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This title examines the complex ways that sculpture and photography have intersected, historically, aesthetically, and theoretically. Exploring the important role that images of sculpture have played in the history of photography, this volume also considers the impact that photography has had on the creation and interpretation of sculpture. The essays consider a wide range of topics, including the use of photography by Rodin, Brancusi, David Smith, and various Minimalist sculptors; the manipulation of photographs of sculpture for aesthetic and political purposes; the relationship between sculpture, photography, and gender in the late nineteenth century, as well as in the work of Hesse and Mapplethorpe; and the redefinition of the boundaries between sculpture and photography by artists such as Joseph Beuys and Jeff Wall. Using a variety of approaches, this volume also considers photography as a means of representing three-dimensional works of art.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction
• Sculpture and photography: envisioning the third dimension
• 1 Nineteenth-century photographic depictions of sculpture and the rhetoric of substitution
• 2 The mystification of antiquity under Pius IX: Rome 1846-1878 Mary Bergstein
• 3 Eakins's Arcadia: sculpture, photography, and the redefinition of the classical body
• 4 Montrer est la question vitale: Rodin and photography
• 5 Modelling the body: physical culture, photography, and the classical ideal in fin-de-siecle
• 6 Sculpture's negative: the photography of Constantin
• 7 Malraux and the power of photography
• 8 Private views/public images: David Smith's photographs
• 9 Splitting the index: time, object, and photography in the work of
• 10 Striking poses: the absurdist theatrics of
• 11 The minimalist object and the photographic image
• 12 A lazy man's approach: Robert Mapplethorpe and the language of sculpture
• 13 Sculpture, photography, and the politics of public space: Serra's Tilted Arc and Lin's Vietnam veterans memorial
• 14 The space of anxiety: sculpture and photography in the work of

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CHOICE Review

During the past several years, this publisher has addressed the relatively recent methodological upheavals in art historical inquiry through the intriguing series "Studies in New Art History and Criticism," of which Sculpture and Photography is the latest. Editor Johnson has assembled an impressive array of art historians and critics from the US, England, and France, such as Tamar Garb, Briony Fer, Henri Zerner, Anna C. Chave, William Hood, Hel\ene Pinet, and Joan Pachner. They and Johnson, who contributes the introduction as well as an essay on public works of Richard Serra and Maya Lin, present fresh, insightful, and well-written essays on Eakins, Brancusi, Malraux, David Smith, Eva Hesse, Mapplethorpe, Jeff Wall, Beuys, Yves Klein, Serra, Lin, Minimalists, as well as more open-ended essays such as the "Mystification of Antiquity under Pius IX" and "Modeling the Body: Photography, Physical Culture, and the Classical Idea in Fin-de-Si`ecle France." This plethora of timely and substantial topics is complemented by some 100 good-quality black-and-white images, good endnotes, a fine index, and paragraphs on each author. Well designed and bound, this title is recommended for readers concerned with modern and contemporary art, despite the book's high price relative to its length and lack of color images. General readers; undergraduates through faculty. J. Weidman; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art