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60 books match the query 'Sculpture & Installation' and 3 start with m
Michelangelo’s Sculpture
Selected EssaysLeo Steinberg
University of Chicago Press, 2018
For half a century, Steinberg delved into Michelangelo’s work, revealing the symbolic structures underlying the artist’s highly charged idiom. This volume of essays and unpublished lectures explicates many of Michelangelo’s most celebrated sculptures, applying principles gleaned from long, hard looking. Almost everything Steinberg wrote included passages of old-fashioned formal analysis, but here put to the service of interpretation. He understood that Michelangelo’s rendering of figures as well as their gestures and interrelations conveys an emblematic significance masquerading under the guise of naturalism. Michelangelo pushed Renaissance naturalism into the furthest reaches of metaphor, using the language of the body and its actions to express fundamental Christian tenets once expressible only by poets and preachers—or, as Steinberg put it, in Michelangelo’s art, “anatomy becomes theology.”
Michelangelo’s Sculpture is the first in a series of volumes of Steinberg’s selected writings and unpublished lectures, edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz. The volume also includes a book review debunking psychoanalytic interpretation of the master’s work, a light-hearted look at Michelangelo and the medical profession and, finally, the shortest piece Steinberg ever published.
Modeling Sculpture
Clodion and the Aesthetics of TerracottaElizabeth Saari Browne
University of Delaware Press, 2027
In eighteenth-century Europe, connoisseurs, financiers, artists, and aristocrats alike all avidly collected the terracotta vases and statues made by Claude Michel, called Clodion. Yet, despite the widespread enthusiasm for his work, Clodion’s terracottas have since then been largely dismissed as decorative, feminine, or mere luxury. Modeling Sculpture, the first English-language monograph dedicated to Clodion’s terracotta oeuvre, counters such conventional narratives. Against the understanding of “serious” sculpture as works that publicly perpetuate the heroic actions and virtues of great men, author Elizabeth Saari Browne argues instead that philosophically engaged sculpture might be found in materials, forms, and places where one least expects it. Across this richly illustrated, multi-disciplinary study, earthen clay emerges as a medium suited to the flexible modes of thought advocated by some of the period’s most renowned philosophers, naturalists, and even arts reformers. This book therefore foregrounds clay’s potential to challenge the perceived primacy of white figurative statuary in art historiography, emblematic of hierarchical notions of class, power, learning, and prestige.
Monument Lab
Creative Speculations for PhiladelphiaPaul M. Farber
Temple University Press, 2020
What is an appropriate monument for the current city of Philadelphia? That was the question posed by the curators, artists, scholars, and students who comprise the Philadelphia-based public art and history studio Monument Lab. And in 2017, along with Mural Arts Philadelphia, they produced and organized a groundbreaking, city-wide exhibition of temporary, site-specific works that engaged directly with the community. The installations, by a cohort of diverse artists considering issues of identity, appeared in iconic public squares and neighborhood parks with research and learning labs and prototype monuments.
Monument Lab is a fabulous compendium of the exhibition and a critical reflection of the proceedings, including contributions from interlocutors and collaborators. The exhibition and this handbook were designed to generate new ways of thinking about monuments and public art as well as to find new, critical perspectives to reflect on the monuments we have inherited and to imagine those we have yet to build. Monument Lab energizes acivic dialogue about place and history as forces for a deeper questioning of what it means to be Philadelphian in a time of renewal and continuing struggle.
Contributors: Alexander Alberro, Alliyah Allen, Laurie Allen, Andrew Friedman, Justin Geller, Kristen Giannantonio, Jane Golden, Aviva Kapust, Fariah Khan, Homay King, Stephanie Mach, Trapeta B. Mayson, Nathaniel Popkin, Ursula Rucker, Jodi Throckmorton, Salamishah Tillet, Jennifer Harford Vargas, Naomi Waltham-Smith, Bethany Wiggin, Mariam I. Williams, Leslie Willis-Lowry, and the editors.
Artists: Tania Bruguera, Mel Chin, Kara Crombie, Tyree Guyton, Hans Haacke, David Hartt, Sharon Hayes, King Britt and Joshua Mays, Klip Collective, Duane Linklater, Emeka Ogboh, Karyn Olivier, Michelle Angela Ortiz, Kaitlin Pomerantz, RAIR, Alexander Rosenberg, Jamel Shabazz, Hank Willis Thomas, Shira Walinsky and Southeast by Southeast, and Marisa Williamson.