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Volume 33, Issue 1 is a Special Issue titled ‘Tender Hands, Rough Stone’, contributions discuss myths and fictions of sculptural making and materials from a longue-durée perspective, linking case studies on women sculptors with broader questions about the history of sculpture.

 

It aims to provide a fresh view of the interrelationship between the materials and making of sculpture, and the conception of ‘the sculptor’ (male and female) in art literature.

 

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Table of contents

 

INTRODUCTION

 

INTRODUCTION: TENDER HANDS AND ROUGH STONE: SCULPTURE’S STEREOTYPES OF GENDER AND MAKING

ANNA FRASCA-RATH

 

RESEARCH ARTICLES

IMAGINING WOMEN WORKING STONE: THE ANCIENT SCULPTOR MARCIA IN BOCCACCIO’S DE MULIERIBUS AND RESPONSES IN FIFTEENTH- AND SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ART LITERATURE

ANNA FRASCA-RATH

 

‘ANYBODY CAN DO SCULPTURE, IT IS PURELY MECHANICAL’: HARRIET G. HOSMER AND THE RELATION BETWEEN SCULPTURE, REPRODUCTION AND MACHINE INVENTION

BUKET ALTINOBA

 

‘DEATH, LIKE A SCULPTOR’: ARCHAEOLOGY, MATERIALS AND TEXT IN HARRIET HOSMER’S POMPEIAN SENTINEL

MELISSA L. GUSTIN

 

ELASTICITY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY SCULPTURE

URSULA STRÖBELE

 

REVIEWS

REVIEWS

 

Simone Leigh Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 6 April–4 September 2023 Eva Respini (ed.), Simone Leigh (exh. cat.) New York and Boston, Delmonico Books/Institute of Contemporary Art, 2023, ISBN 978-1-63681-078-2, by Lexington Davis.

 

Escala: Escultura 1945–2000 Fundación Juan March, Madrid, 31 March–2 July 2023 P. Curtis, M. F. del Junco and I. Vallejo (eds), Escala: Escultura 1945–2000 (exh. cat.) Fundación Juan March, Madrid, 2023, ISBN 978-84-7075-684-9, by Stefaan Vervoort.

 

Emmanuel Lamouche, Les fondeurs de bronze dans la Rome des papes (1585–1630) Rome, École Française de Rome, 2022, ISBN 978-2-72831-515-4, by Evonne Levy.

 

Ylva Haidenthaller, The Medal in Early Modern Sweden. Significances and Practices Mediehistorisk arkiv 52, Lund, Föreningen Mediehistorisk arkiv, 2021, ISBN 978-91-985800-4-4 (print), 978-91-985800-5-1 (pdf), by Aleksandra Lipińska.

 

 

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

CONTRIBUTORS

 

 

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