ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a conversation between Chris Rose, principal lecturer in 3D Design at the University of Brighton and visiting professor at Rhode Island School of Design (USA), and Norbert Jopek, Sculpture Curator at the V&A. It takes place in the V&A's Cast Courts, large galleries originally opened in 1873, which contain plaster casts of what were then considered the best works of art from Northern Europe, Italy and Spain. Norbert Jopek chose the first stopping place, the figures of Ecclesia and Synagogue, for the innovative sculpture techniques used. The second and third objects, the Brunswick lion and the tomb of St Sebaldus, had been picked out by Chris Rose on a previous visit as objects he would be interested in exploring further. The conversation presents a composite picture of the objects for the reader and is one example of the process of interpreting and understanding objects through a conversation across disciplines.
