OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Making a new world: Karin Jonzen and the World Health Organization in New Delhi and Geneva in the early 1960s	3
Pioneering Women Sculptors	1
Contributors	1
Hubert Robert’s Louvre in ruins: an exploratory note on imagined destruction and the national museum	1
Deluge and fertility: early monuments to administrators of British India in St Paul’s Cathedral, 1804–1835	1
Designing the exhibition Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance	1
Contributors	1
Reform, nonconformists and the press: the role of women’s suffrage networks in the early sculpture commissions of Frances Darlington	0
Incursions, incisions, omissions: liberal imperialism, violence and British Southeast Asia in Francis Leggatt Chantrey, Major General Robert Rollo Gillespie	0
Introduction: Donatello collaborations	0
John McHale’s participatory art: the Constructivist Kit series	0
Placing poets: Cowley’s ‘Dust’, Thomas Sprat and the making of Poets’ Corner, 1667–1713	0
Editorial	0
Ancient sculpture, modern production: Coade Stone’s Britannia and River God	0
Reviews	0
Looking south: making monuments to the British Antarctic Expedition	0
Imperial conversations: linking the Caribbean, South Asia and North America through the monuments to William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Vice-Admiral Charles Watson, and George Montagu Dunk, 2nd Ea	0
Should the sculpture of Synagoga at Bamberg Cathedral be removed? Considerations and approaches to the problem of anti-Jewish images in a Christian churc	0
Contributors	0
Donatello’s Genesis reliefs of c. 1405: adapting a Roman statuette in Ghiberti’s collection	0
‘Even their ashes’: female selfhood and same-sex love in the monument to Mary Kendall and Catherine Jones, c. 1712	0
A sphere of influence: the monument to Sir Isaac Newton by William Kent and Michael Rysbrack	0
Introduction: Tender hands and rough stone: sculpture’s stereotypes of gender and making	0
Afterword: in our time? Scaling/queering the Westminster Abbey sculptural pantheon	0
Jonathan Black MA PhD FRSA FRHistS, 1966–2023	0

Plastic paradise: Ibiza’s 1971 ICSID congress	0
‘Fossil-creatures’ and the ‘mockeries of life’: Ruskin at Verona	0
Crossing borders: researching British women sculptors in Paris in the late nineteenth century	0
Resurrecting the imperial body: monuments and Anglo-American military violence in St Paul’s Cathedral	0
‘Anybody can do sculpture, it is purely mechanical’: Harriet G. Hosmer and the relation between sculpture, reproduction and machine invention	0
Americans, Italy and Donatello	0
Contributors	0
Relief in the round: terracotta classicism and the Homeric friezes of Ickworth House	0
Editorial	0
Once great among the nations: women on rubble	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 parish church of empire: sculpture and imperialism at St Paul’s Cathedral, c. 1796–1916	0
The Young Naturalist by Henry Weekes: intermediality, industry and international exhibitions	0
Reviews	0
Contributors	0
Sculpture Journal: Volume 31, Issue 3	0
Reviews	0
Born on the bombsite: reconstruction and the maternal body in Beth Jukes’s The Cradle (1949)	0
In transformation: a contemporary artist’s response to Sculpting the Renaissance	0
‘Weighted with the Past’: commemorating New Zealand – Edward Onslow Ford’s memorial to Sir George Grey	0
Carnival’s unstable objects: masks as human–sculpture hybrids in Nuremberg’s Schembartlauf	0
David Bindman and sculpture	0
Experiencing and re-experiencing the monument to William Shakespeare	0
Sculpture Journal: Volume 31, Issue 2	0
Editorial: the politics and poetics of reuse	0
Contributors	0
Soiled bodies: unearthing the colonial Caribbean in the memorials of Ralph Abercromby, John Moore and Thomas Picton, c. 1803–1816	0
Contributors	0
Viewed from all points: the Venus Pudica in South German collections, c. 1470–1530	0
Valuing sculpture in the long eighteenth century: materials and technology	0
Caught between monumental traditions: Grinling Gibbons’s monument to Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell	0
The skin of a statue: rethinking Ovid’s Pygmalion	0
Visualizing North Africa in Barkentin & Krall’s monument to James Augustus Grant	0
Krzysztof Wodiczko: monuments, projections and protest. An interview with Thomas Schielke	0
Reviews	0
From memorial to museum piece? John Flaxman’s monument to George Lindsay Johnstone	0
Contributors	0
Brancusi, Romania and the United States: a love story in the summer of ’69	0
Imagining women working stone: the ancient sculptor Marcia in Boccaccio’s De mulieribus and responses in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century art literature	0
Editorial	0
Monumental death: thinking about the conservation of monuments through Louis-François Roubiliac’s Nightingale monument	0
Reviews	0
Recycling iconoclasm’s waste: some notes and speculations	0
Reviews	0
Introduction: Plastic art, plastic meanings	0
Reviews	0
Plastic dislocations: questions of labour and environment in Plastic Heart	0
The Great Game? Anglo-Afghan monuments in St Paul’s Cathedral, c. 1816–1916	0
Eva Hesse and plastics: a study of collaborative fabrication	0
Painting on sculptures in fifteenth-century Florence: case studies	0

