Sculpture category: 234 books
The Underwater Museum
The Submerged Sculptures of Jason deCaires Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
A one-of-a-kind blend of art, nature, and conservation, The Underwater Museum re-creates an awe-inspiring dive into the dazzling under-ocean sculpture parks of artist Jason deCaires Taylor. Taylor casts his life-size statues from a special kind of cement that facilitates reef growth, and sinks them...
Disarmed
The Story of the Venus de Milo
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
In the spring of 1820, on the Aegean island of Melos, an unsuspecting farmer was digging for marble building blocks when he unearthed the statue that would come to be known as the Venus de Milo. From the moment of its discovery a battle for possession ensued and was won, eventually, by the French....
Assembled
Transform Everyday Objects Into Robots
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Did you know that you can transform a cheese grater, a few bits of old cutlery and a handful of nuts and bolts into a household robot brimming with character in no time? Presented like a recipe book, Assembled will inspire you to make your own bots from random flea market finds and some unwanted...
Rodin. L’exposition du centenaire
L’album de l’exposition
Language: French
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Auguste Rodin, mondialement célèbre de son vivant, présent dans les collections des plus grands musée sa révolutionné l’art de la sculpture et construit sa propre modernité. Tour à tour naturaliste, impressionniste, expressionniste, symboliste, moderne…Rodin a, tout au long de sa vie, suivi...
by T.W. Rhys Davids Ph.D. LLD., Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
„All living beings are Buddhas and have wisdom and virtue within them. (Buddha) Buddha ranks among the most often depicted holy figures of the world perhaps appearing more than Christ, a subject widely treated by Western artists. Venerated in all the nations of Asia, and even beyond, his image took...
Fantasy Creatures in Clay
Techniques for Sculpting Dragons, Griffins and More
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Sculpt fascinating creatures!
Explore the world of clay and learn to create the dramatically beautiful forms of some of the most fearsome and awe-inspiring creatures your imagination can conjure. Ranging from ferocious dragons to regal griffins to magnificent underwater beasts--they're all...
The Portrait in Clay
A Technical, Artistic, and Philosophical Journey Toward Understanding the Dynamic and Creative Forces in Portrait Sculpture
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Simulating a workshop studio course, this book provides action-photography sequences that enable readers to observe every step a master sculptor takes in building a portrait in clay.
Messerschmidt's Character Heads
Maddening Sculpture and the Writing of Art History
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This book examines a famous series of sculptures by the German artist Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783) known as his "Character Heads." These are busts of human heads, highly unconventional for their time, representing strange, often inexplicable facial expressions. Scholars have struggled...
by T.W. Rhys Davids Ph.D. LLD., Victoria Charles
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2014
« Tous les êtres vivants sont Bouddha et ont en eux sagesse et vertu. » (Bouddha) Bouddha fait partie des personnages sacrés les plus représentés au monde, peut-être plus que ne l’est le Christ, sujet largement traité par les artistes du monde occidental. Personnage adulé par tous, Bouddha...
Race Experts
Sculpture, Anthropology, and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman's Races of Mankind
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
2019 Finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the CAA
In *Race Experts *Linda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in *The *Races of Mankind series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930. Although Hoffman had training...
by Joseph Manca, Patrick Bade, Sarah Costello
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2014
De l’Antiquité jusqu’au xxe siècle, cette collection de sculptures offre une vision véritablement originale de l’art occidental. Sont représentées ici les oeuvres les plus sensuelles, les plus harmonieuses, jusqu’aux plus provocantes et minimalistes. La sculpture modèle le monde ainsi...
With Barry Flanagan
Travels Through Time and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
With Barry Flanagan is a vivid account of a friendship that evolved into a working relationship when Richard McNeff became spontaneous fixer' (Flanagan's description) of the sculptor's show held in June 1992 at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Ibiza, where they were both living. McNeff was to gain...
Summers with Lincoln
Looking for the Man in the Monuments
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
A journey across America revealing “the history of how seven of these monuments came to be . . . and what they mean to us today” (The Washington Times).
Across the country, in the middle of busy city squares and hidden on quiet streets, there are nearly two hundred statues erected in memory...
by Joachim Stark
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Master's Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Art - Sculpture / Plastics, grade: distinction, The Open University (Department of Art History), language: English, abstract: This research project wants to assess to what extent Louise Bourgeois is employing Surrealist practices in her work. Another...