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Richly-illustrated consideration of the meaning of the carvings of
non-human beings, from centaurs to eagles, found in ecclesiastical
settings. Representations of monsters and the monstrous are common
in medieval art and architecture, from the grotesques in the
borders of illuminated manuscripts to the symbol of the "green
man", widespread in churches and cathedrals. These mysterious
depictions are frequently interpreted as embodying or mitigating
the fears symptomatic of a "dark age". This book, however,
considers an alternative scenario: in what ways did monsters in
twelfth-century sculpture help audiences envision, perhaps even
achieve, various ambitions? Using examples of Romanesque sculpture
from across Europe, with a focus on France and northern Portugal,
the author suggests that medieval representations of monsterscould
service ideals, whether intellectual, political, religious, and
social, even as they could simultaneously articulate fears; he
argues that their material presence energizes works of art in
paradoxical, even contradictory ways. In this way, Romanesque
monsters resist containment within modern interpretive categories
and offer testimony to the density and nuance of the medieval
imagination. KIRK AMBROSE is Associate Professor & Chair,
Department of Art and Art History, University of Colorado Boulder.
Based on two international conferences held at Cornell University
and the Freie Universitat of Berlin in 2010 and 2015, this volume
is the first ever to explicitly address the destruction of plaster
cast collections of ancient Mediterranean and Western sculpture.
Focusing on Europe, the Americas, and Japan, art historians,
archaeologists and a literary scholar discuss how different museum
and academic traditions - national as well as disciplinary -,
notions of value and authenticity, or colonialism impacted the fate
of collections. The texts offer detailed documentation of degrees
of destruction by spectacular acts of defacement, demolition,
discarding, or neglect. They also shed light on the accompanying
discourses regarding aesthetic ideals, political ideologies,
educational and scholarly practices, or race. With destruction
being understood as a critical part of reception, the histories of
cast collections defy the traditional, homogenous narrative of rise
and decline. Their diverse histories provide critical evidence for
rethinking the use and display of plaster cast collections in the
contemporary moment.
Winner of the Holyer an Gof Award 2022 (Leisure and Lifestyle) An
illustrated guide to one hundred of the finest early Cornish stone
crosses, dating from around AD 900 to 1300. These characteristic
features of the Cornish landscape are splendid examples of their
type, exhibiting a wide geographical spread and a certain
weather-beaten beauty. The medieval stone crosses of Cornwall have
long been objects of curiosity both for residents and visitors.
This is the first ever accessible volume on the subject, combining
detailed description and discussion of the crosses with information
on access, colour images and suggestions for further reading. An
approachable but academically rigorous work, it includes analysis
of the decorative designs and sculptural techniques, accompanied by
high-quality photographs which illustrate the subtleties of each
cross, often hard to discern in situ. Ancient and High Crosses of
Cornwall offers an ideal introduction for the general reader but
will also prove essential to local historians, landscape
historians, archaeologists and anyone working in the area of
Cornish studies or connected with the Cornish diaspora. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47788/NKIP4746
Rain machines; alarmed kosher pickle jars filled with gemstones;
replica corn flakes boxes; 'disco decor'; time capsules; art bombs;
birthday presents; perfume bottles and floating silver pillows that
are clouds; paintings that are also films; museum interventions;
collected and curated projects; expanded performance environments;
holograms. This is a book about the vast array of sculptural work
made by Andy Warhol between 1954 and 1987 - a period that begins
long before the first Pop paintings and ends in the year of his
death. In 3D Warhol, Thomas Morgan Evans argues that Warhol's
engagement with sculpture, and traditional notions of sculpture,
produced 'trespasses', his sculptural work bisected the
expectations, allegiances and values within art historical, and
ultimately social sites of investitute (or territories). This
groundbreaking, original book brings to the forefront a major, but
overlooked aspect of Warhol's oeuvre, providing an essential new
perspective on the artist's legacy.
This book examines Rembrandt Bugatti's fraught personal life, his
position in art history, and the wide-ranging artistic influences
apparent in his works. It discusses the sculptor's innate empathy
for the life of his subjects, revealing a fascinating figure,
independent from yet not unrelated to the artists of his time. This
updated lavishly illustrated publication will be a revelation to
those discovering the artist for the first time. For those already
aware of his brilliant vision and unsurpassed sculptural skills, it
offers a spectacular photographic archive of his works, and much
fresh thinking and research about his career.
