This investigation relies on a rash bet: to write the biography of
two of the most famous statues in Antiquity, the Tyrannicides.
Representing the murderers of the tyrant Hipparchus in full action,
these statues erected on the Agora of Athens have been in turn
worshipped, outraged, and imitated. They have known hours of glory
and moments of hardships, which have transformed them into true
icons of Athenian democracy.
The subject of this book is the... more...
Stretching lengths of yarn across interior spaces, American
artist Fred Sandback (1943–2003) created expansive works that
underscore the physical presence of the viewer. This book, the
first major study of Sandback, explores the full range of his
art, which not only disrupts traditional conceptions of material
presence, but also stages an ethics of interaction between object
and observer.
Drawing on Sandback’s substantial... more...
The work of German sculptor Isa Genzken is brilliantly receptive
to the ever-shifting conditions of modern life. In this first
book devoted to the artist, Lisa Lee reflects on Genzken’s
tendency to think across media, attending to sculptures,
photographs, drawings, and films from the entire span of her
four-decade career, from student projects in the mid-1970s to
recent works seen in Genzken’s studio.
... more...
This book examines a famous series of sculptures by the German
artist Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783) known as his
"Character Heads." These are busts of human heads, highly
unconventional for their time, representing strange, often
inexplicable facial expressions. Scholars have struggled to
explain these works of art. Some have said that Messerschmidt was
insane, while others suggested that he tried to illustrate some
sort of... more...
Born near the Tuscan province of Lucca in 1815, Domenico
Brucciani became the most important and prolific maker of plaster
casts in nineteenth-century Britain. This first substantive study
shows how he and his business used public exhibitions, emerging
museum culture and the nationalisation of art education to
monopolise the market for reproductions of classical and
contemporary sculpture.
Based in Covent Garden in London, Brucciani... more...
This book examines the impact since 1600 of out migration from
Scotland on the homeland, the migrants, and the destinations in
which they settled. It does so through a focus on the
under-researched themes of slavery, cross-cultural encounters,
economics, war, tourism, and the modern diaspora since 1945.
In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical
innovation "cartographic abstraction" – a material modality of
thought and experience that is produced through cartographic
techniques of depiction. Reddleman closely engages with selected
artworks (by contemporary artists such as Joyce Kozloff, Layla
Curtis, and Bill Fontana) and theories in each chapter.
Reconfiguring the Foucauldian underpinning of critical
cartography... more...
Rain machines; alarmed kosher pickle jars filled with gemstones;
replica corn flakes boxes; ‘disco décor’; 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, varied array of sculptural work made by Andy Warhol between... more...
In recent years the intersections between art history and
archaeology have become the focus of critical analysis by both
disciplines. Contemporary sculpture has played a key role in this
dialogue. The essays in this volume, by art historians,
archaeologists and artists, take the intersection between sculpture
and archaeology as the prelude for analysis, examining the
metaphorical and conceptual role of archaeology as subject matter
for sculptors, and... more...
This volume includes all of the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman
votive reliefs found to date in the excavations of the Athenian
Agora. In addition to providing a catalogue of the reliefs arranged
according to their subjects, the author treats the history of their
discovery, their production and workmanship, iconography, and
function. A large part of the study is devoted to discussion of the
original contexts of the reliefs, in an attempt to determine... more...