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Johan Tobias Sergel (1740–1814) är inte bara Sveriges störste skulptör genom tiderna. Han var också en pionjär inom den internationella nyklassicismen och därmed en av de främsta i den europeiska samtiden. Sergel liknade sitt möte med Rom vid en konstnärlig pånyttfödelse: här bestämde han sig för att lämna det mesta av den franska rokokon bakom sig. Skulptörens nya ledstjärnor blev antiken om dagen och om kvällarna studier efter naturen . I sin tolkning av de kända antika förebilderna behöll han dock rokokons sinnlighet. Det är detta drag som i så hög grad skiljer Sergel från de två namn som snart skulle komma att dominera historieskrivningen, nämligen italienaren Antonio Canova och dansken Bertel Thorvaldsen.
I denna biografi får vi följa dramatiken i Sergels liv, läsa om hans nära relation till Gustav III och de många konstnärsvännerna, hans saknad av Rom och de sista åren som präglades av sjukdom. Johan Tobias Sergel. Konstnär och europé bygger på nytt källmaterial och försöker bland annat förklara varför Sergel blev världsberömd i sitt hemland, men okänd i världen. Biografin är den första som även utkommer på engelska.
Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné
Paintings and Sculpture late 1974-1976 (Volume 4)
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
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The 607 paintings and one sculpture documented in Volume 4 of The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné were produced during a period of less than three years, from late 1974 through early 1977. In September 1974, Warhol changed studios, moving across Union Square from the sixth floor of 33 Union Square West to the third floor of 860 West Broadway. Like Volumes 2 and 3, Volume 4 is identified with a new studio, where Warhol continued to work for a decade, until he moved into his last studio at 22 East 33rd Street on December 3, 1984. Volume 4 may be seen as the first in a series of books associated with one studio that will document an enormously productive ten-year period in Warhol's oeuvre from the mid seventies to the mid eighties.
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Den tyske poeten Rainer Maria Rilkes texter om skulptören Auguste Rodin samlas här i översättning av Ulf Claësson. Filosofen Sven-Olov Wallenstein har skrivit ett omfattande efterord om Rilke, bilden och tinget.
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Fem monumentala betongskulpturer av Pablo Picasso står i Sverige – fler än i något annat land. Hur hamnade världens mest berömde konstnär mitt i folkhemmets vardag? Boken Picasso i det svenska folkhemmet – berättelsen om fem offentliga skulpturer skildrar den otroliga historien om politik, prestige och passion när världskonsten mötte det svenska välfärdsprojektet. I 1960- och 70-talens Sverige väckte Picassos betongmonument både beundran och provokation. Författarna Ola Liljedahl, Lena Nyblad Liljedahl, fotografen Ulf Berglund och initiativtagaren Peter Forhaug följer spåren efter Picassos svenska verk – från Kristinehamn och Helsingborg till Halmstad, Solna och Moderna Museet i Stockholm. Resultatet är en berättelse lika dramatisk som den är underhållande. ”Picasso i det svenska folkhemmet är mer än konsthistoria. Det är en berättelse om visioner, strider och hur en liten nation vågade drömma stort – med världens största konstnär som symbol,” säger författarna. Boken avslöjar de osannolika historierna bakom flera av skulpturerna: • En invigning där publiken buade. • Ett verk som stoppades i sista stund från att skeppas till New York. • Och en skulptur som – på fullt allvar – kördes över av en traktor på kommunens eget beslut. Genom arkivmaterial, tidningsklipp och intervjuer med de som var där tecknas bilden av hur Picassos konst landade i den svenska vardagen – i miljonprogrammets parker och studentområden. Det är också en skildring av en tid då konsten sågs som en självklar del av samhällsbygget. Drygt femtio år efter sin bortgång är Picasso fortfarande högst aktuell och boken ges ut samtidigt som Moderna Museet i Stockholm lanserar sin stora utställning Sena Picasso, med start den 22 november.
Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay
A Guide to Capturing the Human Form for Ceramic Artists
Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
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Explore the human form in depth, from concept sketches and armatures to detailed instructions for constructing legs, torso, arms, hands, and head from clay.In Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay, renowned sculptor and instructor Cristina Córdova—recipient of the prestigious Smithsonian Women’s Committee Delphi Award for sculptural arts—teaches everything you need to know to replicate the full human figure using clay.Start by developing meaningful sketches and reference points.Then learn how to make and use an armature to create hollow forms that are safe to fire in a kiln.Using patterns and slabs, you can move on to develop a full human form, head to toe.Work along with the author to create a form about two-feet tall, or choose your own size: the patterns and instructions can work in a variety of scales.Photographic demonstrations and diagrams cover the construction and articulation of feet and legs, the hip area and upper torso, arms, hands, neck, and head. Cristina includes supplementary tips and insights throughout to support the sculpting process and enhance naturalism. You’ll also find a brief section on general anatomical concepts and modeling strategies to facilitate accuracy and expression as all the components come together.Whether you are a clay artist with limited experience in figurative sculpture or a figurative sculptor outside the world of ceramics looking for a straightforward fabrication strategy to create permanent compositions from clay, Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay will expertly guide your way.
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How do you represent the divine and the central miracles of Christianity? Divine Presence explores this question through the captivating world of marble representations in Late Gothic and Early Renaissance art.This groundbreaking study reveals how painters – including Fra Angelico, Bellini, Crivelli and Mantegna – transformed depictions of marble from mere decoration into a powerful theological tool. By blending naturalistic detail with imaginative color and texture, these artists created visual meditations on creation, incarnation, resurrection, and divine presence. Rooted in ancient beliefs that marble was a living substance, their works made the ineffable visible, inviting viewers to glimpse heaven through pigment and stone.The first visual study of this widespread visual phenomenon, Divine Presence offers fresh insights for art lovers, culture enthusiasts, and history buffs. Through stunning imagery, original research, and engaging texts, this book uncovers the spiritual and devotional power of painted marble in the art of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance.
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Gunnar Smoliansky har porträtterat Lars Kleens konstverk sedan fyrtio år tillbaka. Vartendaste ett. Det är ett unikt samarbete mellan två konstnärer, och en unik skatt i svenskt konstliv. Den här boken visar det som återstår av en mycket sparsmakad dialog och blir därmed ett tredje, gemensamt konstverk. Gunnar Smoliansky är en av Sveriges mest betydelsefulla fotografer. Han föddes 1933 i Visby och har sedan början av 1950talet ägnat sig åt fotografi. Lars Kleen är född i Stockholm 1941 och studerade först måleri på konstakademierna i Köpenhamn och Krakow. Sedan slutet av 60talet har han hållit till i ett gammalt linoljekokeri i Nacka och framför allt ägnat sig åt skulptur. Här har Gunnar Smoliansky regelbundet dykt upp för att med sin kamera ge sin strängt valda och helt subjektiva bild av det han sett. Konstruktionerna och miljöerna återges i närgångna och ”förklarande” detaljer eller med distans, där verken står i symbios med väl valda, mycket specifika rum. I verkstaden och i utställningar på museer och konsthallar, men också i hamnmagasin, i tunnelbanan, på teaterscener och i övergivna industrilokaler. Materialen, hantverket, ljuset, färgerna och skuggorna – hela intrycket transformerat till ett nytt uttryck. Från tre råa dimensioner till två svartvita.
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An updated edition of the indispensable guide to the British artist Phyllida Barlow’s sculptural oeuvre across 6 decades. Phyllida Barlow: Sculpture, 1963–2023 is a comprehensive guide to Phyllida Barlow’s sculptural language, charting the progression of the artist’s extraordinary and influential career. Barlow’s restless invented forms stretch the limits of mass, volume, and height, challenging her audience into a new relationship with the sculptural object, the gallery environment, and the world beyond. Originally published by Fruitmarket and Hatje Cantz in 2015, this major monograph begins in the 1960s and documents six decades of Barlow’s astonishing sculptures and expansive installations, including the Duveen Commission for Tate Britain (2014) and her 2015 Fruitmarket exhibition, set. It has now been expanded to include Barlow’s important exhibitions in the years that followed, among them the British Pavilion for the 2017 Venice Biennale, her work for New York’s High Line (2018), and her Schwitters-Prize-winning exhibition at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover (2022). Authored by curator Frances Morris, who has made extensive additions to her original text for this updated edition, and featuring illustrations of over 130 works, Phyllida Barlow: Sculpture, 1963–2023 is the indispensable resource on the important British sculptor.
