By foregrounding the overlaps between sculpture and the decorative, this
volume of essays offers a model for a more integrated form of art
history writing. Through distinct case studies, from a
seventeenth-century Danish altarpiece to contemporary British ceramics,
it brings to centre stage makers, objects, concepts and spaces that have
been marginalized by the enforcement of boundaries within art and design
discourse. These essays challenge the classed, raced and gendered
categories that have structured the histories and languages of art and
its making. Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain and Europe is
essential reading for anyone interested in the history and practice of
sculpture and the decorative arts and the methodologies of art history.