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

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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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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.
Alternative Title
Disappearance and recovery of an ancient casting technique and the experiments of Medardo Rosso
Subject
  • Bronze sculpture > Technique
  • Bronze sculpture > Technique
  • Precision casting
  • Precision casting > Case studies
  • Precision casting
  • Rosso, Medardo, 1858-1928
  • Rosso, Medardo, 1858-1928 > Criticism and interpretation
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The global revival of lost wax casting -- Medardo Rosso and the modernity of lost-wax casting.
ISBN
  • 9789004434219
  • 9004434216
  • 9789004439931 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2020042398
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries