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Author:   Dr. Sharon Hecker (Independent Scholar, Independent Scholar, Italy) ,  Silvia Bottinelli (Tufts University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.760kg
ISBN:  

9781350196445

ISBN 10:   1350196444
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   06 May 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: To Be Continued... Silvia Bottinelli (Tufts University, USA) and Sharon Hecker (independent scholar) 1. A Most Insidious Poison Taking Advantage of our Necessities: A Brief Historical Introduction to Lead and Lead Poisoning, Christian Warren (Brooklyn College - The City University of New York, USA) 2. Lead’s Historic Transformations, Spike Bucklow (University of Cambridge, UK) 3. In the Backyard at Burcroft: Henry Moore’s Experiments in Lead, Rowan Bailey (University of Huddersfield, UK) 4. The Weakness of Lead: Materiality and Modern American Sculpture, Marin R. Sullivan (Harry Bertoia Foundation & Cheekwood Estate and Gardens, USA) 5. Due Process: Richard Serra's Early Splash/Cast Works, Jeffrey Weiss (The Institute of Fine Arts, USA) 6. Exorbitant Matter: Materiality According to Lynda Benglis, Luke Naessens (Princeton University, USA) 7. Lead in the Lexicon of Gilberto Zorio’s Sculpture, Elizabeth Mangini (California College of the Arts, USA) 8. The Stopping Power of Lead: Luciano Fabro, Giuseppe Penone, and Marisa Merz, Sharon Hecker (independent scholar) 9. “Mankind needs some lead so as to be somewhat heavier”: Beuys, Alchemy, and Duchamp, Claudia Mesch (Arizona State University, USA) 10. A Conversation with Remo Salvadori, Sharon Hecker (independent scholar) and Silvia Bottinellii (Tufts University, USA) Critical Introduction by Rosalind McKever (Victoria and Albert Museum, UK) 11. Two Views of Anselm Kiefer: In the Studio and In the Museum Kiefer Speaks About Lead with Karl Ove Knausgaard Loaded Lead: Anselm Kiefer in the Collection of the Israel Museum, Sharon Tager and Adina Kamien (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem) 12. Anthony Caro: Lead and Wood Sculptures. 1980–1989, Karen Wilkin (independent scholar) 13. The New British Sculpture and the Poetics and Pragmatics of Lead, Jon Wood (independent scholar) 14. Organizing Against an Invisible Threat. Lead According to Futurefarmers and Mel Chin, Silvia Bottinelli (Tufts University, USA) 15. An Interview with Daniela Rivera: The weight of lead and painting beyond the surface, Silvia Bottinelli (Tufts University, USA) and Sharon Hecker (independent scholar) Bibliography Index

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This fascinating book concerns that alluringly contradictory element, lead. Malleable, easily melted, strikingly heavy, insidiously toxic, its threats and promises have attracted those sculptors committed to addressing what Emily Dickinson termed the hour of lead . * Anne M. Wagner, Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley, USA * This important volume offers fresh ways of thinking about materiality in modern sculpture. Its wide-ranging explorations of artists' fascination with the physical substance and symbolic meanings of lead make for a genuinely intriguing and illuminating study. * Alex Potts, Max Loehr Collegiate Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, USA *

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Sharon Hecker is an art historian and curator specializing in modern and contemporary Italian art. A leading authority on Medardo Rosso, her books include A Moment’s Monument: Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture (2017), Postwar Italian Art History Today: Untying ‘The Knot’ (co-editor, 2018), and Finding Lost Wax: The Disappearance and Recovery of an Ancient Casting Technique and the Experiments of Medardo Rosso (2020). Silvia Bottinelli is Senior Lecturer in the Visual and Material Studies Department of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, USA. She is a widely published scholar of modern and contemporary art. Her recent books include Double-edged Comforts: Domestic Life in Modern Italian Art and Visual Culture (2021) and The Taste of Art: Cooking, Food, and Counterculture in Contemporary Practices (co-editor, 2017).

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