture works for the new generation of British sculpture of the postwar period creating atmosphere of (conception, absurdism, spontaneity, freedom, probability, questioning, fear and anxiety and horror of a Third World War). All that was reflected in strange forms and was adopted according to the concept and the mechanism of expression for each sculptor
