Publisher's Synopsis
In the late nineteenth century, British sculptors began to move away from the whiteness of Neoclassical marble and started to incorporate colour into their work, using bronze, silver, gold, ivory and porcelain as well as semi-precious stones, tinted waxes, enamels and paint. This issue of the Henry Moore Institute's 'Essays on Sculpture' series is published to accompany the 2023 exhibition which examined the rise of coloured sculpture in relation to widespread anxieties about social change and scientific advances.
