Contemporary Sculpture: Artists' Writings and Interviews
- Submitting institution
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Leeds Beckett University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 30
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Hatje Cantz
- ISBN
- 9783775733472
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This edited volume brings together a selection of essays, interviews, letters, poems and other texts by an international range of artists which all deal with different understandings of ‘sculpture’ from 1990 to the present day. The volume explores sculptural processes, figurative strategies and the contexts for installing, displaying and viewing sculpture and sculptural work by contemporary artists. It includes texts by Jan De Cock, Krysten Cunningham, Ryan Gander, Katharina Grosse, Sarah Lucas, Hew Locke, Nathaniel Mellors and Cathy Wilkes, among others, anthologizing 50 texts in total.
The volume comes out of an ongoing interest in contemporary sculptural practice and how we understand this, particularly through artists’ own recorded statements. It allows artists’ own words to take precedence in shaping the discourse of sculpture in contemporary practice, a key element of the book’s original contribution to the field. A related paper I delivered at the Polish Sculpture Centre in 2016 was published as ‘Talking Sculpture: Histories of Contemporary Sculpture- Histories in Contemporary Sculpture’, in Eulalia Domanowska and Marta Smolińska (eds), Rzeźba Dzisiaj/Sculpture Today, Orońsko: Polish Sculpture Centre, 2016, pp. 189-95.
The research behind this volume was based on extensive communications with many of the artists included, and many of the interviews and statements are previously unpublished, having been generated specifically for the publication. The volume is published in cooperation with the Cragg Foundation/Waldfrieden Sculpture Park in Wuppertal, in both English and German editions, allowing it to reach a wide readership. Its publisher, Hatje Cantz, is an established name in international art publishing with a renowned specialism in contemporary art. A recent review by Dawna Schuld (Texas A&M University) stresses its ‘diversity of entries’, going on to state that ‘its most significant contribution is to provoke curiosity about the process of sculpture and sculpture making’ (Sculpture Journal 30.1, 2021, pp. 104-6).
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- Non-English
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