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A monograph on sculptor Titsa Chrysohoides (1906-1990), who was one of the first women artists in Greece occupied exclusively with the art of sculpture. She also was involved in establishing the more “classical” movement of Greek sculpture in the second half of the twentieth century, using an intellectual yet sensitive interpretation of the modernist idiom of the French postmodernist artists. She was taught by Robert Wlérick and Aristide Maillol, who drew away from Rodin’s dynamic, expressive and multi-level sculpture, investigating the expressive capacity of measured, organic and sensual expression. Using as her starting point the representation of women, the sculptural vocabulary of Chrysohoides was rooted in the directness and immediacy of her forms; an idealisation and reduction to a general type; the principles of solid form; the predominance of volume over space; structural clarity, symmetry and measure.  Within this framework, her oeuvre and her life act as starting points, in an examination of issues that concern the “more classical” of the trends in modern art, but also the artistic and professional careers of women artists in Greece.
This book showcases 85 sculptures, models and designs; provides an index of 205 works starting from 1932 and up to her death; and provides a chronology as well as a list of publications.