在这本范围广泛，发人深省，有时甚至引起争议的新书中，**雕塑家安东尼•葛姆雷（Antony Gormley）和艺术评论家和历史学家马丁•盖福德（Martin Gayford）将雕塑作为拥有自己独特历史的跨国艺术形式进行了探索。

安东尼•葛姆雷（Antony Gormley）和马丁•盖福德（Martin Gayford）考虑了材料和技术，并探讨了诸如照明，死亡率和我们不断变化的世界等包罗万象的主题。最重要的是，他们讨论了自己对雕塑的看法，将它看作一种能够改变人们感受的物理思维形式，而且他们邀请我们以一种完全不同的方式来看待我们遇到的雕塑，以及范围更广泛的世界。

In this wide-ranging, thought-

provoking and sometimes provocative new book, leading sculptor Antony Gormley, informed and energised by a lifetime of making, and art critic and historian Martin Gayford, explore sculpture as a transnational art form with its own compelling history. The authors' lively conversations and explorations make unexpected connections across time and media. Sculpture has been practised by every culture throughout the world and stretches back into our distant past.

The first surviving shaped stones may even predate the advent of language. Evidently, the desire to carve, mould, bend, chip away, weld, suspend, balance - to transform a vast array of materials and light into new shapes and forms - runs deep in our psyche and is a fundamental part of our human journey and need for expression. With more than 300 spectacular illustrations, Shaping the World juxtaposes a rich variety of works - from the famous Lowenmensch or Lion Man, c.

35,000 BCE to Michelangelo's luminous Pieta in Rome, the Terracotta Warriors in China to Rodin's The Kiss, Marcel Duchamp's ready-

mades, Olafur Eliasson's extraordinary Weather Project and Kara Walker's Fons Americanus, and Tomas Saraceno's ongoing Aerocene project, as well as examples of Gormley's own work. Antony Gormley and Martin Gayford take into account materials and techniques, and consider overarching themes such as light, mortality and our changing world. Above all, they discuss their view of sculpture as a form of physical thinking capable of altering the way people feel, and they invite us to look at sculpture we encounter - and more broadly the world around us - in a completely different way.