A ‘milky mass’ and ‘uniform material’: white marble in eighteenth-century French discourses on sculpture and geology

IF 0.3 3区 艺术学 0 ART Sculpture Journal Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI:10.3828/sj.2021.30.2.9
Marthe Kretzschmar
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Knowledge of the materiality of stone during the Enlightenment expanded following the exploration of mineralogical structure, to alter ideas about taxonomy and challenge the role of rocks in the history of the earth. Close studies of the material of marble sculpture generated expertise on grain size, surface varieties and stone deposits. This mode of reception became intertwined with contemporary controversies about the age of the earth. This article focuses on both French sculpture and geological discourses of the eighteenth century to reveal an international and interdisciplinary network centring on protagonists such as Denis Diderot, Paul-Henri Thiry d’Holbach and Étienne-Maurice Falconet; through these figures, debates can be connected concerning both geology and art theory. Within these contexts, the article discusses the translation processes between these artistic and geological interests.
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“乳白色的物质”和“均匀的材料”:18世纪法国关于雕塑和地质学的论述中的白色大理石
启蒙运动期间,随着对矿物学结构的探索,对石头物质性的认识有所扩展,改变了分类观念,并挑战了岩石在地球历史中的作用。对大理石雕塑材料的仔细研究产生了关于颗粒大小、表面品种和石头沉积的专业知识。这种接受方式与当代关于地球年龄的争论交织在一起。本文聚焦于18世纪的法国雕塑和地质话语,揭示了一个以丹尼斯·狄德罗、保罗·亨利·蒂里·德霍尔巴赫和埃蒂安·莫里斯·法尔科内等主人公为中心的国际和跨学科网络;通过这些数字,可以将地质学和艺术理论的争论联系起来。在这些语境中,本文讨论了这些艺术兴趣和地质兴趣之间的翻译过程。
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