Regard rapproché, regard éloigné dans la critique d’art, de Diderot à Huysmans by Michel Delon

“…It contrasts painting (an art of adding colour that requires the viewer to step back) to sculpture (an art of subtracting matter that requires the viewer to step forward). …”
Get full text

La peinture moderniste by Clement Greenberg

“…Elle s’oppose alors à la sculpture et se rattache donc à une longue tradition anti-sculpturale : celle-ci a commencé quand la peinture insistait sur la couleur, puis continua au xixe siècle, alors qu’elle mettait l’accent sur l’optique pure. …”
Get full text

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. …”
Get full text

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. …”
Get full text

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. …”
Get full text

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. …”
Get full text

Bilge Kağan Hazinesinin Gün Yüzüne Çıkarılması: Bilge Kağan Anıt Alanı Kazı Çalışmaları by Kürşat KOÇAK, L. Gürkan GÖKÇEK

“…It was searced mainly the surface in July and August. The sculptures depicting Bilge Kağan an his wife, and other sculptures except from the tablets around Kül Tigin’s monument site were put under protection by TİKA. …”
Get full text

Au‑delà de la frontière binaire du genre : les personnages sculptés recuay (100‑700 apr. J.‑C., sierra nord-centrale du Pérou) by Alexia Moretti

“…This is precisely the aim of this study on anthropomorphic stone sculptures belonging to the Recuay pre‑Hispanic Andean tradition. …”
Get full text

La construction de l’image du corps de l’élite égyptienne à l’époque amarnienne by Cathie Spieser, Pierre Sprumont

“…Based upon several marks present on the sculptures, the authors do not exclude the possibility of a deformation practice operated on the persons having served as models. …”
Get full text

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. …”
Get full text

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.…”
Get full text

Von zierlich kleinen und monumentalen Werksteinen – Bauskulptur aus der ehemaligen Klosterkirche von St. Gallen by Guido Faccani, Martin P. Schindler

“…Mais, à l’aide des quelques rapports préliminaires, on peut restituer l’emplacement des œuvres et proposer ainsi leur datation, surtout pour les sculptures monumentales.…”
Get full text

Digital Viau : histoire et aléas d’un projet en humanités numériques by Léa Saint-Raymond

“…This article aims to retrace the development of a research project, Digital Viau, which combines digital humanities and art history, in order to present, in the form of a digital library deployed with Omeka, the collection of paintings, graphic arts and sculptures constituted by George Viau in the first half of the 20th century. …”
Get full text

The Study Collection of Figurative Terracottas in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Critical Review by Jaimee Uhlenbrock

“…Although little information on these terracottas, vases, minor sculptures, and coins is provided in this gallery, the lack of this information does not particularly hinder the ability to engage with these objects for study purposes that then can provide the foundation for further research.…”
Get full text

An approach to cleaning methods and materials for painted alabaster by Raquel Diogo, Elena Aguado-Guardiola, Fernando Costa, João Coroado

“…This research is aimed to obtain a deeper understanding of the chemical properties of painted alabaster sculptures as well as some of their ageing mechanisms in order to design cleaning protocols which take into account the particular changing nature of these dynamic and complex systems.Materials and some chemical properties (pH, conductivity and water solubility) of the case studyhave been characterised. …”
Get full text

Study of the mechanical properties of mortars based on organic binders used in the reproduction of outdoor artworks by Alba Cerezo, Xavier Mas-Barber, Stéphane Kröner

“…This work focuses on the characterization of organic resin bound mortars, used in reproductions of sculptural and ornamental stone exposed outdoors. The specimens were prepared from two commonly used organic binders in the scope of Culture Heritage Conservation/ Restoration, natural aggregates of crushed Tosca Rocafort limestone and three different additives. …”
Get full text

Couleurs et plantes colorantes dans l’art yoruba Enquête de terrain by Louis Fagbohoun , Cathy Vieillescazes , Carole Mathe, Camille Romeggio

“…This paper explores the colored material found on yoruba sculptures (Nigeria/Benin). These pictorial layers are little known in particular their binder, but also on the fact that plant colouring agents can be used, except usual ochre and kaolin. …”
Get full text

A presúria de “Uilla Coua” e as origens do Mosteiro de Lorvão by Manuel Luís Real

“…Both the Asturian type of the east end of the high-medieval basilica, discovered in 1984, and the style of the only surviving sculptural frieze, reminiscent of the art found in the diocese of Coimbra during the 9th century and early 10th century, contribute to support this proposal.…”
Get full text

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. …”
Get full text

A morte de Odin? As representações do Ragnarök na arte das Ilhas Britânicas (séc. X) by Johnni Langer

“…The main sources are images carved in crosses, funerary sculptures and reliefs in blocks. As the main methodology, we analyze the representations in comparison with the Icelandic literary sources and the images available in the Scandinavian area during the Viking Age, especially on the island of Gotland (continuities, ruptures, variations and reappropriations of Nordic visual culture). …”
Get full text