Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe: Seventeenth Century to Contemporary
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Authors
Colleges, School and Institutes
External organisations
- University of California, Berkeley
- Warwick University
- Royal Academy of Arts
- Anglia Ruskin University
- Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
- Ghent University
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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.
Details
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | London and New York |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
Number of pages | 348 |
Edition | First |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781501341267, 9781501341274 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781501341250 |
Publication status | Published - 26 Nov 2020 |
Event | Sculpture and the Decorative Arts session - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 8 Apr 2016 → 8 Apr 2016 |
Publication series
Name | Material Culture of Art and Design |
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Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
Keywords
- Sculpture, Decorative arts