Finding Lost Wax The Disappearance and Recovery of an Ancient Casting Technique and the Experiments of Medardo Rosso.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hecker, Sharon
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : BRILL, 2020.
Series:	Studies in Art and Materiality Ser.
Subjects:	Rosso, Medardo, > 1858-1928 > Criticism and interpretation. Rosso, Medardo, > 1858-1928 Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

Intro
Contents
Acknowledgements
Figures and Plates
Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 The Global Revival of Lost Wax Casting
Chapter 1 Lost-Wax Casting
Chapter 2 Sculptor-Founders in Late Nineteenth-Century France: The Role of Lost-Wax Casting
Chapter 3 A Tale of Two Foundries: Art Bronze Casting Comes of Age in America
Chapter 4 The Subtlety of the Surface: Thoughts on the Revival of the Lost Wax Technique in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany
Chapter 5 Enrico Cantoni: From Plasterman to Bronze Founder in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain
Chapter 6 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
Chapter 7 Defining Modernity in Japanese Sculpture: Two Waves of Italian Impact on Casting Techniques
Part 2 Medardo Rosso and the Modernity of Lost-Wax Casting
Disclaimer
Framing Rosso: A Brief Attempt
Chapter 8 Medardo Rosso, the Italian Sculptor-Founder in Paris: Transforming the Multiple in Modern Sculpture
Chapter 9 The Unstable Act of Seeing: A Conceptual Reading of Rosso's Serial Reproduction
Chapter 10 Comparative Visual Examination of Medardo Rosso's Bambino ebreo
Chapter 11 Creative Inconsistencies: Compositional Analysis of Rosso's Waxes
Chapter 12 Towards an Understanding of Rosso's Casting Practice: Surface XRF of Four Bronze Casts of Bambino ebreo
Chapter 13 Rethinking Uniformity: Analysis of Rosso's Serial Casts of the Bambino ebreo through Digital Surface Comparison
Chapter 14 New Technologies, New Approaches: Following the Hand of the Artist in the Restoration of Medardo Rosso's Wax Casts
Chapter 15 Impressions: An Artist-Founder's Impressions of Medardo Rosso, Artist-Founder
Plates
Index

Finding Lost Wax The Disappearance and Recovery of an Ancient Casting Technique and the Experiments of Medardo Rosso.

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