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  • Carving Light and Body: Studies in Alabaster Meaning(s)

    Carving Light and Body by Lipin?ska, Aleksandra; Taylor-Kucia, Jessica;

    Studies in Alabaster Meaning(s)

    Series: Studies in Art & Materiality; 9;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Brill
    • Date of Publication 4 June 2026

    • ISBN 9789004729308
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages366 pages
    • Size 235x155x25 mm
    • Weight 838 g
    • Language English
    • 684

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    Carving Light and Body investigates the mechanisms by which artistic materials generate meaning. Following alabaster across cultures and epochs, Aleksandra Lipin?ska traces its journey from the quarry to the artist?s workshop, and examines its roles and functions in the realms of art, natural philosophy, theology, poetry, and diplomacy. By exploring alabaster?s qualities and the associations these have invited, she reveals its materiality as an agent that shapes the creation, perception, and significance of artworks. At the same time, she demonstrates that many of the notions traditionally connected with alabaster have been cultural projections, often created independently of its physical properties or natural characteristics.

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