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Sculpture
Edited by Frédéric Lefrançois (Université Des Antilles, CNRS)
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| Summary | For Vasari, who was a pioneer in the field of Renaissance art studies, sculpture belongs to the field of visual arts, and is related to drawing. However, according to Paul Claudel, this artistic category is characterized by another specificity: the "need to touch", and the idealization of beauty which elicits the connection between matter and form. The haptic drive is not, therefore, the only element informing the aesthetic moment occurring when one apprehends three-dimension sculptured objects. From the hellenic period to our modern times, sculptors have translated worlds of ideas and ideals into the field of sensitive and sensible forms, thereby helping aesthetic thought to transcend the purely naturalistic, anthropomorphic idealization of the body. |
| Key works | Sculpture is concerned by an array of philosophical issues encompassing the challenge of three-dimensionality, the essence of physicality, as well as time- and ethics- related aspects. On claiming that "everyone must sculpt the statue of his or her self", Plato expressed his metaphysical conception of sculpture (Cf. the Republic, and the Meno). Considered as a copy of the self, the anthropomorphic statue of the hellenic world stood for an immortalized and timeless embodiment of the soul. As in all antique civilizations concerned with war damages, architecture and painting were seen as prone to disappear more easily than sculpure. But during Renaissance Art, a man-centred vision of harmony gave prominence over the absolutism of symmetry Russo 2003. Such views differ from the modern aesthetics influenced by Heidegger Lorentzen 2019. A more comprehensive and contemporary approach to the philosophy of sculpture will provide new insights on the reception of non-Western aesthetics, including the Yoruba or Indian aesthetics that have developed parallel but different conceptions of the sculptural art Mitchell 2010. |
| Introductions | Brook 1963; Lefrançois 2019; Sundar 2004; Babatunde 1974; Bieber 1956 |
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- Vertiginous Acedie.Gavin Keeney - manuscriptReview of “Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union: New Art from Russia,” Saatchi Gallery, London, England, and “Calder After the War,” Pace Gallery, London, England, April 2013. A version of this essay appeared in the Appendices of Gavin Keeney, Not-I/Thou: The Other Subject of Art and Architecture (CSP, 2014), pp. 157-60.
- Leonardo's figures, the materiality of lombard sculpture and the aesthetics of the "moti".Mira Becker-Sawatzky - forthcoming - Leonardo in Dialogue / Edited by Francesca Borgo, Rodolfo Maffeis, Alessandro Nova.Remove from this listExport citation
Bookmark - The Indecent Body of Sculpture: Theodor Storms Realist Psyche.Catriona MacLeod - forthcoming - .Stubbornly associated with eighteenth-century neoclassical aesthetics, in the nineteenth century sculpture comes under scrutiny as a species of obsolete, sensualistic object. This essay considers the ambivalent status of sculpture in German Realist Theodor Storms novella _Psyche_. Storms text is preoccupied with questions of decency and indecency, questions that were raised not only by Storm himself, but by contemporary reviewers, as well as viewers of sculpture in the novella. _Psyche_, this chapter argues, flirts with the eroticism of antique sculpture, but also (...)Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Monsters and Monuments: Real Spaces and the Survival of Art.Jakub Stejskal - forthcoming - Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics.A truism of art history is that the lifespan of artworks can exceed their original social spaces: Artworks can sometimes be successfully transplanted into completely different settings where they continue to be valued. Does their potential to outlive their original context have to do with a specific feature of artworks’ ontology? Or with how human brains are wired? Or is it a mere function of their historical and social circumstances? I argue that David Summers’s magisterial _Real Spaces: World Art History (...)
- Network Sculpture.Jane Tingley - forthcoming - Mind and Matter: Comparative Approaches Towards Complexity;[... Based on the Symposium... Which Took Place 2010 in the Context of the Paraflows Festival in Vienna].Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Imagining Dinosaurs.Michel-Antoine Xhignesse - forthcoming - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.There is a tendency to take mounted dinosaur skeletons at face value, as the raw data on which the science of paleontology is founded. But the truth is that mounted dinosaur skeletons are substantially intention-dependent—they are artifacts. More importantly, I argue, they are also substantially imagination-dependent: their production is substantially causally reliant on preparators’ creative imaginations, and their proper reception is predicated on audiences’ recreative imaginations. My main goal here is to show that dinosaur skeletal mounts are plausible candidates for (...)
