Bücher der Reihe Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture

Sculpture and the Museum is the first in-depth examination of the varying roles and meanings assigned to sculpture in museums and galleries during the modern period, from neo-classical to contemporary art practice. It considers a rich array of curatorial strategies and settings in order to examine the many reasons why sculpture has enjoyed a position of such considerable importance - and complexity - within the institutional framework of the museum and how changes to the museum have altered, in turn, the ways that we perceive the sculpture within it. In particular, the contributors consider the complex issue of how best to display sculpture across different periods and according to varying curatorial philosophies. Sculptors discussed include Canova, Rodin, Henry Moore, Flaxman and contemporary artists such as Rebecca Horn, Rachel Whiteread, Mark Dion and Olafur Eliasson, with a variety of museums in America, Canada and Europe presented as case studies. Underlying all of these discussions is a concern to chart the critical importance of the acquisition, placement and display of sculpture in museums and to explore the importance of sculptures as a forum for the expression of programmatic statements of power, prestige and the museum''s own sense of itself in relation to its audiences and its broader institutional aspirations.

A collection of essays which fundamentally question the meaning of the word iconoclasm as a descriptive category. These essays examine the impact of iconoclastic acts on different representational forms, and assess the development and historical implications of these various destructive and transformative behaviours.

Shows how key metaphors of Freudian and Kleinian psychoanalysis - splitting, projection, sublimation, identification, the schizoid and reparative mechanisms - as well as Lacan's concepts of the stade du mirroir and the objet petit, can be fruitfully applied to a range of modern three-dimensional art.

An examination of the varying roles and meanings assigned to sculpture in museums and galleries during the modern period, from neo-classical to contemporary art practice. This title considers an array of curatorial strategies and settings in order to examine the many reasons why sculpture has enjoyed a position of such considerable importance.

Encompassing new scholarship in several disciplines, drawn from both sides of the Channel, this book offers an in-depth account of Rodin's career in Britain in the period 1880-1914 and weaves this into a complex investigation of the interactions between British and French cultures.

Active during a complex period in France's intellectual history, Giacometti took on a number of different artistic styles in his work, and forged a remarkable set of affiliations with the writers and thinkers around him. This book focuses on important aspects of Giacometti's work and its reception.

Vitrines and glass cabinets are familiar apparatuses that have in large part defined modern modes of display and visibility, both within and beyond the museum. The twelve contributions to this volume examine some of the points of origin of the vitrine and the various relations it brokers with sculpture.

Giacometti: Critical Essays considers Giacometti's work and career from the 1920s to the 1960s via a series of specific contextual studies.

The institution of the pantheon has come a long way from its classical origins. Invented to describe a temple dedicated to many deities, the term later became so far removed from its original meaning, that by the twentieth century, it has been able to exist independently of any architectural and sculptural monument. This collection of essays is the first to trace the transformation of the monumental idea of the pantheon from its origins in Greek and Roman antiquity to its later appearance as a means of commemorating and enshrining the ideals of national identity and statehood. Illuminating the emergence of the pantheon in a range of different cultures and periods by exploring its different manifestations and implementations, the essays open new historical perspectives on the formation of national and civic identities.

This book brings together a collection of essays each of which fundamentally questions the meaning of the word iconoclasm as a descriptive category. Each contribution examines the impact of iconoclastic acts on different representational forms, and assesses the development and historical implications of these various destructive and transformative behaviours.