
Photography and Sculpture - The Art Object in Reproduction
Getty Publications (Publisher)
Published on 1. December 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-1-60606-534-1 (ISBN)
Description
Ever since the mid-nineteenth century, when the new medium of photography was pressed into service to illustrate sculpture, photographs of sculptural objects have directed viewers as to just when, in the course of ambling around a sculpture, was the single perfect moment to stop and look. What is the photograph's place in writing the history of sculpture? How has it changed according to culture, generation, critical conviction, and changes in media? Photography and Sculpture: The Art Object in Reproduction studies aspects of these questions from the perspectives of sixteen leading art historians. Chapters on such varied topics as picturing Conceptual art, manipulating sacred images in India to be nonphotographs, and framing Roman art with an iPad illustrate the latent visual and narrative powers and ever-expanding potential of these images of sculpture.
Reviews / Votes
." . . the anthology has been effectively and cohesively organized to present the photography of sculpture as a development whose end has yet to be written."--Burlington magazine "Overall, the book is thought-provoking and readable, and the interdisciplinary approach makes it appropriate for libraries that support programs in art history, photography, aesthetics, archaeology, visual culture, and architecture."--ARLIS/NA
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Los Angeles
United States
Publishing group
Getty Trust Publications
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
19 color + 77 b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 182 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
931 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60606-534-1 (9781606065341)
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Persons
Sarah Hamill is assistant professor of modern and contemporary art at Oberlin College. Megan R. Luke is assistant professor of art history at the University of Southern California.