Introduction
Silvia Bottinelli (Tufts University, USA) and Sharon Hecker (Independent Scholar, Italy)
An Introduction to the History of Lead
Christian Warren (TBC)
On Lead, Painting, and Alchemy
Spike Bucklow (TBC)
The Rise of the Market for Lead Garden Sculpture in Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century England
Matthew Craske (Oxford Brookes University, USA)
In the Backyard at Burcroft (1938-1939): Henry Moore and the European Avant-Garde
Rowan Bailey (TBC)
The Weakness of Lead: Materiality and Modern American Sculpture
Marin R. Sullivan (Independent Art Historian and Curator, USA)
Due Process (Richard Serra)
Jeffrey Weiss (Institute of the Fine Arts, New York University, USA)
Disgraced Materials: Vitality and Decay in Lynda Benglis’ Quartered Meteor
Luke Naessens (Princeton University, USA)
Gilberto Zorio and the Physics/Poetics of Lead
Elizabeth Mangini (California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA)
Stop-Motion: Lead in Arte Povera
Sharon Hecker (Independent Scholar, Italy)
‘Mankind needs some lead so as to be somewhat heavier’: Beuys’ Heavy Sculpture from Cradle to Grave
Claudia Mesch (Arizona State University, USA)
An Interview with Remo Salvadori
Silvia Bottinelli (Tufts University, USA) and Sharon Hecker (Independent Scholar, Italy)
Lead: A Loaded Material. Kounellis, Kiefer, and Gormley in the Collection of the Israel Museum
Adina Kamien-Kazhdan (Senior Curator of Modern Art at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel) and Sharon Tager, (Head of Conservation, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel)
Lead and the New British Sculpture
Jon Wood (Head of Research, Henry Moore Institute, UK)
Organizing Against an Invisible Threat: Lead Contamination and Gardening in the Practice of Mel Chin and Futurefarmers
Silvia Bottinelli (Tufts University, USA)
An Interview with Daniela Rivera
Silvia Bottinelli (Tufts University, USA) and Sharon Hecker (Independent Scholar, Italy)
Index