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Revival and invention : sculpture through its material histories

By Martina , Clerbois , Sébastien; Droth

Book information

Publisher
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Year
2010
ISBN
3039115529, 978-3-03911-552-5, 978-3-0353-0135-9, 3035301352
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19853423 bytes)
Edition
1st New edition
Pages
274\336
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Sculpture materials. ART -- Sculpture & Installati

Description

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

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