The Sculptor's Funeral is the only podcast dedicated to figurative sculptors living and working today. Art history, tech talk, news, and interviews for the figurative sculptor working in the Western European tradition of figurative sculpture, along with a social media forum and listener mail/questions/comments make this podcast required listening for any sculptor who knows the Fine Arts aren't dead, they just smell a little funny.

The Sculptor's Funeral Podcast is finishing off this strange and terrible year with the final round of the quiz show! Listen to Lubov, David, and Liz test their knowledge of the history of sculpture, in their quest to attain the coveted Sculptor's Funeral coffee mug.

Direct download: Episode_86_Quiz_Show_Finals.mp3
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Listen to CJ, Mark, and Lubov go head to head in Round Three of the Sculptor's Funeral Quiz Show!

Direct download: Episode_85_Quiz_Show_3.mp3
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Listen to Rony, Alison, and David go head to head in Round Two of the Sculptor's Funeral Quiz Show!

Direct download: Episode_84_-_Quiz_Show_Round_Two.mp3
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Three avid listeners of the Sculptor's Funeral Podcast match wits and test their knowledge of art history! Round one, with Bruce, Liz, and Ali.

Direct download: Episode_83_Quiz_Show_1.mp3
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Episode 47.5 - From Apprentice to Academy Redux

Happy Holidays! - Enjoy this repeat episode which details the rise of academic institutions in the training of artists.

Direct download: Episode_47.5_-_From_Apprentice_to_Academy_redux.mp3
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In a career cut short by an early death, Desiderio Da Settignano nevertheless managed to rival Donatello in relief work, and re-invent the genre of child portraiture in sculpture, bringing the Age of Ugly Renaissance Babies to a thankful end.

Direct download: Episode_46_-_Desiderio_Da_Settignano.mp3
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Exactly how and when did the focus of European art move from Florence and Rome, to Paris? This episode explores the rise of the French academic system and the forerunners of the Ecole Des Beaux-Arts and the Paris Salon under the absolute monarchy of Louis XIV.

Direct download: Episode_16_-_The_French_Connection.mp3
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Episode 13 - Can Art Die?

Following up on the Elgin Marbles debate, Jason explores the nature of public art, and whether or if a work of art can cease to be. How fragmented, altered, abused, displaced, and appropriated can a sculpture be before it is a relic, rather than a sculpture?

Direct download: Episode_13_-_can_art_die.mp3
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Taking a break over the holidays, Jason gives a reading of Oscar Wilde's classic short story. Happy Holidays Everyone!

Direct download: Episode_12_-_The_Happy_Prince.mp3
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Episode 05 - Canons of proportion

The history of canons of proportions and their use by sculptors is discussed in this week's episode. From the Egyptians up to the present day, artists have sought the key to caputring an ideal, or a norm, in human form. As it happens, notions of ideals - and of what we consider normal - change over time, which has given rise to dozens of canons practiced by different artists at different times. Host Jason Arkles discusses several, and how artists have always sought to tie the measurements of the human form to other notions of perfection- be it the sacred, or geometry - or even sacred geometry.

Direct download: Episode_05_-_Canons_of_proportion.mp3
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