Valuing sculpture: art, craft and industry, 1660–1860	0
Introduction	0
The bio-art history of care: mummy-sculptures of the Atacama desert	0
Reviews	0
Rethinking monuments after Black Lives Matter: a view from the graveyard	0
Monuments to ‘settlement’: Australia in St Paul’s Cathedral, 1888–1913	0
Lorenzo Bartolini’s seated lady: identity, meaning and sculptural comparisons	0
Weighing history: material rhetoric and commemoration in Cuba	0
Colonial careerists in Central Africa, 1888–1913: a survey of monuments in St Paul’s Cathedral	0
Plaster casts for originals: Franco-Ottoman diplomacy regarding the Winged Victory of Samothrace from 1863 to 1891	0
Reviews	0
Phyllida Barlow: a personal appreciation	0
‘This sculptor is a cop’: John Reginald Abbott, murder in Montreal and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s criminal identification masks	0
The ‘iridescent effect’: living colour and the animated Buddha body	0
Reflections on reuse	0
The force of plastic: a dive on to the (dis)enchanting inflatables of the Eventstructure Research Group	0
The monument to Men Murdered in the Sinai Desert: empire and Orientalism in St Paul’s Cathedral	0
Reviews	0
Garth Evans, with Ann Compton, The Cardiff Tapes (2019)	0
Gentleman smugglers: towards a new history of ancient West Asian archaeology	0
Editorial	0
Alia Farid and Abdullah Al-Mutairi in conversation	0
Valuing ornament: Jean-Baptiste Plantar (1790–1879) between art, craft and industry	0
‘Peculiarly fit for statues’: the contribution of Coade’s fired artificial stone to sculpture in the eighteenth century	0
Of fish, frogs and fire: Donatello and his collaborators in Padua	0
‘To know them thoroughly you must have their photographs’: photographing Donatello in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries	0
Displaying the statue of Edward Colston at M Shed, Bristol – a case study	0
‘I know of but one art’: Alfred Stevens, the Michelangelesque and intermediality	0
Contributors	0
Remo Bianco, plastic and the trauma of the post-war Italian artist	0
Sand in the Vaseline: on twenty-first-century process art	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 Castell	0
Donatello and the Mellon Madonna: interpreting the execution of Donatello’s designs	0
Portrait busts of Thomas Hope’s wife and sons by Bertel Thorvaldsen, and Hope’s commissions to Lorenzo Bartolini	0
Fabricating enchantment: Antoine Benoist’s wax courtiers in Louis XIV’s Paris	0
(Un)forgotten: in the shadow of the Great Game, or East Asia in trans-imperial contexts	0
‘Wider than the realm of England’: the Hosack family heritage, Atlantic slavery and casting Mary, Queen of Scots for the nation	0
Artist-led section: Sentences of string	0
Reviews	0
A bout with the law: Marco Cianfanelli’s representation of Nelson Mandela in Shadow Boxing	0
Thinking again about monuments in 2022	0
Contributors	0
Reviews	0
Violence into virtue: ‘liberal empire’ and Victorian statuary in St Paul’s Cathedral	0
Interview: An interview with Cassils	0
Contributors	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
A series of sculptures Una serie de esculturas	0
Contributors	0
Introduction: Sculpture, Animacy, Petrification	0
Editorial	0
‘All the junkyards in Naples are much richer’: materiality and appropriation in Robert Rauschenberg’s Neapolitan Gluts	0
Anarchist anti-imperialism, modernist domesticity: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s Maquette for a Large Basin	0
Introduction: reception and replication of Donatello, nineteenth century to now	0
Sir Francis Chantrey’s ‘delicate and honourable conduct in all matters relating to the Abbey’, 1814–41	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
Describing a thing	0
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Donatello and America’s self-image	0
Give American customers what they want: Donatello’s sculpture in plaster casts, c. 1870–c. 1910	0
‘Death, like a sculptor’: archaeology, materials and text in Harriet Hosmer’s Pompeian Sentinel	0
The art of stucco in southern Portugal: morphologies, value judgements and the prejudice of conservation	0
Les Feuilles d’automne , or the peregrinations of a forgotten statue of Victor Hugo	0
Giving voice to Anna Mahler, sculptor in exile	0
Contributors	0
Review	0
Libuše Niklová between East and West? The use of plastics in sculpture and toy design in 1960s Central and Eastern Europe	0
‘Quos ego’ in the Adriatic: a Neptune by Girolamo Campagna	0
Contributors	0
Contributors	0
‘When you touch plastic, you touch yourself’: material and self in the work of Senga Nengudi	0
Editorial	0
Interview: An exchange with Dario Robleto	0
Contributors	0
Researching women in sculpture: a discussion event at the Henry Moore Institute, 4 May 2022	0
Italian quattrocento sculpture: a controversial case in mid-nineteenth-century Paris	0
Elasticity in twentieth-century sculpture	0
The beginnings of cartapesta and papier mâché: material choices, recipes and makers in Italy and Germany	0
Lorenzo Bartolini’s British patrons and sitters: some new discoveries	0
Strength in unity: post-war sculpture in the Women’s International Art Club, 1950–1970	0
Imperial Canada as a training ground for empire	0