Author : Dr Claire Jones
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 147241523X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)
Book Synopsis Sculptors and Design Reform in France, 1848 to 1895 by : Dr Claire Jones
Download or read book Sculptors and Design Reform in France, 1848 to 1895 written by Dr Claire Jones and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging perceptions of sculpture and the autonomous artist, this book begins with a critique of the Rodin scholarship, to establish how the selective study of his oeuvre in particular, has obscured our understanding of French nineteenth-century sculpture. Drawing on new archival sources, sculptors and objects, this is the first sustained study of how and why French sculptors collaborated with state and private luxury goods manufacturers between 1848 and 1895. By contesting the false separation of art from industry, Claire Jones’s study restores the importance of the sculptor-manufacturer relationship, and of the decorative, to the history of sculpture.