Sculptor Claus Bury (b. 1946) has been enhancing public spaces in
Germany for more than four decades with his monumental sculptures,
which by now total more than 100. His canon of forms is comprised
of geometric basic corpuses, such as squares and cubes, triangles
and pyramids, rectangles, rhombuses and segments, which he employs
in a contemporary Archaic style oriented on the antique structures
of Egypt, Greece and Mexico. Bury's sculptures are almost always
accessible, and the contingent changes in perspective do not only
thematise the basic requirements of the human experience of form
and space; they also articulate people's experience in their
surroundings, impressively underpinning Hegel's theory that the
world has a 'house character' and that man is fundamentally a
domestic creature. A spectacular review of Claus Bury's monumental
works in ships, gates, houses, arches, bridges and temples. Text in
English and German.
The nineteen papers in this volume stem from a symposium that
brought together academics, archaeologists, museum curators,
conservators, and a practicing marble sculptor to discuss varying
approaches to restoration of ancient stone sculptures.
Contributors and their subjects include Marion True and Jerry
Podany on changing approaches to conservation; Seymour Howard on
restoration and the antique model; Nancy H. Ramage's case study on
the relationship between a restorer, Vincenzo Pacetti, and his
patron, Luciano Bonaparte; Mette Moltesen on de-restoring and
re-restoring in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek; Miranda Marvin on the
Ludovisi collection; and Andreas Scholl on the history of
restoration of ancient sculptures in the Altes Museum in
Berlin.
The book also features contributions by Elizabeth Bartman,
Brigitte Bourgeois, Jane Fejfer, Angela Gallottini, Sascha
Kansteiner, Giovanna Martellotti, Orietta Rossi Pinelli, Peter
Rockwell, Edmund Southworth, Samantha Sportun, and Markus Trunk.
Charles Rhyne summarizes the themes, approaches, issues, and
questions raised by the symposium.
Hulk Elvis represents for me both Western and Eastern culture, a
sense of a guardian, a protector, that at the same time is capable
of bringing the house down. -Jeff Koons
Joseph de Levis applied his distinctive signature (between 1577 and
1605) to a whole range of fantastic, Mannerist, bronze artefacts,
some 45 in all. They range from large church-bells - some still in
situ - and miniature table-bells, to mortars, inkstands,
perfume-burners, door-knockers, firedogs, statuettes, and even a
portrait-bust. Joseph's sons and nephews continued the family
business into the seventeenth century, signing a similar range of
artefacts in an early Baroque style. This book provides a unique
cross-section of the production of a hard-working and resilient
renaissance foundry. Frequently inscriptions and coats-of-arms
specify his wide-ranging clientele, from civic and church
authorities, to guilds and confraternities (all-important in
society at the time), nobility, merchants and
connoisseur-collectors. Bronzes by the De Levis dynasty are now
dispersed among museums in Europe, the USA and Israel, and in Old
Master collections, notably that of the late Robert H. Smith, whose
foundation purchased in 2002 the eye-catching Ewer from the Salomon
de Rothschild Foundation in Paris for GBP276,000.This well
illustrated catalogue raisonne is important both art-historically
and from the perspective of the Jewish Diaspora in Renaissance
Italy.
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For more than a century, American communities erected monuments to
western pioneers. Although many of these statues receive little
attention today, the images they depict - sturdy white men, saintly
mothers, and wholesome pioneer families - enshrine prevailing
notions of American exceptionalism, race relations, and gender
identity. Pioneer Mother Monuments is the first book to delve into
the long and complex history of remembering, forgetting, and
rediscovering pioneer monuments. In this book, historian Cynthia
Culver Prescott combines visual analysis with a close reading of
primary-source documents. Examining some two hundred monuments
erected in the United States from the late nineteenth century to
the present, Prescott begins her survey by focusing on the earliest
pioneer statues, which celebrated the strong white men who settled
- and conquered - the West. By the 1930s, she explains, when gender
roles began shifting, new monuments came forth to honor the Pioneer
Mother. The angelic woman in a sunbonnet, armed with a rifle or a
Bible as she carried civilization forward - an iconic figure -
resonated particularly with Mormon audiences. While interest in
these traditional monuments began to wane in the postwar period,
according to Prescott, a new wave of pioneer monuments emerged in
smaller communities during the late twentieth century. Inspired by
rural nostalgia, these statues helped promote heritage tourism. In
recent years, Americans have engaged in heated debates about
Confederate Civil War monuments and their implicit racism. Should
these statues be removed or reinterpreted? Far less attention,
however, has been paid to pioneer monuments, which, Prescott
argues, also enshrine white cultural superiority - as well as
gender stereotypes. Only a few western communities have reexamined
these values and erected statues with more inclusive imagery.
