Lead in Modern and Contemporary Art (Hardcover)

Introduction Silvia Bottinelli (Tufts University, USA) and Sharon Hecker (Independent Scholar, Italy) An Introduction to the History of Lead Christian Warren (TBC) On Lead, Painting, and Alchemy Spike Bucklow (TBC) The Rise of the Market for Lead Garden Sculpture in Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century England Matthew Craske (Oxford Brookes University, USA) In the Backyard at Burcroft (1938-1939): Henry Moore and the European Avant-Garde Rowan Bailey (TBC) The Weakness of Lead: Materiality and Modern American Sculpture Marin R. Sullivan (Independent Art Historian and Curator, USA) Due Process (Richard Serra) Jeffrey Weiss (Institute of the Fine Arts, New York University, USA) Disgraced Materials: Vitality and Decay in Lynda Benglis' Quartered Meteor Luke Naessens (Princeton University, USA) Gilberto Zorio and the Physics/Poetics of Lead Elizabeth Mangini (California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA) Stop-Motion: Lead in Arte Povera Sharon Hecker (Independent Scholar, Italy) 'Mankind needs some lead so as to be somewhat heavier': Beuys' Heavy Sculpture from Cradle to Grave Claudia Mesch (Arizona State University, USA) An Interview with Remo Salvadori Silvia Bottinelli (Tufts University, USA) and Sharon Hecker (Independent Scholar, Italy) Lead: A Loaded Material. Kounellis, Kiefer, and Gormley in the Collection of the Israel Museum Adina Kamien-Kazhdan (Senior Curator of Modern Art at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel) and Sharon Tager, (Head of Conservation, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel) Lead and the New British Sculpture Jon Wood (Head of Research, Henry Moore Institute, UK) Organizing Against an Invisible Threat: Lead Contamination and Gardening in the Practice of Mel Chin and Futurefarmers Silvia Bottinelli (Tufts University, USA) An Interview with Daniela Rivera Silvia Bottinelli (Tufts University, USA) and Sharon Hecker (Independent Scholar, Italy) Index