A cinematic tale offering a new approach to understanding sculpture across cultures

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Imagining Sculpture

A Short Conjectural History

Sculpture is just a word, an English word, which elicits an image in the mind’s eye. Sculpture is a European idea. In China, on the other hand, statues, stele, and other figural objects were made for millennia without being thought of as Sculpture. There was no Sculpture in China. "Imagining Sculpture" is the story of this something that did not exist.

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"Imagining Sculpture" is a series of short vignettes, historical and fictional. Travellers, scholars, collectors and antiquarians encounter statues, figures and effigies in China, Japan, England, Germany, France, Italy and the United States from the fourteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. The book is visual, cinematic and sumptuous – told with rare photographs, paintings, sketches, letters and ephemera. It offers a new kind of visual narrative and a different way of seeing and knowing.

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Die Leser:innen haben Teil an jener Spannung, die sich zwischen alten Vorbildern und neu zu entwickelnder Kunst zwischen Asien und Europa entbirgt. Die ästhetisch-intellektuelle Reise in die Kunst der Vergangenheit Asiens und Europas weckt so die Neugier auf die Zukunft, die sich zwischen den Kulturen noch entwickeln kann. // The reader is part of the tension between old models and newly developing art between Asia and Europe. The aesthetic-intellectual journey into the art of Asia's and Europe's past thus arouses curiosity about the future that can still develop between the cultures.

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Stanley Abe

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400 pages, 485 colour illustrations
17.5 × 23 cm, hardcover

ISBN: 978-3-7774-3758-3