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Denna rikt illustrerade publikation har utgivits i samband med den uppmärksammade konstnären Cecilia Edefalks omfattande separatutställning på Prins Eugens Waldemarsuddes hösten 2016. Utställningen, som är den första retrospektiven med Edefalks egensinniga och djupt personliga konstnärskap sedan 1999, bär titeln Maskros/Dandelion och kretsar kring ämnen som tid, minne, det andliga, förgänglighet och återfödelse. Ett antal framstående skribenter från Sverige och Tyskland medverkar i vår bok med poetiska och tänkvärda reflektioner över Cecilia Edefalks intresseväckande konstnärskap och över de målningar, skulpturer och fotografier från sent 1970-tal fram till idag som ingår i utställningen.
Del 3 - Vertigos ockulta klassiker
Katedralernas mysterium : en esoterisk tolkning av de hermetiska symbolerna i det stora alkemiska verket
Inbunden, Svenska, 2013
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Katedralernas mysterium (Le mystère des cathedrales) från 1929 är en av de stora alkemiska klassikerna. Dess författare, pseudonymen Fulcanelli, hör till 1900-talets mest sägensomspunna karaktärer, som gjort stora avtryck även inom populärkulturen. I Katedralernas mysterium, som gavs ut av hans lärjunge Eugène Canseliet efter att Fulcanelli enligt myten lyckats med det alkemiska verket och försvunnit från det normala livet, gör författaren en läsning av gotikens bildvärld utifrån alkemins säregna ambitioner. Reliefer, glasfönster och målningar avhandlar i hans ögon det största mysteriet, arbetet med att nå De vises sten, all fullkomlighets fullkomlighet. Kjell Lekeby har skrivit och översatt en lång rad verk, med särskild inriktning på esoterism, till exempel Nicolas Flamels Boken om de hieroglyfiska bilderna (1996), Kung Kristina: drottningen som ville byta kön (2000) och Gustaviansk mystik: Alkemister, kabbalister, magiker, andeskådare, astrologer och skattegrävare i den esoteriska kretsen kring G A Reuterholm, hertig Carl och hertiginnan Charlotta 1776 1803 (2010). Christer Böke är praktiserande alkemist och har ägnat stor möda åt att förstå Fulcanelli och hans berömda verk. I hans efterord läser vi om spekulationerna kring Fulcanellis person samt dennes alkemiska metod. Detta är den första svenska översättningen av Katedralernas mysterium. Utgåvan är försedd med Julien Champagnes originalillustrationer och uttömmande kommentarer.
Finding Form with Fibre
be inspired, gather materials, and create your own sculptural basketry
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
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Hertha Hillfon (1921-2013) var Sveriges främsta keramiska skulptör under 1900-talet. Hennes arbete spände från det abstrakta till det föreställande, från utlevande och dramatiska kompositioner till enkla och vardagliga motiv. Tidningsreportage, tv-program och ett stort antal verk i offentlig miljö gjorde henne välkänd och folkkär. Den här boken presenterar hennes arbete genom konsthistoriska essäer och intervjuer med människor som stod henne nära. Boken innehåller också ett rikt och tidigare delvis opublicerat bildmaterial. Boken har parallelltext på svenska och engelska. Hertha Hillfon (1921-2013) was Sweden’s leading ceramic sculptor of the 20th century. Her work ranged from abstract to figurative and from dramatically ebullient compositions to simple, domestic motifs. Frequent newspaper reports, TV programmes and a large number of works in the public domain led to her becoming both well-known and popular. In this book she is presented by critical essays as well as interviews with people close to her. The book is richly illustrated, partly with hitherto unpublished photographs. The book has parallel text in Swedish and English.
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Maria Westerberg har skördat både skratt- och gråtretande reaktioner för sitt konstnärliga arbete vars energi, innehåll och mening hon alltid har hämtat ur skogen. Och på något sätt önskar hon återbörda detta till skogen. Som ett svar på trädens och det övriga växandets frågor. Eller som en replik till sina meningsmotståndare som i skogen enbart ser tillväxt, eller andra mätbara värden. Med sina utställningar, böcker och i dikter har Vildhjärta tagit ställning för skogens rätt att vara skog. Skogen finns också mellan träden, under dem och ovanför. Skogen finns till och med långt bortom de marker där den har sina rötter, nämligen i oss levande varelser som en känsla, en tillhörighet.
