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Sculpture is the universal art. It has been practised by every culture throughout the world and stretches back into the distant past. The first surviving shaped stones may even predate the advent of language. The drive to form stone, clay, wood and metal into shapes evidently runs deep in our psyche and biology. This links the question 'What is sculpture?' to the question 'What is humanity?' 0 In this wide-ranging book, two complementary voices - one belonging to an artist who looks to Asian and Buddhist traditions as much as to Western sculptural history, the other to a critic and historian - consider how sculpture has been central to the evolution of our potential for thinking and feeling. Sculpture cannot be seen in isolation as an aesthetic pursuit; it is related to humankind's compelling urge to make its mark on the landscape, build, make pictures, practise religion and develop philosophical thought. 0 Drawing on examples from thousands of years bce to now, and from around the globe, the authors treat sculpture as a transnational art form with its own compelling history. They take into account materials and techniques, and consider overarching themes such as space, light and darkness. Above all, they discuss their view of sculpture as a form of physical thinking capable of altering the way people feel and of inviting them to look at sculpture they encounter and more broadly the world around them in a completely different way.

Sculpture --- sculpture [visual works] --- art history --- philosophy of art --- Sculpture, Ancient --- 73(091) --- Beeldhouwkunst ; theorie ; kunstbeschouwing --- Ancient sculpture --- History --- Beeldhouwkunst ; geschiedenis --- kunstpsychologie

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Art --- History of ancient Greece --- art [discipline] --- mythology [literary genre] --- human figures [visual works] --- Antiquity

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Sculpture --- shape [form attribute] --- ethnic art --- primitivism [artistic concept] --- art theory --- sculpting --- Chinese [culture or style] --- Egyptian [ancient] --- anno 1900-1999

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This volume originates from an international conference (Oxford University, 2007). Texts address plaster casts and related themes from antiquity to the present day, and from Egypt to America, Mexico and New Zealand. They are of interest to classical archaeologists, art historians, the history of collecting, curators, conservators, collectors and artists. Articles explore the functions, status and reception of plaster casts in artists' workshops and in private and public collections, as well as hands-on issues, such as the making, trading, display and conservation of plaster casts. Case-studies on artists' use of material and technique include ancient Roman copyists, Renaissance sculptors and painters, Dutch 17th-century workshops, Canova, Boccioni and others. A second theme is the role of plaster casts in the history of collecting from the Renaissance to the present day.Several papers address the dissemination of visual ideas, models and ideals through the medium. Papers on modern and contemporary art illuminate the changing uses and semantic values of plaster casts in this period. Amongst the types of casts discussed are artists' models and final works as well as casts after antiquities, including sculpture, architecture and gems (dactyliothecae). The volume demonstrates the richness of the field, both in terms of the material itself and modern scholarship concerned with it. Conceived as a handbook for students, academics, curators and collectors, the text will form a standard work on the role of plaster casts in the history of Western sculpture.

Antiquities --- Cultural property --- Plaster casts --- Sculpture, Ancient --- Art, Ancient --- Archaeology --- Collection and preservation --- Protection --- Conservation and restoration --- Methodology --- Sculpture --- Antiquités --- Biens culturels --- Plâtres --- Sculpture antique --- Art antique --- Archéologie --- Congresses. --- Congresses --- Collections et conservation --- Congrès --- Conservation et restauration --- Méthodologie --- Ancient sculpture --- Casting --- Casts --- Models (Clay, plaster, etc.) --- Plaster craft --- Beeldhouwkunst --- beeldhouwwerken [beeldmateriaal] --- afgietsels --- restauratie [procédé] --- milieubeheer --- tentoonstellen --- beeldhouwen --- architectural models --- gietbaar pleister --- sculpture [visual works] --- casts [sculpture] --- restoration [process] --- conservation [discipline] --- exhibiting --- sculpting --- casting plaster --- Geschichte --- Moulage. --- Plaster cast. --- Sculpture.

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Servranckx, Victor ; Flouquet, Pierre-Louis ; Joostens, Paul ; Seuphor, Michel ; Peeters, Jozef ; Maes, Karel ; Kiemeneij, Jan ; Donas, Marthe ; Baugniet, Marcel-Louis ; Gailliard, Jean-Jacques ; Closon, Henri-Jean ; Delhez, Victor ; Ongenae, Jozef ; Delahaut, Jo ; Bertrand, Gaston ; Peire, Luc ; Leblanc, Walter ; Verheyen, Jef ; Van Severen, Dan ; Cortier, Amédée ; Swimberghe, Gilbert ; Van Doorslaer, Etienne ; De Sauter, Willy

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