The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder in Victorian Sculpture (No. 81)

Description

In the late nineteenth century, British sculptors began to move away from the whiteness of Neoclassical marble and started to incorporate colour into their work, using bronze, silver, gold, ivory and porcelain as well as semi-precious stones, tinted waxes, enamels and paint.

This issue of the Henry Moore Institute’s Essays on Sculpture series is published to accompany the recent exhibition The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder. The exhibition examined the rise of coloured sculpture in relation to widespread anxieties about social change and scientific advances, drawing attention to a Victorian fascination with colouring people and people of colour.

In this issue

Essays on Sculpture Issue 81 features new essays by the exhibition’s co-curators Nicola Jennings and Adrienne L. Childs, alongside contributions from David Bindman, Christa Clarke and Charmaine A. Nelson.

It also features a reprint of David J. Getsy’s article ‘Privileging the Object of Sculpture: Actuality and Harry Bates’ Pandora of 1890’ originally published in Art History (vol. 28, no. 1, February 2005).

Product details

Softback, staple-bound
76 pages
230 x 170mm
ISBN 978-1-905462-64-3