"Skogen strör ut sina pinnar framför mig som vore de ledtrådar till enkelheten. Och jag älgar på och plockar upp dem en och en. Som lockande pusselbitar ligger de, dessa fragment av betydelser bland rotvältor, mossor och gammelgranarna. De vill något med mig. Allt det som jag tappat bort får jag långsamt fatt på igen. Jag når det med handen. Jag samlar mig närmare mig själv där i grönheten. Med krokvuxenheter, ord och ögonblick. Med grå grenar, delar av anständighet, tid och små bitar av något som liknar frihet. Jag väljer skogen och den magiska ömhet som finns i varje pinne. Det är min revolution."Maria Vildhjärta Westerberg
Beginner's Guide to Hand Building
Functional and Sculptural Projects for the Home Potter
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
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Join the home pottery revolution!Whether you have access to a communal studio or not, hand building projects can travel just about anywhere. Take your clay outside or work at the kitchen table, with instruction from best-selling ceramics author Sunshine Cobb. In this book, you’ll find all the necessary fundamentals, including a thorough discussion of clay as well as helpful tips for keeping your body and mind in top shape. Then pick the path that’s right for you in the chapters that follow. Develop new skills and unlock your own creativity as you explore:Sculptural projects like miniature animals and plants. Functional items like scoops, a citrus reamer, and a coffee pour-over vessel. Mixed media projects including a candlestick holder, mobile, and a soap dish. All along the way, skill-building is front and center, with conversational instructions and tips to help you make pieces you’re proud to show off. Gallery work from some of today’s top artists are sure to inspire potters of all levels. What will you make first?For beginners and those returning to ceramics, the Essential Ceramics Skills series from Quarry Books offer the fundamentals along with fresh, contemporary, and simple projects that build skills progressively.
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Transforming unlikely pieces of scrap metal into significant works of art - giving new life to things we throw away - is an accessible, creative and fulfilling activity. This book describes and illustrates the concerns and techniques involved in making this kind of sculpture, looking behind the work at the richness and diversity of an area of sculpture that deserves to be far better known. Topics covered include the role and purpose of sculpture, the particular qualities of sculpture made from scrap metal and the practical processes involved in its making. It also covers sources of scrap metal, identifying metals, reviewing metalworking techniques, creative approaches, different types of sculpture, and the making, finishing and installation of pieces of sculpture.
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Benvenuto Cellini is an artist-craftsman, one of the greatest sculptors in the renaissance, passionately devoted to art, the worshipper and frequenter of the great men of his time, the 'divine' Michelangelo, who came to his studio, the 'marvellous' Titian (the adjectives are Cellini's ). He loathed the sculptor Torregiano because he had broken Michelangelo's nose.His autobiography gives a quite extraordinarily vivid account of daily life in Renaissance Florence and Rome, its studios, its taverns, its violence, his loves, the kings, cardinals and popes who commission his works. At 27 he helps direct the defence of the castello San Angelo; his account of his imprisonment there under a mad castellan (who thought he was a bat), his escape by an improvised rope, his recapture, his confinement in 'a cell of tarantulas and venomous worms' is a chapter of adventure equal to any in fact or fiction. Later he describes burning all his furniture to achieve sufficient heat to cast of one of his most famous works, Perseus and the Head of Medusa. Cellini's Life was translated by Goethe into German. The Everyman translation by Anne Macdonell (1903) is widely recognised as the most faithful to the energy and spirit of the original.