- When Paintings Argue.Gilbert Plumer - 2024 - Philosophy 99 (3):379-407.[Winner of the American Philosophical Association’s 2024 Journal of Value Inquiry Prize.] My thesis is that certain non-verbal paintings such as Picasso’s GUERNICA make (simple) arguments. If this is correct and the arguments are reasonably good, it would indicate one way that non-literary art can be cognitively valuable, since argument can provide the justification needed for knowledge or understanding. The focus is on painting, but my findings seem applicable to comparable visual art forms (a sculpture is also considered). My approach (...)
- The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture.Noël Carroll & Jonathan Gilmore (eds.) - 2022 - Routledge.Comprised of 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture is the first handbook of its kind. The editors have organized the chapters helpfully across eight parts: I: Artforms II: History III: Questions of Form, Style, and Address IV: Art and Science V: Comparisons among the Arts VI: Questions of Value VII: Philosophers of Art VIII: Institutional Questions Individual topics include art and cognitive science, (...)
- Sculpture in Herder’s Naturalist Aesthetics.Whitney Davis - 2022 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 80 (2):239-243.
- Conservation and Restoration.Rafael De Clercq - 2022 - In Noël Carroll & Jonathan Gilmore (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture. Routledge. pp. 452-459.This chapter surveys the ethical and metaphysical issues raised by the restoration of paintings and sculptures.
- How Statues Speak.David Friedell & Shen-yi Liao - 2022 - The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 80 (4):444-452.We apply a familiar distinction from philosophy of language to a class of material artifacts that are sometimes said to “speak”: statues. By distinguishing how statues speak at the locutionary level versus at the illocutionary level, or what they say versus what they do, we obtain the resource for addressing two topics. First, we can explain what makes statues distinct from street art. Second, we can explain why it is mistaken to criticize—or to defend—the continuing presence of statues based only (...)
- Should Slavery’s Statues Be Preserved? On Transitional Justice and Contested Heritage.Joanna Burch-Brown - 2020 - Journal of Applied Philosophy (5):807-824.What should we do with statues and place‐names memorializing people who committed human‐rights abuses linked to slavery and postslavery racism? In this article, I draw on UN principles of transitional justice to address this question. I propose that a successful approach should meet principles of transitional justice recognized by the United Nations, including affirming rights to justice, truth, reparations, and guarantees of nonrecurrence of human rights violations. I discuss four strategies for handling contested heritage, examining strengths and weaknesses of each (...)
- Du mourir de la statue aux procédés justes de l’oblitération : Levinas face à l’œuvre de Sosno.Cesare Del Mastro - 2020 - Nouvelle Revue d'Esthétique 25 (1):107-119.Cet article se donne pour tâche d’étudier la manière dont l’exposition à l’art d’oblitération du sculpteur Sacha Sosno conduit Levinas à décrire les portées ontologique et éthique de la pratique de la rature appliquée à des sculptures archétypales de l’art classique : oblitération par le vide (découpe, percée, trouée) et oblitération par le plein (obtusion, enserrement). Quarante-deux ans après avoir considéré – dans « La réalité et son ombre » (1948) – que seule l’exégèse philosophique de l’art peut réintégrer l’œuvre (...)
- Arrest: the Politics and Transcendence of Aesthetic Arrest Qua Protest.Ekin Erkan - 2020 - AEQAI.Recently, given the fomenting protests following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery (amongst countless others), much discussion has erupted amongst contemporary artist-activists about the proper place for art and the aestheticization of politics. This is, of course, by no means a novel conversation. Historically, the aestheticization of politics has been disparaged perhaps most vocally by those such as Adorno and Horkheimer, but this critique has its most well-known roots in Plato. Plato’s critique is levelled at the (...)
