« Quelque chose de rouge » : l’esthétique des tableaux vivants dans Salammbô by Dominique Jullien

“…A cultural practice which reached its peak popularity during the Second Empire, the tableau vivant intersects theater, painting, photography, and sculpture, genres and media which Flaubert sought either to emulate or to rival in his writing. …”
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The Dumbarton Oaks Tlazolteotl: looking beneath the surface by Jane MacLaren Walsh

“…Using the Dumbarton Oaks Tlazolteotl sculpture as a case study, the article presents the results of archival research to flesh out the object’s acquisition history and analysis using scanning electron microscopy to determine whether pre-Columbian lapidary technology was used to fashion the artifact, or whether it was carved or reworked in modern times.…”
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Olabiyi Babalola J. Yai (1939-2020): Philosopher, Polymath, Humanist by Sanya Osha

“…Yai’s writing, in other words,was an exercise in textural sculpture, akin to a furnace of skewed intellectual contestation, and a work of unyielding scribal architecture. …”
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Unveiling the Original Polychromy of Archaic Architecture: The Gigantomachy on the West Pediment of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi (6th c. B.C.) by Giasemi G. Frantzi, Georgios P. Mastrotheodoros, Panayiotis Theoulakis, Sotiria Kogou, Athanasia Psalti, Hariclia Brecoulaki

“…The Gigantomachy depicted on the west pediment of the Late Archaic temple of Apollo at Delphi marks a significant milestone in early Greek architectural sculpture. Crafted from porous stone and enhanced with plaster and paint, the surviving fragments differ markedly from the marble figures of the east pediment of the same temple. …”
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Unique Design of Learning Studio Spaces: A Case Study of The Department of Applied Design and Fine Art Kabale University. by Akatwijuka, Onesmus

“…It can be for the purpose of acting, architecture, painting, pottery (ceramics), sculpture, origami, woodworking, scrapbooking, photography, graphic design, filmmaking, animation, industrial design, radio or television production broadcasting or the making of music. …”
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Unique Design of Learning Studio Spaces: A Case Study of the Department of Applied Design and Fine Art Kabale University. by Akatwijuka, Onesmus

“…It can be for the purpose of acting, architecture, painting, pottery (ceramics), sculpture, origami, woodworking, scrapbooking, photography, graphic design, filmmaking, animation, industrial design, radio or television production broadcasting or the making of music. …”
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Une cave à amphores, une statue en pierre et une tête coupée de la fin de l’âge du Fer à Châteaumeillant (Cher) by Sophie Krausz, Caroline Millereux, Marion Bouchet, Fabienne Olmer

“…The statue was lying face down, 10 cm from the human skull. This sculpture represents a male figure, whose head and right hand were preserved; the hand is holding a ring to the centre of the chest. …”
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The Landbound Chicken and the Deliberate Chameleon yet have their Uses: Yorùbá Art History, Language, and Interpretation. by Kathy Curnow

“…His argument produces numerous salie observations and the viewing framework he creates provides an exceedingly valuable set of lenses for interpreting Yorùbá sculpture. However, the question posed above remains intriguing, and is more complex than it appears. …”
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L’enterrement d’une triade divine féminine à Lugdunum : étude du dépôt de la place d’Albon à Lyon (Métropole de Lyon) by Lucas Guillaud, Emmanuel Bernot, Aline Colombier-Gougouzian, Amaury Gilles, Nicolas Garnier

“…The Lyon group of three mother goddesses seated on a bench is therefore, to our knowledge, a unique example of Roman small sculpture. No group of three of this type is recorded in the scientific literature, although some isolated statuettes have similar characteristics to our objects. …”
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Kształtowanie przez dzieci form przestrzennych – doniesienie z badań by Ewa Piwowarska

“…The theoretical considerations raised in this article relate to the educational values of perceiving sculptures by children, and shaping spatial forms of plasticine by them. …”
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Ikere-Ekiti in Art and Cultural Narratives by dele jegede

“…Ikere came to in­ternational attention through the vlrtuoslc sculptures of one of Africa's master carvers--Olowe (ca. 1873-1938), who lived in Ise-Ekiti, a town about 15 miles east of Ikere. …”
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Ruínas de mundos perdidos: a estética residual de Brennand by Ana Luiza Andrade

“…Besides analyzing Brennand’s heads as remainders of worlds which were lost in catastrophes, it relates Brennand’s sculptures to ruins in the works of some writers and poets such as Osman Lins, Antonio José Ponte, João Cabral de Melo Neto and Jorge Luis Borges.…”
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Algunas reflexiones sobre la representación del tiempo en la imaginería maya antigua by Erik Velásquez García

“…This work registers and explores some of the many strategies that Mayan artists of the Classic period (AD 250-900) used to represent or suggest the flow of time: the containment of sculptural volumes, the manipulation of dates, the conventional distribution of figures in the pictorial field, the juxtaposition of different times and spaces, the simultaneous angles of view, the displacement between causes (indicated in the texts) and their effects (represented in the images), the sequence in praesentia, the sequence in absentia, and the peripeteia or eloquent instant that suggests psychologically the feeling of change or turning. …”
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Architecture antique entre âge du Fer et époque impériale en Provence : les piliers du site de Château-Bas à Vernègues by Sandrine Agusta-Boularot, Raphaël Golosetti

“…The architectural study of the fragments and comparison with other sculptural elements from southern Gaul suggest they date approximately to the turn of the millenium. …”
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Images of person in an Amerindian society. An ethnographic account of Kuna woodcarving by Paolo Fortis

“…By analysing the making of wooden anthropomorphic figures and the Kuna exegesis of it, along with some comparative examples from other Amerindian societies, this article argues for an understanding of the sculptural representation of the human figure as an instantiation of alterity. …”
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Facade decoration in the architecture of Dragiša Brašovan and Milan Zloković by Novaković Aleksa

“…In line with this, many of the leading architects of this period, including Dragiša Brašovan (1887-1965) and Milan Zloković (1898-1965), incorporated facade plastic and sculptural decoration into their works. The stylistic development of ornamentation was conditioned by Academicist and Classicist tendencies on the one hand, and the emergence and popularization of Art Deco and Modernism on the other. …”
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Les notions de fūkei, de ba et de fukkō au cœur d’un projet collectif artistique by Catherine Grout

“…Composed of two landscape sculptures, the work was integral to the process of forming and establishing a community.…”
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The Notions of Fūkei, Ba, and Fukkō in a Community Art Project by Catherine Grout

“…Composed of two landscape sculptures, the work was integral to the process of forming and establishing a community.…”
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Pointing out persuasion in Philemon by P.B. Decock

“…This encyclopedia surveys not only sermons and commentaries, but also the various ways in which biblical texts have been received, such as in the creative arts, including paintings, sculptures, novels, films and music. Professor Tolmie’s study, however, focuses on how commentators and preachers have “pointed out persuasion” in this Pauline letter. …”
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Exhausting the (Human) Problem by Annalaura Alifuoco

“…This article explores exhaustion as both existential condition and methodological proposition—a way to sidestep the human(ist) problem of solutionism. Through the sculptural works of Berlinde De Bruyckere, where organic and synthetic matters merge in states of suspension, we witness exhaustion’s capacity to reshape relations between bodies, forms, and forces. …”
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