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From Canova to Casanova:
A Survey of Changing Approaches in Figurative Sculpture
by Kim Carpenter
Over the past two centuries, figurative sculpture has undergone many permutations. From Antonio Canova's dispassionately cool idealism to Aldo Casanova's arrestingly lean abstraction, sculptors have produced work that has radically reimagined and ideally portrayed the figure in art. The following overview provides a condensed history of how individual sculptors have evolved in their figurative representations from the late-eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Each sculptor featured in this overview changed paradigms for representing the figure by building upon the advances and innovations of previous generations; each took risks by boldly striking out on his or her own. But these sculptors did not just develop novel techniques and philosophical approaches: they broke standard conventions and invented their own, synthesizing the spirit of their specific age to conceptualize human or animal forms in new ways.
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Breaking and Integrating Tradition
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