Sculpture category: 234 books

Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states...

The scope and potential of mouldmaking and casting is fascinating, and makes it one of the most exciting processes available to today's craftsmen. Its opportunities have been developed and expanded further by a range of new methods and materials only recently made available to the domestic market....

Creative techniques step-by-step. This book offers the reader an opportunity to watch one of our foremost contemporary sculptors at work, to see not just highlights of the creative process, but every step from beginning to end. In order to recreate the immediacy of an actual workshop situation,...

Venus is the renowned sculptor, Auguste Rodin's brief, uniquely passionate ode to one of his medium's great masterpieces, the Venus de Milo, now in the Louvre Museum in Paris. As poet Ranier Maria Rilke spoke of Rodin's vision: "The galleries of the Louvre revealed to the young artist radiant visions...

This book covers several topics including: - Using Polymer Clay for Miniatures - How To Make Simple Tools from Polymer Clay - How to Condition Polymer Clay and Why Conditioning Polymer Clay is Important - Rubber Stamps and Polymer Clay - Curing - Polymer Clay and much more!...

The Art of Letter Carving in Stone portrays the beauty of this age-old craft alongside practical instruction. Written by an eminent practitioner and teacher, it guides the novice through the basics of letter carving, drawn lettering and making simple designs, and for the more experienced it explains...

Perhaps the most fascinating, provocative and intricately modelled of all images created during the 19th century craze for stereoscopic photography remain those created in Paris from around 1860 onwards, and now known as Diableries (or “devilries”). 19th century France was renowned for its...

Extrait : Quand l'opinion publique a fait son siège à propos d'un point capital de l'histoire de l'art, c'est véritablement entreprendre une tâche ingrate que de vouloir lui apporter de nouveaux éléments d'information. Aussi inexorable que le bon abbé de Vertot, elle oppose longtemps une fin de...

On attendait depuis longtemps en France une exposition consacrée au sculpteur américain David Smith (1906-1965): le Musée national d'art moderne-Centre Georges-Pompidou l'a finalement présentée du 14 juin au 21 août 2006... À PROPOS DE L’ENCYCLOPAEDIA UNIVERSALIS Reconnue...

Partez à la découverte de Jean Tinguely avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Découpant le métal en parfait artisan, assemblant sans ordre apparent les objets les plus divers qui manifestent inlassablement leur tapageuse et bruyante existence, créant par d'incessantes combinaisons les formes...

L'exposition monographique consacrée à Marie d'Orléans, 1813-1839, princesse et artiste romantique, présentée conjointement au musée du Louvre à Paris (18 avril-21 juillet 2008) et au musée Condé à Chantilly (9 avril-21 juillet 2008), ne cherchait pas seulement à.... À PROPOS...

This is the true story of my life, born into a family who lived in poverty on the edge of Bristol. In the early 1930s the economy of England started to improve. This improved my life in that I had my own pair of shoes to wear and some new clothes instead of hand me downs but never enough food. I relate...

Mouldmaking and Casting is a technical manual of the many techniques of this ancient craft and art form. With step-by-step illustrations, it explains the materials required and the processes involved to create reproductions of a range of pieces. The book covers traditional techniques as well as today's more advanced technical methods.

Deriving from the French word rocaille, in reference to the curved forms of shellfish, and the Italian barocco, the French created the term ‘Rococo’. Appearing at the beginning of the 18th century, it rapidly spread to the whole of Europe. Extravagant and light, Rococo responded perfectly to the...