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

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Plates -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Global Revival of Lost Wax Casting -- Chapter 1 Lost-Wax Casting -- Chapter 2 Sculptor-Founders in Late Nineteenth-Century France: The Role of Lost-Wax Casting -- Chapter 3 A Tale of Two Foundries: Art Bronze Casting Comes of Age in America -- Chapter 4 The Subtlety of the Surface: Thoughts on the Revival of the Lost Wax Technique in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany -- Chapter 5 Enrico Cantoni: From Plasterman to Bronze Founder in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain -- Chapter 6 From the Island of the Sun to the Empire of the Rising Sun: Vincenzo Ragusa and the Technique of Bronze Casting in Japan at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 7 Defining Modernity in Japanese Sculpture: Two Waves of Italian Impact on Casting Techniques -- Part 2 Medardo Rosso and the Modernity of Lost-Wax Casting -- Disclaimer -- Framing Rosso: A Brief Attempt -- Chapter 8 Medardo Rosso, the Italian Sculptor-Founder in Paris: Transforming the Multiple in Modern Sculpture -- Chapter 9 The Unstable Act of Seeing: A Conceptual Reading of Rosso's Serial Reproduction -- Chapter 10 Comparative Visual Examination of Medardo Rosso's Bambino ebreo -- Chapter 11 Creative Inconsistencies: Compositional Analysis of Rosso's Waxes -- Chapter 12 Towards an Understanding of Rosso's Casting Practice: Surface XRF of Four Bronze Casts of Bambino ebreo -- Chapter 13 Rethinking Uniformity: Analysis of Rosso's Serial Casts of the Bambino ebreo through Digital Surface Comparison -- Chapter 14 New Technologies, New Approaches: Following the Hand of the Artist in the Restoration of Medardo Rosso's Wax Casts -- Chapter 15 Impressions: An Artist-Founder's Impressions of Medardo Rosso, Artist-Founder -- Plates -- Index.

This book recounts the revival of lost wax casting and Medardo Rosso's creative serial casts, which transformed the traditional method into a modern, creative endeavour.

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