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Informationen zum Autor Sharon Hecker is an independent scholar based in Italy and the USA, specializing in modern and contemporary Italian art, with a particular focus on Medardo Rosso. Her numerous essays on Rosso, Lucio Fontana and Luciano Fabro have appeared in exhibition catalogues and academic journals including Oxford Art Journal and Burlington Magazine , as well as edited volumes, such as Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure (2008) and Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870-1914 (2015). Silvia Bottinelli is a Modern and Contemporary Art historian who teaches in the Visual and Critical Studies Department at Tufts University. Silvia received her PhD from the University of Pisa in 2008. Her research on 20th century art has been widely published in scholarly publications, such as Art Journal, Modernism/modernity, Public Art Journal, Art Papers, Sculpture, Predella, Ricerche di Storia dell'Arte, among others. Silvia authored two monographs about postwar Italian Art in 2007 and 2010, and recently received grants from the American Philosophical Society and the Center for Italian Modern Art to work on a new book, which analyzes the representation of the domestic in Italian art and visual culture from the 1940s to the 1970s. Silvia's co-edited volume The Taste of Art. Cooking, Food, and Counterculture was published in 2017. The Food Studies Research Network awarded Silvia with an International Award for Excellence in Scholarship in 2016.The volume examines a variety of artistic uses of lead in the modern and contemporary period. Zusammenfassung Lead in Modern and Contemporary Art is the first edited volume to critically examine uses of lead as both material and cultural signifier in modern and contemporary art. The book analyzes the work of a diverse group of artists working in Europe! the Middle East! and North America! and takes into account the ways in which gender! race! and class can affect the cultural perception of lead. A distinguished group of international contributors from various fields! both established and early in their careers! explore lead's relevance from a number of perspectives! including art history! technical art history! art criticism and curatorial studies. Drawing on current art historical concerns with materiality! this volume builds on recent exhibitions and scholarship that reconsider the role of materials in shaping artistic meaning! thus giving a central relevance to the object and its physicality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Silvia Bottinelli (Tufts University! USA) and Sharon Hecker (Independent Scholar! Italy) An Introduction to the History of Lead Christian Warren (TBC) On Lead! Painting! and Alchemy Spike Bucklow (TBC) The Rise of the Market for Lead Garden Sculpture in Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century England Matthew Craske (Oxford Brookes University! USA) In the Backyard at Burcroft (1938-1939): Henry Moore and the European Avant-Garde Rowan Bailey (TBC) The Weakness of Lead: Materiality and Modern American Sculpture Marin R. Sullivan ( Independent Art Historian and Curator! USA ) Due Process (Richard Serra) Jeffrey Weiss (Institute of the Fine Arts! New York University! USA) Disgraced Materials: Vitality and Decay in Lynda Benglis' Quartered Meteor Luke Naessens (Princeton University! USA) Gilberto Zorio and the Physics/Poetics of Lead Elizabeth Mangini (California College of the Arts! San Francisco! USA) Stop-Motion: Lead in Arte Povera Sharon Hecker (Independent Scholar! Italy) 'Mankind needs some lead so as to be somewhat heavier': Beuys' Heavy Sculpture from Cradle to Grave Claudia Mesch (Arizona State University! USA) An Interview with Remo Salvadori Silvia Bottinelli (Tufts University! USA) and Sharon Hecker (Independent Scholar! ...
