L’objet à l’œuvre dans l’art des British Young Artists by Charlotte Gould

“…The works of the Young British Artists, at the very end of the century, have suggested a way out of both the dematerialization process inaugurated by some of their elders and the very weighty materialism of the New Sculpture of the eighties with its “truth to material” motto, by adopting a lighter approach, unencumbered with history, which does away with the unbearable heaviness of things.…”
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Spécificités de la conservation muséale de fragments d'environnements d'art brut by Mélanie Paul-Hazard

“…This study is about sculptures coming from an outsider art environment in Normandy, now conserved in the LaM. …”
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Do apóstolo ao peregrino: a iconografia de São Tiago na escultura devocional medieval em Portugal by Begoña Farré Torras

“…The purpose of this article is to explore the evolving iconography of Saint James the Greater, as a pilgrim, in medieval votive sculpture in Portugal. The first part of the text focuses on the origins of this figuration in an Iberian context, taking into account two lines of influence: the iconography of Christ himself as a pilgrim, and popular imagery. …”
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Vito Acconci. Spaces of Play by Monica Manolescu

“…Various examples are analyzed, both literary and artistic (early texts, the emblematic Following Piece, which was one of the earliest examples of performance art, and The American Gift, combining sound and sculpture in a museum space). Acconci strikes a balance between freedom and constraint, playing with existing models according to set protocols in game-like fashion and offering a constantly renewed artistic practice.…”
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Les collaborations de Lucio Fontana avec Luciano Baldessari. Hypothèses pour un spatialisme de l’art et de l’architecture by Barbara Satre

“…This study of the creations born from their cooperation explores the key role of architecture in Fontana’s creative process and with the architecture-sculpture principle that Baldessari adopted in his constructions during this period. …”
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A Sometimes Mercurial Process: New Protocols for the Preservation of Singapore’s Time Based Art Collection by Mar Cruz

“…The conservation of Time Based Media (TBM) artwork deals in the world of bits, bytes, checksums and obsolescence, terms far different from the conservation of paper, paintings or sculpture. The processes behind the conservation of TBM artworks reflect the same esoteric nature. …”
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Remembering, History, and Identity: The Sculpted Life of Benjamin Franklin by Mert Deniz

“…The statues of Benjamin Franklin, honoring one of the most popularly acknowledged individuals in American history and social memory, perfectly exemplify the interrelation between history and memory.Benjamin Franklin, art history, social-cultural history, sculpture, remembering, memory, identity, narration…”
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Simulacra of emptiness. The model as habitable space by Elena Mucelli

“…In particular, the examination stems from the hypothesis that the more research is oriented towards the study of the relationship between emptiness and the human figure, the more the scale of the model chosen to experiment with spatial qualities approaches real life, a 1:1 scale, and employs an interdisciplinary approach to identify possible points of contact between research conducted in architecture, sculpture and photography.…”
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Franco Vaccari. Experiencing darkness towards Shamanism by Sergio Poggianella

“…This paper examines one of the most symbolic and meaningful artworks by Franco Vaccari, Dark Sculpture, an artwork/temporary performance in which darkness becomes a play of presence-absence, inspired, both conceptually and visually, by the transition from light to dark. …”
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Wooden Churches of Lithuania by Tiziana Campisi, Liucija Berežanskytė

“…The strong link between architecture and the uncontaminated nature of places defines the identity of architectures, so that they sometimes appear almost like a large wooden sculpture, carved in a unique piece. The meticulous knowledge of the buildings has created an atlas of construction techniques, proposing itself as a tool for the conservation and preservation of refined building heritage; the atlas is divided according to themes as wood species, processing methods, construction phases, mutual relationship between the various technical units.…”
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Pascal Häusermann et le motel L’Eau vive : une conception d’avant-garde ? by Alexandra Buvignier-Legros

“…For the hotel, the Swiss architect applied his new conception of housing and town planning linked with prospective architecture and sculpture architecture. He designed an ensemble of nine hotel units, as well as the reception area and caretaker’s lodgings, in a natural setting. …”
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Henry James’s Spectral Archaeology by Stefano Evangelista

“…Looking, at the same time, back to Prosper Merimée’s use of the fantastic in “La Venus d’Ille” (1837) and forwards to Sigmund Freud’s parallel between archaeology and psychoanalysis in “The Aetiology of Hysteria” (1896), James sets up an intricate set of relations and metaphorical correspondences between stone and language, sculpture and literature, antiquity and modernity, aesthetics and psychology. …”
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« 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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Les figurines de terre cuite de l’Aphrodision d’Argos by Hélène Aurigny, Francis Croissant

“…The terracotta figurines of the Aphrodision of Argos comprise a very rich corpus that sheds light on the creation of archaic Argive sculpture. This is especially the case for the type of the “seated female” that has a modeled body with a molded head. …”
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Dark Aesthete: Gothic Elements in the Fiction of Walter Pater by Geoffrey Johnston Sadock

“…Walter Pater is today celebrated for his imaginary portraits, ekphrastic meditations on landscape, paintings, and sculpture; for his aesthetic method and prose style. …”
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“She Loves Nothing but Her Art”: Vibrant Marble and the Agency of the Female Artist in Louisa May Alcott’s “A Marble Woman, or The Mysterious Model” by Verena Laschinger, Annemarie Mönch, and Sophia Klefisch

“…The protagonist’s true artistry, we realize, is not static sculpture but vibrant performance which renders her simultaneously as woman and marble, artist and an artwork.…”
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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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De Félix Martin-Sabon à Pierre Pradel, une histoire de plaques de verre by Anne-Bénédicte Mérel-Brandenburg

“…The richness of the corpus thus offers new objects of study, from the history of photography to a multidisciplinary approach: painting, sculpture, decorative arts, archaeology, museology and pedagogy.…”
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La femme allaitant des serpents et ses liens avec la Luxure by Raphaël Guesuraga

“…Since the nineteenth century, it is a fact recognized by all that the woman suckling snakes in Romanesque sculpture is a representation of lust. However, several elements would tend to strongly put in perspective this affirmation. …”
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À l’origine du culte du Précieux Sang de Fécamp, le Saint Voult de Lucques by Jean-Guy Gouttebroze

“…Inspired by God he chissels the face of Christ. This sculpture, the Holy Face, travels from the Holy Land to Lucca. …”
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