Modeling Sculpture challenges conventional sculptural histories by unearthing the significance of clay and ceramic statuary in eighteenth-century France. An interdisciplinary study in four chapters, the book centers Clodion's terracottas as a case study for registering in their material, facture, and subject matter the plasticity and dynamism fundamental to the period's aesthetic debates on invention, the picturesque, taste, and even revolutionary sensibility. "."

Modeling Sculpture challenges conventional sculptural histories by unearthing the significance of clay and ceramic statuary in eighteenth-century France. An interdisciplinary study in four chapters, the book centers Clodion's terracottas as a case study for registering in their material, facture, and subject matter the plasticity and dynamism fundamental to the period's aesthetic debates on invention, the picturesque, taste, and even revolutionary sensibility. "."