- Aesthetics of expression in contemporary Sudan sculpture.M. S. Hamzah & M. A. J. Alkilabi - 2020 - Int. J. Psychosoc. Rehab. International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation 24 (6):17641-17654.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- The Sculpted Image?Robert Hopkins - 2020 - In Fred Rush, Ingvild Torsen & Kristin Gjesdal (eds.), Philosophy of Sculpture: Historical Problems, Contemporary Approaches. Routledge. pp. 187-205.Representational pictures and sculptures both present their objects visually: to grasp what they represent is in some sense to see, not only the representation before one, but the object represented. But is the form of visual presentation the same? Or does a deep difference lie at the heart of our experience of these representations, a difference in how each presents us with its object? Almost all philosophical discussion of pictures and 3D representations has assumed or implied a negative answer to (...)
- Materials and Meaning in Contemporary Sculpture.Sherri Irvin - 2020 - In Fred Rush, Ingvild Torsen & Kristin Gjesdal (eds.), Philosophy of Sculpture: Historical Problems, Contemporary Approaches. Routledge. pp. 165-186.An extensive literature about pictorial representation discusses what is involved when a two-dimensional image represents some specific object or type of object. A smaller literature addresses parallel issues in sculptural representation. But little has been said about the role played by the sculptural material itself in determining the meanings of the sculptural work. Appealing to Nelson Goodman and Catherine Elgin’s discussions of literal and metaphorical exemplification, I argue that the material of which a sculpture is constituted plays key roles in (...)
- Old statues, new meanings. Literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence for Christian reidentification of statuary.Ine Jacobs - 2020 - Byzantinische Zeitschrift 113 (3):789-836.This article examines literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence for the Christian reidentification of statuary and reliefs as biblical scenes and protagonists, saints and angels. It argues that Christian identifications were promulgated, amongst others by local bishops, to make sense of imagery of which the original identity had been lost and/or was no longer meaningful. Three conditions for a new identification are discussed: the absence of an epigraphic label, geographical and/or chronological distance separating the statue from its original context of display, (...)
- Sculptural Plasticity.Rowan Bailey - 2019 - Philosophy Today 63 (4):1093-1109.This essay explores “sculptural plasticity” through neuronal matterings of the brainbody in philosophy, literature, and art. It focuses on Socrates’s cataleptic condition as evidenced in Plato’s Symposium, the plasticities at work in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea, and morphogenetic acts of cell formation in the sculptural installation of Pierre Huyghe’s After ALife Ahead.
- Ovid, Art, and Eros.Paul Barolsky - 2019 - Arion 27 (2):169-176.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Ovid, Art, and Eros PAUL BAROLSKY OVIDIO, AMORI, miti e altre storie or Ovid: Loves, Myths, and Other Stories is the copiously illustrated catalogue to the monumental exhibition mounted in 2008–2009 at the Scuderie del Quirinale, in Rome, in celebration of the great Roman poet and his world. This handsome tome is many books in one: a beautiful album of color plates illustrating a wide range of fascinating objects, (...)
- The statue of Fortuna at the forum of Philippi and its architectural setting.Guillaume Biard, Michel Sève & Patrick Weber - 2019 - Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 143:713-766.L’article exploite l’occasion rare d’étudier ensemble une statue et la construction où elle était présentée et mise en valeur. Les fragments de la statue comme de son baldaquin ont été trouvés ensemble lors de la fouille de 1931. Le baldaquin consiste en un petit édicule corinthien à deux colonnes, ouvert en façade et sur les côtés, accolé au mur Sud de la curie. La légèreté de sa construction comparée à la massivité de la statue exécutée d’un seul bloc, implique qu’il (...)
- Sculpture, Sexuality and History : Encounters in Literature, Culture and the Arts from the Eighteenth Century to the Present.Jana Funke & Jen Grove (eds.) - 2019 - Springer.This book investigates the wide-ranging connections between sculpture, sexuality, and history in Western culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Sculpture has offered a privileged site for the articulation of sexual experience and the formation of sexual knowledge. As historical objects, sculptures also draw attention to the different ways in which knowledge about sexuality is facilitated through an engagement with the past. Bringing together contributors from across disciplines, including art history, classics, film studies, gender studies, history, literary studies, museum (...)