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A moving account of how war is remembered – and by whom 'Impressive. A hundred individual histories, skillfully assembled, built into a poignant meditation on why they still matter' David Olusoga 'Brilliant' Piers Morgan Bestselling historian Tessa Dunlop travels the length and breadth of the United Kingdom on a quest to uncover a story of national warring and national mourning, of fighting each other and of fighting together. Along the way, she summons a stellar cast of veterans, military experts and families of the fallen to reveal what our monuments and war heroes say about us, both then and now.Why did Scotland take nearly 600 years to commemorate its most famous freedom fighter? When did Wellington become anti-Establishment? Who are the Glorious Dead? Can the Cenotaph stay above politics? And how do you commemorate contested, asymmetrical wars?Through powerful veteran testimony from individuals such as Falklands hero Simon Weston and HRH The Duke of Kent, Tessa brings to life the pride and the pain of commemoration across these isles.Lest We Forget, freedom is not free. 'In this wonderfully incisive, moving and timely book about commemoration, Dunlop breathes life into 100 British monuments – some famous, others less so – that together reveal our island story. A stunning achievement.' Saul David
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A moving account of how war is remembered – and by whom 'Impressive. A hundred individual histories, skillfully assembled, built into a poignant meditation on why they still matter' David Olusoga 'Brilliant' Piers Morgan Bestselling historian Tessa Dunlop travels the length and breadth of the United Kingdom on a quest to uncover a story of national warring and national mourning, of fighting each other and of fighting together. Along the way, she summons a stellar cast of veterans, military experts and families of the fallen to reveal what our monuments and war heroes say about us, both then and now.Why did Scotland take nearly 600 years to commemorate its most famous freedom fighter? When did Wellington become anti-Establishment? Who are the Glorious Dead? Can the Cenotaph stay above politics? And how do you commemorate contested, asymmetrical wars?Through powerful veteran testimony from individuals such as Falklands hero Simon Weston and HRH The Duke of Kent, Tessa brings to life the pride and the pain of commemoration across these isles.Lest We Forget, freedom is not free. 'In this wonderfully incisive, moving and timely book about commemoration, Dunlop breathes life into 100 British monuments – some famous, others less so – that together reveal our island story. A stunning achievement.' Saul David
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Benvenuto Cellini was a celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith - a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful political and artistic personalities in sixteenth-century Florence, Rome and Paris. He was also a murderer and a braggart, a shameless adventurer who at different times experienced both papal persecution and imprisonment, and the adulation of the royal court. Inn-keepers and prostitutes, kings and cardinals, artists and soldiers rub shoulders in the pages of his notorious autobiography: a vivid portrait of the manners and morals of both the rulers of the day and of their subjects. Written with supreme powers of invective and an irrepressible sense of humour, this is an unrivalled glimpse into the palaces and prisons of the Italy of Michelangelo and the Medici.
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This book comprehensively examines the relationship between literature and sculpture in the work of W. B. Yeats, drawing on extensive archival research to offer revelatory new readings of the poet. The book traces Yeats's literary and critical engagement with Celtic Revival statuary, public monuments in Dublin, the coin designs of the Irish Free State, abstract sculpture by the Vorticists and modernists, and a variety of carvings, decorative sculptures, and objets d'art. By charting Yeats's early art school education in Dublin, his attempts to raise funds for public monuments in the city, and to secure commissions for his favourite sculptors, the book documents a lifelong interest in the plastic arts. New and original readings of Yeats's poetry, drama, and prose criticism emerge from this concertedly inter-arts and interdisciplinary study.
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The articles of Bernard V. Bothmer are the most comprehensive collection of writings on Egyptian art history. They are introduced by T.D.H. James, former Keeper, Egyptian Collection, The British Museum, and Rita Freed, Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian and Near Eastern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and address several themes, such as the reappraisal of old theories to gain new insights, the contextual interpretation of Egyptian art to determine nuance and meaning, and stylistic analysis. Topics covered range in date from the origins of ancient Egypt to its decline in the Roman period. The audience for the work includes professional scholars, students and museum curators, particularly in Europe, where Bothmer has a wide following. Bothmer in his career sought out both scholarly and lay audiences, and his writings have the same dual purpose.
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In his third book, David Levi Strauss delves into the mysterious process whereby an image or idea is born in the mind and materialized through the hand in the expression of an artwork. How exactly does this exchange take place? It's a question so basic, an act so fundamental to art-making, that it has rarely received attention. It makes an ideal topic for Strauss, one of our best art critics, who has an exceptional ability to animate art's philosophical dimensions in clear, persuasive manner. Featuring over 25 illustrations, the book explores the works of sculptors including Martin Puryear, painters like Ron Gorchov, the work of contemporary Haida carvers, and many recent writers. He takes up Cecilia Vicuña's "memory of the fingers;" reframes the legacy of Leon Golub and Nancy Spero; and grapples with the handiwork of curators in staging exhibitions. Known primarily for his writings on photography and politics, Strauss focuses here on the least mediated arts--painting, sculpture, and writing--to recover art's most raw resource: the immediacy of the hand and the language it makes possible.
