The Politics & Poetics of Reuse – Open Access Artist-Led Section.

Liverpool University Press is pleased to inform you of the latest content in 'Sculpture Journal', the foremost scholarly journal devoted to sculpture in all its aspects across the globe. It provides an international forum for writers and scholars in the wider field of sculpture, including all three-dimensional art and monuments.

We are especially pleased to announce that, from this issue onward, the journal’s editorial and contributor sections will be freely accessible to all readers. These sections offer valuable insight into the themes of each issue as well as the diverse voices shaping current scholarship and practice.

This issue also features an Open Access artist-led section by Leilah Babirye, kiarita and Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo, offering first hand reflections on reuse in contemporary practice.

Table of contents

Editorial: The Politics and Poetics of Reuse
Free Access
Editorial: the politics and poetics of reuse
Teresa Kittler and Charlotte Matter

Artist Section: Reflections on Reuse
Open Access
Reflections on reuse
Leilah Babirye, kiarita, and Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo

Research Articles

Once great among the nations: women on rubble
Leah Modigliani

Gentleman smugglers: towards a new history of ancient West Asian archaeology
Erhan Tamur

‘All the junkyards in Naples are much richer’: materiality and appropriation in Robert Rauschenberg’s Neapolitan Gluts
Roberta Minnucci

In Memoriam

David Bindman and sculpture
Malcolm Baker, Alex Potts, and Alison Yarrington

Reviews

Julia Rose Katz: Francesca Borgo and Ruth Ezra (eds), Wastework: Early Modern Stories from the Cutting Room Floor

Tobah Aukland-Peck: The Gatherers
MoMA PS1, New York City, 24 April 2025–6 October 2025
Ruba Katrib (ed.), The Gatherers (exh. cat.)

Ursula Ströbele: Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams
The Courtauld Gallery, London, 20 June–14 September 2025
Jo Applin (ed.), Abstract Erotic: Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Alice Adams (exh. cat.)

Ingeborg Schemper-Sparholz: Roland Kanz, Skulptur des 18. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland

Elizabeth Saari Browne: Sèvres Extraordinaire! Sculpture from 1740 until Today
Bard Graduate Center, New York City, 10 September–16 November 2025

Notes on Contributors
Free Access
Contributors