- L'artivisme d'Anish Kapoor : une poietique du détournement ?Frédéric Lefrançois - 2019 - Recherches En Esthétique 24 (Art et détournement):173-188.Can provocative sculptural aesthetics alter our perception of history? This article focuses on the sensational effect caused by the 2015 exhibition of Anish Kapoor's monumental Dirty Corner in Versailles. Does the reception of such contextual art rely on the ability to collate different aesthetic experiences on the artwork's surface? The Indo-British sculptor's divisive use of ethics has opposed the supporters of a vision of art based on the quest for the sublime to those who opt for an artistic adventure pulling (...)
- Sculpture and the Sense of Place.Jakob Due Lorentzen - 2019 - Open Philosophy 2 (1):629-639.This article proposes a direction—inspired by a reading of Heidegger’s reflections on sculpture— in which thinking enriched by artistic experience can unfold an alternative mode of being-in-the-world. Heidegger points out that, in contrast to a scientific understanding of space as an empty container, the special character of space in sculpture is characterized by a clearing-away (Räumen), which presupposes and points to an open, receptive attitude toward experience that is necessary for dwelling to take place. From Heidegger this article proceeds to (...)
- The gendered body in Roman sculpture - Davies gender and body language in Roman art. Pp. XII + 357, ills. Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2018. Cased, £90, us$120. Isbn: 978-0-521-84273-0. [REVIEW]Lindsey A. Mazurek - 2019 - The Classical Review 69 (1):284-286.
- Metropolitan fetish : African sculpture and the imperial French invention of primitive art.John Warne Monroe (ed.) - 2019 - New York: Ithaca, Cornell University Press.A history of the French reception of African art, especially wooden masks and figures, in the first four decades of the twentieth century, and how that reception led to the creation of the broader aesthetic category Westerners now know as "primitive art.
- Image Brayut on The Creation of Ceramic Sculpture.I. Wayan Mudra - 2019 - Cultura 16 (1):75-90.Men Brayut is one of the interesting stories of Balinese people since ancient times until present that acts as a source of inspiration in art. This study aimed creating and describing the ceramic sculptures inspired by the Men Brayut story. This research uses qualitative descriptive approach in which the researcher becomes the main instrument. Data collection by observation and documentation. This statue was made using SP Gustami's creation method namely exploration, improvisation and embodiment. The results show that the creation process (...)
- Sculpture installation : Garden of small nuptials.Elizabeth Presa - 2019 - In Paulo de Assis & Paolo Giudici (eds.), Aberrant nuptials: Deleuze and artistic research 2. Leuven (Belgium): Leuven University Press.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Greek sculptures and reactions to them - kousser the afterlives of greek sculpture. Interaction, transformation, and destruction. Pp. XVI + 309, ills, maps, colour pls. Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2017. Cased, £75, us$99.99. Isbn: 978-1-107-04072-4. [REVIEW]Sarantis Symeonoglou - 2019 - The Classical Review 69 (1):269-271.
- (1 other version)Encountering the Niobe’s Children: Vernon Lee’s queer formalism and the empathy of sculpture.Francesco Ventrella - 2019 - In Jana Funke & Jan Grove (eds.), Sculpture, sexuality and history: encounters in literature, culture and the arts from the Eighteenth Century to the present. Genders and Sexualities in History. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 195-219.The materiality of sculpture was essential to Vernon Lee’s psychological theory of aesthetics based on the beholder’s physical responses. Through collaboration with her lover Clementina Anstruther-Thomson, Lee developed a theory of embodiment based on German psychological empathy theories which was reliant on gallery rather than laboratory experiments. This chapter focuses on the reception of their work within the psychological circles of the time and, in contrast to interpretation of the two women’s intellectual collaboration as a transposition of lesbian desire, I (...)
