1. Concept
Etymologically speaking, the term “sculpture” (French sculpture; Italian scultura; from the Latin sculpere, “to carve”, “to chisel”) refers to works made by removing material, that is, subtractive sculpture (Sculpture, techniques of). Commonly, however, it is used as a general term for the entire genre of three-dimensional design, including works made by the plastic techniques of building up and modeling material (Sculpture [modeling]). German is …