Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe

By foregrounding the overlaps between sculpture and the decorative this volume of essays offers a model for a more integrated form of art history writing. Through distinct case studies from a seventeenth-century Danish altarpiece to contemporary British ceramics it brings to centre stage makers objects concepts and spaces that have been marginalized by the enforcement of boundaries within art and design discourse. These essays challenge the classed raced and gendered categories that have structured the histories and languages of art and its making. <i>Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe</i> is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and practice of sculpture and the decorative arts and the methodologies of art history.