- Social Sculpture and Education: Schiller, Steiner, Beuys and Sacks.Wolfgang Zumdick - 2019 - In Victoria de Rijke (ed.), Art and Soul: Rudolf Steiner, Interdisciplinary Art and Education. Springer Verlag. pp. 97-115.This essay tries to reconstruct the idea and history of an alternative model of education, which – based on a model writing by Friedrich Schiller from the late eighteenth century – continues to formulate and practice alternatives to predominant educational practices. It highlights the way in which Friedrich Schiller’s ideas about the aesthetic education of the human being and Rudolf Steiner’s theories about an alternative educational practice could be seen as important sources for the development of the idea of Social (...)
- The aeginetan sculptures rediscovered - Wagner, Schelling report on the aeginetan sculptures. With historical supplements. Translated, edited and with an introduction by Louis A. Ruprecht jr. pp. XXVI + 318, ills. Albany, ny: State university of new York press, 2017. Cased, us$99. Isbn: 978-1-4384-6481-7. [REVIEW]Ágnes Bencze - 2018 - The Classical Review 68 (2):540-542.
- Sculptures from the Blundell collection. Bartman the Ince Blundell collection of classical sculpture. Volume III – the ideal sculpture. Pp. XII + 385, ills, pls. Liverpool: Liverpool university press, 2017. Cased, £75. Isbn: 978-1-78138-310-0. [REVIEW]Victoria Donnellan - 2018 - The Classical Review 68 (1):243-245.
- Décoloniser l'imaginaire esthétique : vers une écriture de nouveaux paradigmes caribéens.Lefrançois Frédéric & Catherine Kirchner-Blanchard - 2018 - Minorit'art. Revue de Recherches Décoloniales 2 (1):22-33.In this article, Catherine Kirchner-Blanchard et Frédéric Lefrançois question the decolonial stance of Caribbean artists who pursue artistic freedom and agency without relating or comparing their work to the great models of Western art history.
- Photographing Sculpture: Aesthetic and Semiotic Issues.Francesca Polacci - 2018 - Aisthesis. Pratiche, Linguaggi E Saperi Dell’Estetico 11 (2):129-143.The essay aims to outline an epistemology of photography through the critical issues that arise from the encounter between photography and sculpture. In particular, it investigates the aesthetic and semiotic constraints that define the specificity of the photographic look with respect to a sculptural three-dimensional vision. The relationship between documentary and art photographs is the main area of research; specifically, the essay tries to highlight the interpretative value that can also be attributed to documentary photography, underlining the boundaries of a (...)
- The Iconography of Vecchietta's Bronze Christ in Siena.Giulio Dalvit - 2017 - Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 80 (1):29-59.Through the prism of iconography, we may be able to better understand Vecchietta's stylistic choices towards the end of his career. His last known bronze sculpture, a gaunt and pathetic Christ, executed in 1476, is widely agreed to represent the Risen Christ. Today, the sculpture stands atop the high altar of the Santissima Annunziata, the Hospital Church in Siena, but this was neither its original nor intended location. In fact, the figure was meant to be part of a larger ensemble (...)
- The Non-Objects of Anish Kapoor’s Fancy.Michael Gutierrez - 2017 - The Philosophers' Magazine 78:44-52.
- Sculpture from Roman London. Coombe, grew, Hayward, henig Roman sculpture from London and the south-east. Pp. xlviii + 136, ills, map, b/w & colour pls. Oxford: Oxford university press, for the british academy, 2015. Cased, £120, us$199. Isbn: 978-0-19-726571-0. [REVIEW]Maura K. Heyn - 2017 - The Classical Review 67 (1):244-246.
- Kant, Co-production, Actuality and Pedestrian Space: On the Philosophical Writings of Fred Sandback.Juliette Kennedy - 2017 - In Roman Kossak & Philip Ording (eds.), Simplicity: Ideals of Practice in Mathematics and the Arts. Springer.
- Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks: With Instructions for the Connoisseur, and an Essay on Grace in Works of Art.Johann Joachim Winckelmann & Henry Fuseli - 2017 - Printed for the Translator, and Sold by A. Millar.
