Finding Lost Wax: The Disappearance and Recovery of an Ancient Casting Technique and the Experiments of Medardo Rosso

by Sharon Hecker

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This book is the first scholarly account of how lost wax casting was forgotten and rediscovered around the world thanks to transmission of know-how by Italian founders in the late nineteenth century. Against this backdrop, Medardo Rosso, an Italian sculptor living in Paris, overturned rules of the technique through creative approaches to serial reproduction. His unusual casts prefigured experiments in casting in the modern era. The volume includes...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:9004434216

ISBN13:9789004434219

Release Date:December 2020

Publisher:Brill

Length:380 Pages

Weight:2.11 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"

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