Romanesque Sculpture in Italy (1954) is an analysis of the resurgence of sculpture in Italy. The variety of the political, economic and racial conditions which existed towards the end of the eleventh century led to a corresponding diversity in the r...Daugiau...
Taking up questions of artists materials and technical processes currently at the vanguard of art-historical scholarship, this book studies the contiguity and interchange of workshop methods in the linked fabrication of both ephemeral and preparator...Daugiau...
This study considers the performativity of sound-producing sculptures made in the twenty-first century through a cultural history of certain works....Daugiau...
Sculpted Ambiances in Africana Landscape centers on ambiance as it affects the expanded sculptural field, particularly filling a gap in aesthetics left by a lack of focus on sculptures and installations in the Africana world and elsewhere....Daugiau...
The original research in this book analyzes the artistic activity of Santi Gucci (1533-c. 1600), a Florentine sculptor active in Poland in the second half of the sixteenth century, and his workshop....Daugiau...
This study examines the five extant large Imperial cameos of the Early Roman Empire as a coherent whole, revealing that these gemstones were a referential group with complex interrelationships....Daugiau...
The first scholarly monograph devoted exclusively to this vital work of contemporary public art, this book examines Maya Lins Confluence Project through the lens of environmental humanities and indigenous studies....Daugiau...
This monograph explores the social constructs surrounding artistic production in early modern Iberia through the lenses of gender and class by examining the rarely-considered contribution of creative women in Spain and Portugal between 1550 and 1700...Daugiau...
In four chronologically organized chapters, this study traces the conceptual dependence and deep connectivity among Claes Oldenburgs poetry, sculpture, films, and performance art between 1956 and 1965....Daugiau...
This book explores the ways Robert Smithsons art revealed and defamiliarized the constructs of rational reality in order to allow radically speculative alternatives to emerge....Daugiau...
This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analysing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidence for visual material that has been lost due to systematic, and legally sanctioned, acts of erasure....Daugiau...
This book investigates how British contemporary artists who work with clay have managed, in the space of a single generation, to take ceramics from niche-interest craft to the pristine territories of the contemporary art gallery....Daugiau...
This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelos well-known masterpiece, the Vatican Pietà, by tracing the shifting meaning of the work of art over time....Daugiau...
This book elaborates on the social and cultural phenomenon of national schools and national identity during the nineteenth century, via the less-studied field of sculpture and using Belgium as a case study....Daugiau...
This book explores the issue of ecclesiastical authority in Romanesque sculpture on the portals and other sculpted gateways of churches in the north Italian region of Lombardy....Daugiau...
This book analyzes social practice art that has a political agenda. Contributing scholars define this practice, provide historical context, and consider contemporary social practice art that addresses the current volatile political context....Daugiau...