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2019, Abstraction Matters: Contemporary Sculptors in Their Own Words
From the archaic funerary and sacred stones to the most recent three-dimensional objects, sculpture has been determined by a dualistic tension between the urge for imitation of natural forms (mimesis) and the desire to freely shape autonomous configurations (abstraction). Within such a complex history, the second half of the 20th century has been a particularly intense period. Besides their abstract works, many sculptors developed an extraordinarily rich theoretical discourse. This collection of essays presents some of the most eminent protagonists of this crucial historical moment by focusing on the artists’ “own words”. In their analysis, the contributors have followed three key-notions – “Sensation”, “Idea”, and “Language” – that fruitfully collect different artists under a common conceptual arch and show the aesthetic relevance of abstraction in sculpture. This book addresses high-level undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the scholarly community in the fields of aesthetics and art criticism, art history and art theory, visual, cultural and media studies. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/abstraction-matters
Theories of women artists and the conditions for studio-based sculpture, in conjunction with the exhibition catalog, Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016
Abstraction Matters. Contemporary Sculptors in Their Own Words, 2019
The essay focuses on Robert Morris’s theoretical writings, particularly on Notes on Sculpture, published in the 1960s. Morris epitomizes the historical and anthropological idea of sculpture, and his connection with the human body and the beholder’s place. The change of scale produces a perceptual alteration and a new experience of sculpture whose identity swings between the monument and the object. The contemporary abstract sculpture requires a complex experience and consciousness from the beholder, inciting a new reflection on space and time.
Text written in 2005 for Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, The Netherlands, for a symposium about the nature of sculpture.
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Philosophy of Sculpture: Historical Problems, Contemporary Approaches, 2020
ArtGRID - Journal of Architecture Engineering and Fine Arts, 2023
This study explores the complex relationship between the meaning of sculpture and its making process in the context of the philosophy of language. Sculpture is a unique art form that involves the creation of three-dimensional objects that occupy physical space. However, the meaning of a sculpture is not limited to its spatial characteristics alone. This study identifies two distinct levels of meaning in sculpture: its relation to space and its making process. While the former has received considerable attention in the literature, the latter has been largely overlooked. Therefore, this study focuses on the semantic relationship between Richard Serra's sculptures and his sculpture-making processes, particularly in his early works. Richard Serra is widely regarded as one of the most important artists of the Process Art movement, which emerged in the 1960s and emphasizes the importance of the making process in art. The study questions the reduction of the meaning of sculpture to a mere action and seeks to establish a deeper relationship between the philosophy of language and the process of sculpture. To achieve this, the study draws on the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin, and John R. Searle, who are some of the most important philosophers of language of the 20th century. Wittgenstein's concept of language games and his emphasis on the social context of language use is particularly relevant to this study. The study explores how Serra's sculpture-making processes can be seen as a form of language game, with its own rules and conventions. Similarly, Austin's concept of performative language provides a framework for understanding how the making process of a sculpture can be seen as a form of performative action. The study also draws on Searle's theory of speech acts, which suggests that language use is not just a matter of describing the world, but also of performing actions and creating new realities. Overall, this study represents an important contribution to the field of art and philosophy. By exploring the relationship between the meaning of sculpture and its making process, the study challenges traditional notions of art and raises important questions about the nature of meaning and representation in art. The study also demonstrates the relevance of the philosophy
… Transactions of the Royal Society of …, 2003
In her text Sculpture in the Expanded Field, originally published in 1979 by October magazine, Rosalind Krauss proposes a new approach to space, one that radically surpasses the limits of the traditional notion of sculpture in three-dimensional art production and that is regarded as part of the transition to post-modernity. Many consider her article to have become a reference in the field. In this text I intend to highlight the author's main arguments and to discuss them, subsequently. There is an attempt to deepen reflections concerning questions about space in the field of art. In the end, I propose an approach to the study of the mechanisms that involve spatial issues in artistic creation, focused on the nature of the relationship between work and interlocutor.
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