Sculpture and Photography
Sculpture and Photography
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This title examines the complex ways that sculpture and photography have intersected, historically, aesthetically, and theoretically. Exploring the important role that images of sculpture have played in the history of photography, this volume also considers the impact that photography has had on the creation and interpretation of sculpture. The essays consider a wide range of topics, including the use of photography by Rodin, Brancusi, David Smith, and various Minimalist sculptors; the manipulation of photographs of sculpture for aesthetic and political purposes; the relationship between sculpture, photography, and gender in the late nineteenth century, as well as in the work of Hesse and Mapplethorpe; and the redefinition of the boundaries between sculpture and photography by artists such as Joseph Beuys and Jeff Wall. Using a variety of approaches, this volume also considers photography as a means of representing three-dimensional works of art.
- First major book published in English to examine the complex relationship between sculpture and photography
- Collection will be of interest to students, art historians, museum curators, and practising sculptors and photographers
Product details
January 1999Hardback
9780521621373
272 pages
262 × 187 × 23 mm
0.905kg
100 b/w illus.
Unavailable - out of print January 2003
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Sculpture and photography: envisioning the third dimension Géraldine A. Johnson
- 1. Nineteenth-century photographic depictions of sculpture and the rhetoric of substitution Joel Snyder
- 2. The mystification of antiquity under Pius IX: Rome 1846–1878 Mary Bergstein
- 3. Eakins's Arcadia: sculpture, photography, and the redefinition of the classical body Michael Hatt
- 4. Montrer est la question vitale: Rodin and photography Helene Pinet
- 5. Modelling the body: physical culture, photography, and the classical ideal in fin-de-siècle France Tamar Garb
- 6. Sculpture's negative: the photography of Constantin Brancusi Paul Paret
- 7. Malraux and the power of photography Henri Zerner
- 8. Private views/public images: David Smith's photographs Joan Pachner
- 9. Splitting the index: time, object, and photography in the work of Joseph Beuys and Yves Klein David Green, and Joanna Lowry
- 10. Striking poses: the absurdist theatrics of Eva Hesse Anna C. Chave
- 11. The minimalist object and the photographic image Alex Potts
- 12. A lazy man's approach: Robert Mapplethorpe and the language of sculpture William Hood
- 13. Sculpture, photography, and the politics of public space: Serra's Tilted Arc and Lin's Vietnam veterans memorial Géraldine A. Johnson
- 14. The space of anxiety: sculpture and photography in the work of Jeff Wall Briony Fer.
