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Product details
- ISBN 9783039115525
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 155 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 17 Mar 2011
- Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
Martina Droth is Head of Research and Curator of Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art, USA.
