Alfred Stevens: Master of Design

比利时画家阿尔弗雷德·史蒂文斯 设计大师1817-1875

出版商： 伯灵顿出版社

出版日期 : 2025年4月8日

语言 : 英语

印刷长度 : 248 页

ISBN-10 : ‎ 191623786X

ISBN-13 : ‎ 978-1916237865

商品重量 : 3.75 磅

尺寸 : 10 x 1.25 x 12 英寸

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

首本关于英国雕塑家、设计师兼画家阿尔弗雷德·史蒂文斯的著作。阿尔弗雷德·史蒂文斯在世时（1817-1875），鲜为人知。然而，在他英年早逝，仍在为圣保罗大教堂的惠灵顿纪念碑工作时，情况发生了改变。当时，人们强烈抗议，认为如此天才的艺术家竟然在漫长的工程过程中受到工程办公室如此严厉的对待。在一场主要由同行艺术家发起的运动的推动下，他声名鹊起。从那时到二战爆发，他被誉为英国有史以来最伟大的人文主义艺术家之一，这一评价主要基于他宏大的具象艺术作品和精湛的绘图技巧。然而，随着20世纪初现代主义的兴起，他开始被视为仅仅是意大利文艺复兴艺术的模仿者。他的作品被认为是这场已然消亡的运动的最后喘息。

然而，十九世纪末二十世纪初，无论是赞扬他作品的人，还是随后贬低他作品的人，都没有意识到他是一位伟大的创新者，在十九世纪英国艺术的发展中发挥了至关重要的作用。他通过两种方式实现了这一目标：一方面，他设计了诸如炉灶、彩绘装饰和纪念性雕塑等与周围建筑形式相呼应的物品，为世纪末兴起的新雕塑指明了方向；另一方面，他模糊了当时普遍划分的“纯艺术”和“装饰艺术”之间的界限，成为工艺美术运动的先驱。由于文献资料匮乏，散落在英国和意大利的档案馆中，对他作品的研究一直受到阻碍，这也是自休·斯坦努斯的《阿尔弗雷德·史蒂文斯》（1891年）以来再无专著的原因之一。

The first book on the English sculptor, designer, and painter Alfred Stevens.Few people were aware of Alfred Stevens’s art during his lifetime (1817–1875), but following his early death while still at work on the Wellington Monument in St Paul’s Cathedral, this changed. There was a furious outcry that a man of such genius should have been treated so harshly by the Office of Works during the protracted course of that project. As a result of a campaign, largely led by fellow artists, he became widely known, and between then and the outbreak of the Second World War he was hailed as one of greatest Humanist artists Britain had ever known, a judgement largely based on his grander works of figurative art and his superb draughtsmanship. But then, with the rise of Modernism in the early twentieth century, he came to be seen as someone who had merely aped the art of the Italian Renaissance. His work was dismissed as the last gasp of a movement that was now dead.

What those who extolled his work in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, as well as those who denigrated it in the years that followed, failed to see, however, was that he was a great innovator, someone who had played a crucial part in the development of British art in the nineteenth century. This was achieved in two ways: on the one hand, by designing objects such as stoves, painted decoration, and monumental sculpture whose form was linked to that of the surrounding architecture, he pointed the way to the New Sculpture that was to emerge at the end of the century; on the other, by blurring the line that was then universally drawn between “fine” and “decorative” art, he acted as a precursor of the Arts and Crafts Movement.The study of his work has been hampered by the paucity of documents, scattered in archives in England and Italy, which is one reason why there has been no monograph since Hugh Stannus’s Alfred Stevens (1891).

特蕾莎·斯莱登是维多利亚时代建筑和艺术的权威。她曾担任维多利亚时代学会和陵墓与纪念碑信托基金的董事，也是后者的创始成员。她的出版物包括《教堂，1870-1914》（维多利亚时代建筑与设计研究，第三卷）。斯莱登也曾在《伯灵顿杂志》上发表文章。

Teresa Sladen is an authority on Victorian architecture and art. She has served as a director of The Victorian Society and The Mausolea and Monuments Trust and was a founder member of the latter. Her publications include Churches, 1870–1914 (Studies in Victorian Architecture and Design, Volume 3). Sladen has also published in Burlington Magazine.