Revival and Invention: Sculpture Through Its Material Histories

ISBN-13: 9783039115525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 274 str.

Clerbois, Sébastien

Opis

Materials may seem to be sculpture s most obvious aspect. Traditionally seen as a means to an end, and frequently studied in terms of technical procedures, their intrinsic meaning often remains unquestioned. Yet materials comprise a field rich in meaning, bringing into play a wide range of issues crucial to our understanding of sculpture. This book places materials at the centre of our approach to sculpture, examining their symbolic and aesthetic language, their abstract and philosophical associations, and the ways in which they reveal the political, economic and social contexts of sculptural practice. Spanning a chronology from antiquity through to the end of the nineteenth century, the essays collected in this book uncover material properties as fundamental to artistic intentionality."

Spis treści

Contents: Sébastien Clerbois/Martina Droth: Introduction - Michael Cole: The Cult of Materials - Carol Mattusch: The Privilege of Bronze: Modern Perception of Classical Materials - Fabio Barry: A Whiter Shade of Pale: Relative and Absolute White in Roman Sculpture and Architecture - Martin Hirsch: The Late Gothic Clay Sculpture of Bavaria - Maarten Delbeke: Matter Without Qualities? Wax in Giacomo Vivio's Discorso of 1590 - Emilie Passignat: Twisting Marble: Observations on the Figura Serpentinata and its Applications - Philippe Malgouyres: Coloured Stones, Sculpted Objects: Subjects for Sculpture - Malcolm Baker: Shifting Materials, Shifting Values? Contemporary Responses to the Materials of Eighteenth-Century Sculpture - Catherine Chevillot: Nineteenth-Century Sculpteurs and Mouleurs: Developments in Theory and Practice - Sébastien Clerbois: The Revival of Ivory Sculpture in Belgium (1890-1910): The Material in Question.

O autorze

Sébastien Clerbois is Assistant Professor of History of Art at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Martina Droth is Head of Research and Curator of Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, USA.