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Digital technologies have profoundly impacted the arts and expanded
the field of sculpture since the 1950s. Art history, however,
continues to pay little attention to sculptural works that are
conceived and ‘materialized’ using digital technologies. How
can we rethink the artistic medium in relation to our technological
present and its historical precursors? A number of theoretical
approaches discuss the implications of the so-called ‘Aesthetics
of the Digital’, referring, above all, to screen-based phenomena.
For the first time, this publication brings together international
and trans-historical research perspectives to explore how digital
technologies re-configure the understanding of sculpture and the
sculptural leading into the (post-)digital age. Up-to-date research
on digital technologies’ expansion of the concept of sculpture
Linking historical sculptural debates with discourse on the new
media and (post-)digital culture
In Puritan New England, with its abiding concern for things not of
this world and its distrust of forms and ceremonies, one art
flourished: the symbolic art of mortuary monument stonecarvers.
This carefully researched, beautifully illustrated work was the
first to consider this art in depth as a meaningful
aesthetic-spiritual expression. It is reissued for today's readers,
with a new preface outlining changes in the field since the book
appeared in 1966.
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