Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe: Seventeenth Century to Contemporary

By foregrounding the overlaps between sculpture and the decorative, this volume of essays offers a model for a more integrated form of art history writing. Through distinct case studies, from a seventeenth-century Danish altarpiece to contemporary British ceramics, it brings to centre stage makers, objects, concepts and spaces that have been marginalized by the enforcement of boundaries within art and design discourse. These essays challenge the classed, raced and gendered categories that have structured the histories and languages of art and its making. Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and practice of sculpture and the decorative arts and the methodologies of art history.

Author: Imogen Hart
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 05/19/2022
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d
ISBN13: 9781501387753
ISBN10: 1501387758
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Sculpture & Installation
- Art | European
- Art | History | General

About the Author

Imogen Hart is Adjunct Assistant Professor of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Claire Jones is Lecturer in History of Art, University of Birmingham, UK.