Lecture 3: Marble, Clay, & Bronze: Technology from Phidias to Hirst

Reading List:

  • Tuck Landland. From Clay to Bronze: A Studio Guide to Figurative Sculpture. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1999.
  • Richard Neer. The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010
  • Bronze. London: Royal Academy of the Arts, 2013.
  • Jens M. Daehner and Kenneth Lapatin, eds. Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World. Los Angeles: Getty Press, 2015.
  • Sandra Berresford. “Sognando il marmo” Cultura e commercio del marmo tra Carrara, Gran Bretagna e Impero (1820-1920) Rome: Cassa di Risparmio di Carrara, 2017
  • Renaissance & Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection. New York: Frick Collection, 2016.
  • Sculpture Victorious: Art in the Age of Invention. 1837-1901. London: Yale University Press, 2015.
Micah Christensen