Blending western history, visual culture, and memory studies,
Prescott's pathbreaking analysis is enhanced by a rich selection of
color and black-and-white photographs depicting the statues along
with detailed maps that chronologically chart the emergence of
pioneer monuments.
Winner of the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award from the
Arts Council of the African Studies Association The Benue River
Valley is the source of some of the most abstract, dramatic, and
inventive sculpture in sub-Saharan Africa. A vast region, the
Valley extends from the heart of present-day Nigeria eastward to
its border with Cameroon, and is home to a large number of ethnic
and linguistic groups, all of whom have produced sculptures that
are remarkable for their variety. This book brings together
figurative wood sculptures and ceramic vessels, masks, and
elaborate bronze and iron regalia drawn from public and private
collections in Europe and the United States, selected to exemplify
important typologies within the region, along with many historical
photographs. The 18 contributors demonstrate that the stylistic
tendencies were constantly evolving due to cultural exchanges,
mutual influences, and other points of contact in an area that like
the Benue River itself was historically in a state of flux. These
objects speak to us not only through their superb formal qualities
but also through the circumstances of their being rooted in a
turbulent past, situated between war and colonization.
With an engaging text by renowned Michelangelo scholar William E.
Wallace, Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting,
Architecture brings together in one exquisite volume the powerful
sculptures, the awe-inspiring paintings, and the classical
architectural works of one of the greatest artists of all time.
Including everything from his sculptures Pietàs and David to
his beautiful paintings of the Sistine Chapel and the Doni Tondo,
the book provides an opportunity to view Michelangelo’s work as
never before, and to more fully understand the artist who, through
his work, spoke of his life and times. The frescoes are specially
printed on onion skin paper to recreate the actual appearance of
light reflecting off of the plaster walls. The stunning
black-and-white photography of the sculptures is printed in four
colors to bring out the rich details of the marble.
This new and updated edition adds new figures as well as historic
documents. Of particular interest is the discovery of the long-lost
marble figure Polar Bear last seen over 75 years ago in Paris,
where it was exhibited for the first and last time at the 1943
Salon des Artistes Francais. Accompanying images of this important
discovery are presented in this edition for the very first time.
Over 26 years ago the first publication of Chiparus: Master of Art
Deco brought this artist into the public eye. His name, lost in
records and catalogues, was rejuvenated by Alberto Shayo's
rediscovery of his works, effectively bringing artist and oeuvre
back to life. The book dwells on the sources and inspiration of the
Art Deco movement, with particular emphasis on sculptures created
by Demetre Chiparus. Contents: The Early Years; Development of the
Art Deco Style; The New Woman; Chryselephantine Sculpture; Chiparus
and the Art Deco Aesthetic; The Polar Bear; The Death of Chiparus;
Vintage Images; Notes; Plates; Paintings by Chiparus; Care of
Chryselephantine Sculpture; Fakes and Reproductions; Bibliography.
Also available by Alberto Shayo: Roland Paris: The Art Deco Jester
King ISBN 9781851498239 Statuettes of the Art Deco Period ISBN
9781851498246
This catalogue presents fourteen early sculptures by the late
artist, many of which had never before been shown in the United
States. Documented in vivid colour photographs, these exuberant
sculptures depict Anthony Caro's decision to bypass
representational imagery, and to use bright colours to synthesize
the bolted and welded metal parts that replaced it. Along with
installation shots and historical photographs, this vibrant book
includes a brand-new essay from Tim Marlow that tracks Caro's
development as a sculptor, as well as Rosalind Krauss's 1967 Art
International article on the artist and the nature of sculpture.
This catalogue is published in conjunction with Caro's 2015 show at
Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills.
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