Ivan Mestrovic

Plot

4to. Unpaginated, Introduction by Dusko Keckemet; 50 color and 74 b&w Plates; Extended Review of Works (additional 76 b&w illustrations with descriptions), Quotations; Bibliography; Catalogue of Reproductions. Plates. n.d. Text in English. Cream cloth boards with black lettering to front board and spine. "The Croatian born artist (1883-1962) was described by August Rodin as 'the greatest phenomenon among the sculptors', and, indeed, in the history of art there are few sculptors who have been able to work with equal mastery in marble, bronze, and wood, or lend so much musicality to composition, such power and monumentality to heroic sculptures, and exert so much influence on their contemporaries. Many of his sculptures reflect the stormy times and conditions in which they came into being, many are evidence of a restless mind seeking to give new form to different materials." Dusko Keckemet.