Valuing sculpture: art, craft and industry, 1660–1860

Abstract

Responding to the many useful and intriguing discussions that arose over the two days of the ‘Valuing Sculpture: Art, Craft and Industry, 1660–1860’ conference held in July 2021, this special issue explores new directions for scholarly research. This introduction considers the usefulness of the classifications of art, craft and industry, and in doing so presents this collection’s methodology of expanding dialogues by reaching across medial, dimensional, geographical and categorical boundaries.