Sculpture category: 234 books
![Cover of Aberto [Open]: Culture Kiosk](https://www.kuoky.com/images/2017/march/300x300/9788594930262-dA5X_300x.jpg)
by Fabiana de Barros
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Created by artist Fabiana de Barros in 1998, when she took part in an artistic exchange between Switzerland, Brazil, and France, in João Pessoa (state of Paraíba), the Fiteiro Cultural [Culture Kiosk] had the intention of being an ideal space, capable of transforming into an atelier, a stage, an...
BCNFreeArt 01
The Port and Barceloneta. A guide to free art in Barcelona
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Why free art in Barcelona?
The idea for these guides sprang from hard times. Whether in boom or recession, art remains fundamental. But while free art is a great idea, not all great art is free. So this guide takes you places where there is no admission fee.
BCN Free Art 01: The Port...
Histoire du portrait en cire de Julius von Schlosser
Les Fiches de Lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Fondée à la fin du xix e siècle par Franz Wickhoff et Aloïs Riegl, l'école viennoise d'histoire de l'art a formé des chercheurs importants: Fritz Saxl, Max Dvořák ou encore Otto Pächt, un de ses derniers représentants....
Aux origines de l'abstraction, 1800-1914 (Paris - 2003)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
En France, une exposition sur l'abstraction se faisait attendre. Elle a enfin eu lieu, du 5 novembre 2003 au 22 février 2004, au musée d'Orsay, dont le président, Serge Lemoine, associé à Pascal Rousseau, maître de conférences à l'université de Tours, proposait aux visiteurs de...
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Yayoi Kusama (Paris - 2001)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Le Consortium, le centre d'art de Dijon, a eu l'idée d'inviter l'artiste Yayoi Kusama à concevoir les installations monumentales que l'on a pu découvrir à la Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris du 13 février au 19 mai 2001. Précurseur du pop art et de l'art environnemental, star oubliée...
Dan Flavin (Paris - 2006)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Aussi étonnant que cela puisse paraître, la rétrospective consacrée à l'artiste américain Dan Flavin (1933-1996) par le musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, accueillant, du 9 juin au 8 octobre 2006, un projet itinérant conçu par la Dia Foundation de New York, était la première organisée...
Gilbert & George (Paris - 1997)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2016
«Il est bien que nous soyons présents dans les œuvres pour rappeler au spectateur qu'il ne s'agit pas de simples œuvres d'art aussi ennuyeuses que les autres, d'expériences esthétiques. C'est nous qui nous adressons à eux.»...
À PROPOS DE L’ENCYCLOPAEDIA UNIVERSALIS
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by François Blondel
Language: French
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Cette nouvelle monographie consacrée à Amedeo Modigliani est une réalisation originale et innovante, alliant textes, informations pointues, ainsi qu'une iconographie très abondante et judicieusement placée. Elle s’adresse à tous les publics.
En replaçant les tableaux, sculptures et...
by Mary Stieber
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Some of the loveliest works of Archaic art were the Athenian korai—sculptures of beautiful young women presenting offerings to the goddess Athena that stood on the Acropolis. Sculpted in the sixth and early fifth centuries B.C., they served as votives until Persians sacked the citadel in 480/79 B.C....
Remembered in Bronze and Stone
Canada's Great War Memorial Statuary
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Remembered in Broze and Stone evokes the years immediately following the First World War, when grief was still freshly felt in communities from one end of Canada to the other. This book tells the story of the nation’s war memorials—particularly bronze or stone sculptures depicting Canadian soldiers—through...
Ardmore. We Are Because of Others
The Story of Fée Halsted and Ardmore Ceramic Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Colourful, imaginative, vibrant, delicate and dramatic – these are just some of the hallmarks of the artworks that have garnered international accolades for Ardmore Ceramic Art in rural KwaZulu-Natal. It is here, in South Africa’s most successful ceramics studio set in the verdant Midlands, that...
by Jane Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 1994
Whose Art Is It? is the story of sculptor John Ahearn, a white artist in a black and Hispanic neighborhood of the South Bronx, and of the people he cast for a series of public sculptures commissioned for an intersection outside a police station. Jane Kramer, telling this story, raises one of the most...
Graham Ibbeson The People's Sculptor
Bronze, Clay and Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Just William’. The name conjures memories of Richmal Crompton’s favourite character. No childhood was complete without the outrageous exploits of William and his constant companions, ‘The Outlaws.’ Sculptor Graham Ibbeson was beguiled by the words in the bestselling books and by the portrait...
Brian Honyouti
Hopi Carver
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Although Hopi carver Brian Honyouti (1947-2016) was deeply embedded in his culture and produced ritual artworks throughout his life, he nevertheless also created unique commercial artworks. The latter, the focus of this volume, increasingly diverged from the world view embodied in Hopi art, ceremony,...