Sculpture and Film

Jon Wood, Ian Christie

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040897256
• Topic: Art

During much of the twentieth century, film was often assumed to be a 'flat' pictorial art, more often compared with painting and graphic media than with sculpture. In the last few decades, however, film has come to be more closely associated with sculpture, and in recent years, it has largely been through gallery installations not only that the sculptural aspect of film and video has been demonstrated, but also the extent to which filmic representation enlarges our understanding of sculptural space. This collection thus comprises the first rigorous exploration of the relationship between sculpture and film, charted over ten essays. The contributors explore some of the ways in which cinema reshaped the landscape of art and specifically sculpture and sculptural practice during the twentieth century. They also examine how film has functioned as a 'sculptural' medium at crucial moments in various stages of its evolution. In this way, it is a book about both sculpture and film, and sculpture as film.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• Foreword
• 1 Filling the frame: Brancusi's film stills of Leda and the manifestation of attention
• 2 ‘Deaf, dumb and blind cinema’: Re-evaluating the surrealist object through film
• 3 Stop and go: Sculpture in experimental film
• 4 Acoustic shaping: Sound, film and sculpture
• 5 ‘The art that moves’: Len Lye, film and sculpture
• 6 Moving in the image: Judd's crystals
• 7 The cut: Hollis Frampton and Carl Andre in dialogue
• 8 ‘The very statues breathe’: Greenaway, Shakespeare and the performance of sculpture
• 9 Prop, studio, action: Paul McCarthy’s cuts
• 10 Staging/object/film: Considering Robert Morris at Tate Gallery in 1971
• Index