Joan DeJean

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell

Mimi Hellman

Peter Björn Kerber

Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Apr. 26-Aug. 7, 2011, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sept. 18-Dec. 10, 2011.

Life & Luxury in the Eighteenth Century

Paris

Mary D. Sheriff

Katie Scott

Charissa Bremer-David

"This exhibition challenges the reasons why sculpture is usually considered alone, in the gallery, and the decorative arts are considered as part of a period setting. It suggests that by breaking away from these conventional categories we can see how sculpture is also part of a spatial conversation, and how furniture and fittings can be appreciated as unique works." "With five original essays and forty complete catalogue entries, this publication both documents an exhibition and goes beyond it, opening our eyes to the fluidity of formal language in the 'long' eighteenth century, and to the ways in which objects can change according to whether they are seen together or apart, as mobile or fixed, as two- or three-dimensional, as ideal or as functional." --Book Jacket.

Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts : an Exhibition Co-organised by the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California

Taking Shape

Mimi Hellman

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