Exploring key issues for the anthropology of art and art theory, this fascinating text provides the first in-depth study of community art from an anthropological perspective. The book focuses on the thirty-five year history of the Free Form Arts Trust, an arts group that played …
Exploring key issues for the anthropology of art and art theory, this fascinating text provides the first in-depth study of community art from an anthropological perspective. The book focuses on the thirty-five year history of the Free Form Arts Trust, an arts group that played …
This is an illustrated study of the reception of classical sculptures in the early modern period. Viccy Coltman contrasts the culture of British 18th century collecting, which integrated sculpture into the domestic interior, with the focus upon individual specimens by archaeolog…
This is a book about classical sculptures in the early modern period, centuries after the decline and fall of Rome, when they began to be excavated, restored, and collected by British visitors in Italy in the second half of the eighteenth century. Viccy Coltman contrasts the pre…
In The Color of Stone, Charmaine A. Nelson brilliantly analyzes a key but often neglected aspect of neoclassical sculpture: color. Considering three major works-Hiram Powers's Greek Slave, William Wetmore Story's Cleopatra, and Edmonia Lewis's Death of Cleopatra-she explores the…