Tag Archives: Sculpture

Immersion

In the first post in this series, I discussed ways in which the space around a single figural sculpture becomes a tacit part of the artwork by virtue of the moving viewer’s interpretive act. In the second post, I considered … Continue reading

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Technology

In the previous post in this series, I considered how the pose and three-dimensionality of a figural sculpture support its interpretation. I noted that representational sculptures reside at the intersection of what is actual and what is virtual. Because it … Continue reading

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Diegesis

Poor Agostino di Duccio. He had learned his craft under the most innovative and imaginatively expressive sculptural master of the quattrocento, Donatello. But Agostino could not have been happy on the mountain in Carrara as he oversaw the quarrying of … Continue reading

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She’s five and a half feet tall and weighs about a ton

Once in a while, the world sees the discovery of an ancient artifact in good condition that isn’t a forgery.  In this case, excavators near Skopje have unearthed a relatively awesome late Roman Venus pudica: All too often, things like … Continue reading

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Stonehenge Honors the Dead

Turns out, as confirmed by radiocarbon dating of human remains discovered at the site, that Stonehenge was built on land already in use as a cemetery, and was therefore constructed with the dead in mind.  This evidence and its apparent … Continue reading

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