Book of the week: Outstanding!

This literally outstanding exhibition catalogue deepens our understanding of a genre-bending medium over the course of nearly two centuries.

No other artistic medium transcends the boundaries of our vision quite like the relief; this very ambiguity has tempted some of the world’s greatest artists to explore its possibilities.

From 1800 on, the book traces the relief's fluid aesthetic, and illuminates the significance of innovation and adaptation until the 1960s.

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