Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Few art movements have suffered more from stereotypical presentation than Italian Futurism, and Marinetti’s bombastic propaganda has succeeded too well in declaring the Futurist obsessions with speed, violence and Modernity. But, of course, there is much more to the movement than that. The obsession with speed, violence and Modernity is not simply pursued for...

Modernist sculpture, which could roughly be defined chronologically as work produced after Rodin and before the shake-up of sculptural practice in the 1960s and early 1970s, had in its own time, and continues to have, an oddly uncertain status. There is no denying the pervasiveness of the modernist desire to create a new kind of object that would offer a radical alternative to the classicising and monumentalising tendencies of traditional sculpture, and would parallel the rethinking of picturing …