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Between 1350 and 1650, a vast number of bronze objects, both large and small, decorative and functional, were produced in Venice for domestic consumption and for the export market. Whether unique works of art specifically commissioned from renowned sculptors by wealthy patrons, or low status artefacts mass-produced by founders for speculative sale in their shops, Venetian bronzes are distinguishable from those made at the same time in other centres by the great beauty and variety of their form, their rich ornamentation, and by their generally high quality.Based on a wealth of unpublished documents and newly available scientific data obtained during recent conservation projects, this book tells the story of bronze-its production, placement and purpose-in Venice through the objects themselves and the people who commissioned, made and owned them. It reveals the location and purpose of key independent foundries in the city centre, as well as the state-owned foundries at the Arsenal. It sheds light on the identities of the founders, their daily lives and workshop organisation, and tracks the rise and fall of the most important dynasties, their successful collaborations and fierce rivalries. The genesis and creation process of certain significant bronze masterpieces is discussed, together with a number of long-forgotten casting disasters and abortive commissions.The text and documentary appendix are enhanced by lavish illustrations, which include newly commissioned photographs of recently-restored works of art, and unpublished historical photographs.
Transfiguration
The Religion of Art in Nineteenth-Century Literature Before Aestheticism
Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
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Transfiguration explores the work of John Ruskin, Robert Browning, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Walter Pater, treating in particular the ways in which they engaged with the Christian content of their subject, and, in Pater's case, how the art of Christianity was contrasted with classical sculpture. Stephen Cheeke examines two related phenomena: idolatry (a false substitution, a sexual betrayal), and the poetics of transfiguration (to elevate or glorify subject matter not thought of as conventionally poetic, to praise). Central to the book is the question of the 'translation' of religion into art and aesthetics, a process which supposedly undergirds the advent of the museum age and makes possible the idea of a 'religion of art' as a phenomenon of late century Aestheticism. Such a phenomenon is prepared for, however, through the engagement with Christian painting and classical sculpture in the work of these four writers. All four thought carefully about the ways in which a particular mimetic impulse of 'making-live' in artworks could be connected to religious experience. This meant exploring the nature of the link between seeing and believing--visualising in order to conceive, to verify, but also in the sense of being acted upon by the visible. All four wrote about the great power of artworks to transfigure the objects of their attention. In each case, there emerges the possibility of a secret sexual knowledge hiding within, or lying on the other side of the sensuous knowledge of aesthesis. All four wondered whether this was inherently hostile to Christianity, or whether it may, finally, be an accommodation within it.
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Statues of important Romans frequently represented them nude. Men were portrayed naked holding weapons - the naked emperor might wield the thunderbolt of Jupiter - while Roman women assumed the guise of the nude love-goddess, Venus. When faced with these strange images, modern viewers are usually unsympathetic, finding them incongruous, even tasteless. They are mostly written off as just another example of Roman `bad taste'.This book offers a new approach. Comprehensively illustrated with black and white photographs of nude Romans represented in a wide range of artistic media, it investigates how this tradition arose, and how the nudity of these images was meant to be understood by contemporary viewers. And, since the Romans also employed a variety of other costumes for their statues (toga, armour, Greek philosopher's cloak), it asks, `What could nudity express that other costumes could not?' It is Hallett's claim that - looked at in this way - these `Roman nudes' turn out to be documents of the first importance for the cultural historian.
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Statues are among the most familiar remnants of classical art. Yet their prominence in ancient society is often ignored. In the Roman world statues were ubiquitous. Whether they were displayed as public honours or memorials, collected as works of art, dedicated to deities, venerated as gods, or violated as symbols of a defeated political regime, they were recognized individually and collectively as objects of enormous significance.By analysing ancient texts and images, Statues in Roman Society unravels the web of associations which surrounded Roman statues. Addressing all categories of statuary together for the first time, it illuminates them in ancient terms, explaining expectations of what statues were or ought to be and describing the Romans' uneasy relationship with 'the other population' in their midst.
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This is a book about classical sculptures in the early modern period, centuries after the decline and fall of Rome, when they began to be excavated, restored, and collected by British visitors in Italy in the second half of the eighteenth century. Viccy Coltman contrasts the precarious and competitive culture of eighteenth-century collecting, which integrated sculpture into the domestic interior back home in Britain, with the study and publication of individual specimens by classical archaeologists like Adolf Michaelis a century later. Her study is comprehensively illustrated with over 100 photographs.