@book{e753147ade0c439c9154f77358c48bd1,
title = "Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe: Seventeenth Century to Contemporary",
abstract = "Sculpture and the decorative meet in all manner of objects, art practices, and contexts. Yet they are largely kept apart in academia, art criticism, exhibitions and museums. By foregrounding the overlaps between sculpture and the decorative, this volume of essays by artists, curators and art historians 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, the book charts the ways in which concepts associated with sculpture and the decorative have been employed and negotiated by practitioners, critics, audiences and historians. Exploring why and how these categories are constructed and contested reveals the various agendas that the shifting relationships between sculpture and the decorative expose and serve to support. Bringing to centre stage makers, objects 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 is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and practice of sculpture and the decorative arts and the methodologies of art history.",
keywords = "Sculpture, Decorative arts",
author = "Margit Th{\o}fner and Michael Hatt and Katie Faulkner and Anna Ferrari and Nina L{\"u}bbren and Bridget O{\textquoteright}Gorman and Melanie Polledri and Marjan Sterckx and Lisa Wainwright and Claire Jones and Imogen Hart and Laura Gray",
editor = "Claire Jones and Imogen Hart",
year = "2020",
month = nov,
day = "26",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781501341250",
series = "Material Culture of Art and Design",
publisher = "Bloomsbury Academic",
edition = "First",
note = "Sculpture and the Decorative Arts session ; Conference date: 08-04-2016 Through 08-04-2016",
}