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Zusatztext The editors must be congratulated on the eclectic yet coherent contents, and on choosing people who not only have things to say, but who can actually write, not always the case in such collections. Lead may have sat splashed, dull and almost sullen in the corner of a gallery like an artist come too late, or early, at a vernissage, but goodness me, in this book, in a process of remarkable transformation, it becomes a catalyst beyond platinum: a catalyst for thought about process and materials in general. Informationen zum Autor Sharon Hecker is an art historian and curator specializing in modern and contemporary Italian art. She is the author of A Moment’s Monument: Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture (2017), and co-editor of Postwar Italian Art History: Untying the Knot (2018) and Lead in Modern and Contemporary Art (2021). For her work on Italian art, Hecker has received fellowships from the Getty, Fulbright, and Mellon Foundations 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. Klappentext 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.Bringing together contributions from a distinguished group of international contributors across various fields, this volume explores 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. Vorwort 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.Bringing together contributions from a distinguished group of international contributors across various fields, this volume explores 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 phys...
