Lead in Modern and Contemporary Art

"[Lead in Modern and Contemporary Art] includes fifteen contributing essays which are rich in insightful observations about lead as a resource and about the artists they are discussing. * Sculpture Journal * This fascinating book concerns that alluringly contradictory element, lead. Malleable, easily melted, strikingly heavy, insidiously toxic, its threats and promises have attracted those sculptors committed to addressing what Emily Dickinson termed the ""hour of lead"". * Anne M. Wagner, Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley, USA * This important volume offers fresh ways of thinking about materiality in modern sculpture. Its wide-ranging explorations of artists’ fascination with the physical substance and symbolic meanings of lead make for a genuinely intriguing and illuminating study. * Alex Potts, Max Loehr Collegiate Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, USA * The editors must be congratulated on the eclectic yet coherent contents, and on choosing people who not only have things to say, but who can actually write, not always the case in such collections. Lead may have sat splashed, dull and almost sullen in the corner of a gallery like an artist come too late, or early, at a vernissage, but goodness me, in this book, in a process of remarkable transformation, it becomes a catalyst beyond platinum: a catalyst for thought about process and materials in general. * Leonardo Reviews *"