CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE/INSTALLATIO NS Contemporary artists or sculptors: • use traditional sculptural techniques of carving, casting and constructing to create their three- dimensional objects • challenge the idea of the permanent, precious art object.
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CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE/INSTALLATIONS Contemporary artists or sculptors: use traditional sculptural techniques of carving, casting and constructing to create.
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CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE/INSTALLA
TIONSContemporary artists or sculptors:• use traditional sculptural techniques of
carving, casting and constructing to create their three-dimensional objects
• challenge the idea of the permanent, precious art object.
INSTALLATIONS
• An installation is a method of display whereby objects are arranged for a particular space.
• One of the newer installation methods is the transient sculptural form.
• Transient sculptural forms must be documented because they do not last.
CONTEMPORARY SCULPTURE/INSTALLATIONS
Callum Morton’s Habitat depictsthe following characteristics:
• a sculptural installation resembling a scaled-down architectural model
• added lights and sound, suggesting there are people within it
• reality versus illusion
• Postmodern aspects in its questioning of our values and the way we live
• a Postmodern appropriation of a modernist building.