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Typological Classification of Portrait Sculpture as a Contribution to the Research of the Manifestations of Modern Sculpture in Croatia

Typological classification of portrait sculpture as a contribution to research of the manifestations of modern sculpture in Croatia The presentation proposes a typology and typological classification of 20th century portrait sculpture using, as an example, the portrait sculpture of Oscar Nemon (1906-1985) together with examples of portraiture in Croatian modern art. The typology is established according to the following main classification parameters: function, form and content ; location and purpose, as well as by a series of other classification categories and sub-categories that create a branched and intertwined network of typological classification. I propose to investigate the aim and value, as well as the feasibility, of applying this discipline of typological classification, which has yet to be deployed within the methodology of Croatian art history. Is its application meaningful in research of 20th century art – a period of a multiplicity of styles and individual expressions and their fast, sequential, and cyclical shifts? Specifically, does this kind of typology enable art- historical interpretations and is it useful in research of the manifestations of modern sculpture? Does it lead to a better understanding of portrait sculpture of the 20th century, or does it create an unnecessarily complex classification system that becomes a means unto itself? One of the benefits of typological classification of portrait sculpture is that it establishes the thesaurus of specific sculptural concepts and terms – typological classification thus becomes the basis for portrait plastic nomenclature.

Portrait Sculpture, typology, classification

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