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Papers

(The median citation count of Sculpture Journal is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Anybody can do sculpture, it is purely mechanical’: Harriet G. Hosmer and the relation between sculpture, reproduction and machine invention	1
‘Wider than the realm of England’: the Hosack family heritage, Atlantic slavery and casting Mary, Queen of Scots for the nation	1
Fabricating enchantment: Antoine Benoist’s wax courtiers in Louis XIV’s Paris	1
Remembering and forgetting Confederate monuments: taking the bitter with the sweet	1
Introduction: Tender hands and rough stone: sculpture’s stereotypes of gender and making	1
On the reception and agency of neoclassical sculpture and its material: case studies from Viennese sculpture galleries (c. 1780–1820)	0
Interview: An interview with Cassils	0
Reviews	0
Introduction: Plastic art, plastic meanings	0
Obituary	0
Jonathan Black MA PhD FRSA FRHistS, 1966–2023	0
Correction	0
Donatello’s Genesis reliefs of c. 1405: adapting a Roman statuette in Ghiberti’s collection	0
Soiled bodies: unearthing the colonial Caribbean in the memorials of Ralph Abercromby, John Moore and Thomas Picton, c. 1803–1816	0
Contributors	0
Sculpture and representation: apprehending marble portrait sculpture in the eighteenth century	0
‘I know of but one art’: Alfred Stevens, the Michelangelesque and intermediality	0
John McHale’s participatory art: the Constructivist Kit series	0
Monumental failures: the contested bodies and sites of public art under lockdown	0
Editorial	0
Introduction: Sculpture, Animacy, Petrification	0
Looking south: making monuments to the British Antarctic Expedition	0
Colonial statues as memorial contact zones: Macdonald, Cornwallis and statue removal in Canada	0
Editorial	0
Reviews	0

Libuše Niklová between East and West? The use of plastics in sculpture and toy design in 1960s Central and Eastern Europe	0
Reviews	0
Making a new world: Karin Jonzen and the World Health Organization in New Delhi and Geneva in the early 1960s	0
Editorial	0
The Great Game? Anglo-Afghan monuments in St Paul’s Cathedral, c. 1816–1916	0
Reviews	0
The beginnings of cartapesta and papier mâché: material choices, recipes and makers in Italy and Germany	0
Eva Hesse and plastics: a study of collaborative fabrication	0
Two sculptor-geologists and the perception of marble in nineteenth-century Britain: Sir Francis Chantrey and William Brindley	0
Contributors	0
A series of sculptures Una serie de esculturas	0
Donatello and the Mellon Madonna: interpreting the execution of Donatello’s designs	0
The force of plastic: a dive on to the (dis)enchanting inflatables of the Eventstructure Research Group	0
Contributors	0
Reform, nonconformists and the press: the role of women’s suffrage networks in the early sculpture commissions of Frances Darlington	0
Reviews	0
Strength in unity: post-war sculpture in the Women’s International Art Club, 1950–1970	0
Violence into virtue: ‘liberal empire’ and Victorian statuary in St Paul’s Cathedral	0
The business practice of Louis François Roubiliac, 1752–62	0
Interview: An exchange with Dario Robleto	0
Plastic dislocations: questions of labour and environment in Plastic Heart	0
The art of stucco in southern Portugal: morphologies, value judgements and the prejudice of conservation	0
Colonial careerists in Central Africa, 1888–1913: a survey of monuments in St Paul’s Cathedral	0
Henry Moore’s Narayana and Bhataryan : theatre of sacrifice	0
Editorial	0
Imagining women working stone: the ancient sculptor Marcia in Boccaccio’s De mulieribus and responses in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century art literature	0
Reviews	0
The bio-art history of care: mummy-sculptures of the Atacama desert	0
Ancient sculpture, modern production: Coade Stone’s Britannia and River God	0
Contributors	0
Introduction: Marble	0
Editorial	0
The monument to Men Murdered in the Sinai Desert: empire and Orientalism in St Paul’s Cathedral	0
Monuments to ‘settlement’: Australia in St Paul’s Cathedral, 1888–1913	0
A bout with the law: Marco Cianfanelli’s representation of Nelson Mandela in Shadow Boxing	0
Artist-led section: Sentences of string	0
Reviews	0
‘Peculiarly fit for statues’: the contribution of Coade’s fired artificial stone to sculpture in the eighteenth century	0
Sculpture Journal: Volume 31, Issue 3	0
Remo Bianco, plastic and the trauma of the post-war Italian artist	0
Thinking again about monuments in 2022	0
The term ‘marble’ in eighteenth-century encyclopaedic literature: from colourful and exclusive to grainy and popular	0
‘This sculptor is a cop’: John Reginald Abbott, murder in Montreal and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s criminal identification masks	0
Recycling iconoclasm’s waste: some notes and speculations	0
‘New Carrara’: Lasa marble in the service of artistic ideas and economic interests during the long nineteenth century	0
Crossing borders: researching British women sculptors in Paris in the late nineteenth century	0
Deluge and fertility: early monuments to administrators of British India in St Paul’s Cathedral, 1804–1835	0
‘Art can make a society more playful ’: a discussion on Belgian colonial heritage with theatre artist Chokri Ben Chikha	0
How not to become a monument: Post-it politics and the statue of Kim Hwal-lan	0
Krzysztof Wodiczko: monuments, projections and protest. An interview with Thomas Schielke	0

Alia Farid and Abdullah Al-Mutairi in conversation	0
Lorenzo Bartolini’s British patrons and sitters: some new discoveries	0
Contributors	0
Should the sculpture of Synagoga at Bamberg Cathedral be removed? Considerations and approaches to the problem of anti-Jewish images in a Christian church	0
Valuing sculpture: art, craft and industry, 1660–1860	0
‘Fossil-creatures’ and the ‘mockeries of life’: Ruskin at Verona	0
Contributors	0
Painting on sculptures in fifteenth-century Florence: case studies	0
Introduction: Donatello collaborations	0
Impure stone and the threat to decency: marble tints and veins	0
Contributors	0
Visualizing North Africa in Barkentin & Krall’s monument to James Augustus Grant	0
The skin of a statue: rethinking Ovid’s Pygmalion	0
‘When you touch plastic, you touch yourself’: material and self in the work of Senga Nengudi	0
Sculpture Journal: Volume 31, Issue 2	0
Robert Morris between art criticism and object making, 1961–66	0
Editorial	0
Relief in the round: terracotta classicism and the Homeric friezes of Ickworth House	0
Imperial Canada as a training ground for empire	0
Contributors	0
Reviews	0
Resurrecting the imperial body: monuments and Anglo-American military violence in St Paul’s Cathedral	0
Les Feuilles d’automne , or the peregrinations of a forgotten statue of Victor Hugo	0
Pioneering sculptural workshop techniques: Filippo della Valle and Francesco Cerroti in eighteenth-century Rome	0
Brancusi, Romania and the United States: a love story in the summer of ’69	0
Giving voice to Anna Mahler, sculptor in exile	0
Weighing history: material rhetoric and commemoration in Cuba	0
Born on the bombsite: reconstruction and the maternal body in Beth Jukes’s The Cradle (1949)	0
Sand in the Vaseline: on twenty-first-century process art	0
Contributors	0
Contributors	0
Valuing sculpture in the long eighteenth century: materials and technology	0
‘Quos ego’ in the Adriatic: a Neptune by Girolamo Campagna	0
Plaster casts for originals: Franco-Ottoman diplomacy regarding the Winged Victory of Samothrace from 1863 to 1891	0
The parish church of empire: sculpture and imperialism at St Paul’s Cathedral, c. 1796–1916	0
Contributors	0
Incursions, incisions, omissions: liberal imperialism, violence and British Southeast Asia in Francis Leggatt Chantrey, Major General Robert Rollo Gillespie , and Joseph	0
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Donatello and America’s self-image	0
Displaying the statue of Edward Colston at M Shed, Bristol – a case study	0
Sculpture Journal: Volume 31, Issue 1	0
Contributors	0
Editorial	0
Hubert Robert’s Louvre in ruins: an exploratory note on imagined destruction and the national museum	0
Valuing ornament: Jean-Baptiste Plantar (1790–1879) between art, craft and industry	0
(Un)forgotten: in the shadow of the Great Game, or East Asia in trans-imperial contexts	0
Thorvaldsen’s marble connections	0
Researching women in sculpture: a discussion event at the Henry Moore Institute, 4 May 2022	0
Plastic paradise: Ibiza’s 1971 ICSID congress	0
Phyllida Barlow: a personal appreciation	0
A ‘milky mass’ and ‘uniform material’: white marble in eighteenth-century French discourses on sculpture and geology	0
The Young Naturalist by Henry Weekes: intermediality, industry and international exhibitions	0
Review	0
Rethinking monuments after Black Lives Matter: a view from the graveyard	0
‘Weighted with the Past’: commemorating New Zealand – Edward Onslow Ford’s memorial to Sir George Grey	0
Reviews	0
A family affair: John Bacon’s monument to Jane Russell, 1810–13	0
Carnival’s unstable objects: masks as human–sculpture hybrids in Nuremberg’s Schembartlauf	0
Donatello’s pulpits from the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence and bronze sculptures from Siena’s baptistery font: technical findings from recent conservation projects	0
Of fish, frogs and fire: Donatello and his collaborators in Padua	0
Sculpture Journal: Volume 30, Issue 2	0
Sculpture Journal: Volume 30, Issue 3	0
Sculptural friends and relations and their marble surfaces: Roubiliac’s busts of Henry, 9th Earl of Pembroke, and his other busts at Wilton House	0
Contributors	0
Elasticity in twentieth-century sculpture	0
‘Death, like a sculptor’: archaeology, materials and text in Harriet Hosmer’s Pompeian Sentinel	0
What absence makes visible: the removal of Confederate statues as an opportunity for transforming the public square and its memory landscape	0
Contributors	0
Contributors	0
Reviews	0
Florence decked in rustic garb: pietra serena in sixteenth-century Tuscan sculpture and the Etruscan revival in the Medici garden of the Villa di Castello	0
The chivalric tomb in fifteenth-century Portugal	0
The pedagogy of monuments and twenty-first-century iconoclasm	0
The special correspondents’ monuments: Melton Prior, imperial memory and the Victorian press in the shadow of the South African War, 1899–1901	0
The ‘iridescent effect’: living colour and the animated Buddha body	0
Reviews	0
Pioneering Women Sculptors	0
Garth Evans, with Ann Compton, The Cardiff Tapes (2019)	0