Research Catalog

Title

Finding lost wax : the disappearance and recovery of an ancient casting technique and the experiments of Medardo Rosso / edited by Sharon Hecker.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

Hecker, Sharon

Description

xxviii, 350 pages, 15 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm.

Summary

"Finding Lost Wax: The Disappearance and Recovery of an Ancient Casting Technique and the Experiments of Medardo Rosso, an edited volume by Sharon Hecker, is the first scholarly account of how lost wax casting was forgotten and rediscovered around the world thanks to transmission of know-how by Italian founders in the late nineteenth century. Against this backdrop, Medardo Rosso, an Italian sculptor living in Paris, overturned rules of the technique through creative approaches to serial reproduction. His unusual casts prefigured experiments in casting in the modern era. The volume includes art-historical essays by distinguished scholars on the revival of lost wax casting in different countries and a case study of Rosso's Bambino ebreo series, including scientific analysis and conservation studies"--

Series Statement

Studies in art & materiality ; volume 3

Uniform Title

Studies in art & materiality ; v. 3.

Subject

• Rosso, Medardo, 1858-1928 > Criticism and interpretation
• Rosso, Medardo, 1858-1928
• Bronze sculpture > Technique
• Precision casting
• Precision casting > Case studies

Genre/Form

• Case studies.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1. The global revival of lost wax casting -- Lost-wax casting / Francesca G. Bewer -- Sculptor-founders in late nineteenth-century France : The role of lost-wax casting / Elisabeth Lebon -- A tale of two foundries : Art bronze casting comes of age in America / Ann Boulton -- The subtlety of the surface : Thoughts on the revivial of the lost wax technique in late nineteenth-century Germany / Veronika Wiegartz -- Enrico Cantoni : From plasterman to bronze founder in late ninteenth-century Britain / Rebecca Wade -- From the island of the sun to the empire of the rising sun : Vincenzo Ragusa and the technique of bronze casting in Japan at the turn of the nineteenth century / Massimiliano Marafon Pecoraro -- Defining modernity in Japanese sculpture : Two waves of Italian impact on casting techniques / Yasuko Tsuchikane -- Part 2. Medardo Rosso and the modernity of lost-wax casting -- Framing Rosso : A brief attempt / Penelope Curtis -- Medaro Rosso, the Italian sculptor-founder in Paris : Transforming the multiple in modern sculpture / Sharon Hecker -- The unstable act of seeing : A conceptual reading of Rosso's serial reproduction / Sharon Hecker -- Comparative visual examination of Medaro Rosso's Bambino ebero / Sharon Hecker and Austin Nevin -- Creative inconsistenciers : Compositional analysis of Rosso's waxes / Francesca Caterina Izzo and Austin Nevin -- Towards ab understanding of Rosso's casting practive : Surface XRF of four bronze casts of Bambino ebreo / Federico Caro and Luc Megens -- Rethinking uniformity : Analysis of Rosso's serial casts of the Bambino ebreo through digital surface comparison / Max Rahrig and Ronald E. Street -- New technologies, new approaches : Following the hand of the artisit in the restoration of Medaro Rosso's wax casts / Lluisa Sarries Zgonc -- Impressions : An artist-founder's impressions of Medaro Rosso, artist-founder / Andrew Lacey

Call Number

JQE 22-413

ISBN

• 9789004434219
• 9004434216

LCCN

2020042398

OCLC

1196823313

Title

Finding lost wax : the disappearance and recovery of an ancient casting technique and the experiments of Medardo Rosso / edited by Sharon Hecker.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in art & materiality ; volume 3

Studies in art & materiality ; v. 3.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hecker, Sharon, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Finding lost wax Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] 9789004439931 (DLC) 2020042399

Research Call Number

JQE 22-413