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- Title
Valuing sculpture in the long eighteenth century: materials and technology.
- Authors
Sullivan, M. G.
- Abstract
In 1712 the sale catalogue of John Nost's studio defined the value of sculpture as lying in the intrinsic value of materials, the performance of the artist, and the costs and complexity of sculptural production. This article looks at how these values of materials and making shifted over the course of the following 150 years through specific examples of materials – lead and granite – that gained and then lost value; and how production processes that streamlined sculptural production, notably James Tulloch's marble works, were first celebrated and then seen as anathema to sculptural value. The article argues for the malleability of sculptural value systems in the long eighteenth century, and the need to understand sculptural value in materials and production in relation to economic and technological history.
- Subjects
SCULPTURE sales &; prices; HISTORY of sculpture; ART materials; NOST, John, the Elder, ca. 1655-ca. 1712; TULLOCH, James
- Publication
Sculpture Journal, 2023, Vol 32, Issue 4, p417
- ISSN
1366-2724
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/sj.2023.32.4.02