Brinda Kumar

This career-spanning publication features conceptual, political, formal, and technical perspectives on the work of contemporary sculptor Charles Ray. For Charles Ray (b. 1953), one of today’s foremost American artists, sculpture is a way of thinking that informs his work across a wide range of media—from gelatin silver prints to porcelain, fibreglass, and steel. Ray’s practice is well known but not...

Explores how artists from the European Renaissance to the global present have used sculpture and colour to evoke the presence of the living body. Since the earliest myths of the sculptor Pygmalion bringing a statue to life through desire, artists have explored the boundaries between sculpture and the physical materiality of the body. This groundbreaking volume examines key sculptural works...