TY - BOOK
T1 - Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe
T2 - Sculpture and the Decorative Arts session
AU - Thøfner, Margit
AU - Hatt, Michael
AU - Faulkner, Katie
AU - Ferrari, Anna
AU - Lübbren, Nina
AU - O’Gorman, Bridget
AU - Polledri, Melanie
AU - Sterckx, Marjan
AU - Wainwright, Lisa
AU - Jones, Claire
AU - Hart, Imogen
AU - Gray, Laura
A2 - Jones, Claire
A2 - Hart, Imogen
PY - 2020/11/26
Y1 - 2020/11/26
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Sculpture
KW - Decorative arts
UR - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sculpture-and-the-decorative-in-britain-and-europe-9781501341250/
M3 - Book
SN - 9781501341250
T3 - Material Culture of Art and Design
BT - Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe
PB - Bloomsbury Academic
CY - London and New York
Y2 - 8 April 2016 through 8 April 2016
ER -