- The Statue that Houses the Temple: A Phenomenological Investigation of Western Embodiment Towards the Making of Heidegger's Missing Connection with the Greeks.Michael Arvanitopoulos - 2016 - Dissertation, University of South FloridaMuch of the criticism Heidegger has drawn from realism, from postmodernism and even existentialism, as well from the anti-Nazi protests on his philosophy, could be diluted if a defaulted connection was made between Heidegger's metaphysics and the Greeks. Being and Time drafted the blueprint of the origin of predication and world-disclosure from the primordial intuition of the limitations of action in the face of human finitude. This existential reprioritization forced a radical reversal of primacy from nature to culture, having assumed (...)
- Sculptures de Delphes.Hélène Aurigny, Danièle Braunstein & Jean-Luc Martinez - 2016 - Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique 139:784-794.Introduction Commencé à la demande de l’éphorie de Delphes aux lendemains des festivités du centenaire des débuts de la Grande Fouille par A. Peignard et Ph. Jockey, le récolement des sculptures de pierre conservées à Delphes, conduit par J.‑L. Martinez à partir de 1996 et H. Aurigny à partir de 2006, s’achève et s’est accompagné de l’aménagement d’une réserve dédiée, imaginée et mise en œuvre par D. Braunstein de 2006 à 2009. La base de données créée et alimentée depuis vingt (...)
- Statues Also Die.Pierre-Philippe Fraiture - 2016 - Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 24 (1):45-67.“African thinking,” “African thought,” and “African philosophy.” These phrases are often used indiscriminately to refer to intellectual activities in and/or about Africa. This large field, which sits at the crossroads between analytic philosophy, continental thought, political philosophy and even linguistics is apparently limitless in its ability to submit the object “Africa” to a multiplicity of disciplinary approaches. This absence of limits has far-reaching historical origins. Indeed it needs to be understood as a legacy of the period leading to African independence (...)
- From Statue to Story: Ovid’s Metamorphosis of Hermaphroditus.Robert Groves - 2016 - Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 109 (3):321-356.
- Bobou Children in the Hellenistic World. Statues and Representation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xxvi+184. £95. 9780199683055. [REVIEW]Iphigeneia Leventi - 2016 - Journal of Hellenic Studies 136:274-275.
- Hamiaux, Laugier and Martinez Eds The Winged Victory of Samothrace: Rediscovering a Masterpiece. Paris: Musée du Louvre and Somogy, 2015. Pp. 197. €35. 9782350315010. [REVIEW]Jane Masséglia - 2016 - Journal of Hellenic Studies 136:277.
- Baudelaire’s Critique of Sculpture.Arnold Cusmariu - 2015 - Journal of Aesthetic Education 49 (3):96-124.Am şlefuit materia pentru a afla linia continuă.Und das Problem ensteht: was is das, was übrigbleibt, wenn ich von der Tatsache, daß ich meinen Arm hebe, die abziehe, daß mein Arm sich hebt?Acknowledged to have launched modern poetry with Les Fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire was also a prolific and influential art critic, a close friend of Edouard Manet, and an early champion of Eugène Delacroix. At one time decidedly not a friend of sculpture, Baudelaire published a critique of this (...)
- Edgar Degas Sculpture.Guillaume Evrard - 2015 - The European Legacy 20 (2):187-188.
- Un saggio di scultura verbale: A proposito di Luc. im. 9.Lucia Floridi - 2015 - Hermes 143 (1):83-100.Through the comparison with famous statues, Lycinus, in Lucian’s „Imagines“, makes a verbal portrait of a beautiful woman he has caught sight of. The portrait of her virtues is preceeded by a section where she appears with a book in her hands, while talking to someone. This paper argues that such a description is modelled on a specific iconographic scheme: after Lycinus’ verbal sculpture, the woman has actually become a statue. But she also has the limits of a sculpture: although (...)
- Sculptural Substance - An Interview with Hester Reeve.Rowan Bailey & Hester Reeve - 2014 - Journal of Writing in Creative Practice 7 (3):545-556.This interview took place at the National Arts Education Archive in November 2014. Whilst there is a necessary focus on Hester Reeve’s most recent project YMEDACA – a re-mapping of Yorkshire Sculpture Park through the features of Plato’s ‘Academos’ – the dialogue also moves its way through the archive’s important role in the process and formation of the project. We were keen to hold our discussion inside the archive itself; to allow the space to hold us while we negotiated the (...)
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