Full Description
By foregrounding the overlaps between sculpture and the decorative, this volume of essays offers a model for a more integrated form of art history writing. Through distinct case studies, from a seventeenth-century Danish altarpiece to contemporary British ceramics, it brings to centre stage makers, objects, concepts and spaces that have been marginalized by the enforcement of boundaries within art and design discourse. These essays challenge the classed, raced and gendered categories that have structured the histories and languages of art and its making. Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and practice of sculpture and the decorative arts and the methodologies of art history.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Sculpture and the decorative: towards a more integrated mode of art history writing, Imogen Hart (University of California-Berkeley, USA) and Claire Jones (University of Birmingham, UK)
2. "Exulting and adorning it in exuberant strains": Music, figuration and ornamentation in Abel Schrøder's altarpiece (Skt Morten in Næstved, Denmark), Margit Thøfner (Independent Scholar)
3. Galathea: Ships, sculpture and the state in Golden Age Denmark, Michael Hatt (University of Warwick, UK)
4. An allegory of civic virtue: Sculpture and ornament in St George's Hall, Liverpool, Katie Faulkner (Courtauld Institute of Art, UK)
5. Sculpture and the decorative in fin-de-siècle Brussels: Women as creators and consumers, Marjan Sterckx (Ghent University, Belgium)
6. "Sacred stones guarded about with dragons": Welsh national identity in William Goscombe John's Corn Hirlas (1898), Melanie Polledri (Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales)
7. Sculpture and the decorative at the Scottish National War Memorial, Imogen Hart (University of California-Berkeley, USA)
8. Ornament and monument in German sculpture, 1910-1930: Milly Steger and Renée Sintenis, Nina Lübbren (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)
9. Modernist sculpture and the decorative: Henri Laurens with Robert Mallet-Stevens and Le Corbusier, Anna Ferrari (Royal Academy London, UK)
10. The decorative arts as found object: Converging domains for contemporary sculpture, Lisa Wainwright (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA)
11. Gross domestic product: Contemporary British ceramics and the subversion of the monument, Laura Gray (Independent Art Historian)
12. Fabrication and failure: Hacking the decorative in contemporary British art, Bridget O'Gorman (Artist and Researcher)
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