Sculpture category: 234 books
The Spatial Politics of the Sculptural
Art, Capitalism and the Urban Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Space is a formative factor in the production of sculpture. Phenomenological thought interprets sculptural work in relation to the immersive experience of the viewer, situating it within its environment. But what possibilities lie beyond this unitary position? What is the political potential of a...
by DJ Garrity
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
'Stone Carving Unplugged' is an illustrative guide to direct stone carving. Simple hand tools and a basic, easy to follow approach defines this popular stone carving book. Appropriate for novices or experienced stone carvers. Based on the 'Sculpture Workshop Program' created at Mount Rushmore National Memorial by Sculptor-In-Residence, DJ Garrity.
Gandhara
Tecnologia, produzione e conservazione. Indagini preliminari su sculture in pietra e in stucco del Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale ‘Giuseppe Tucci’.
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 13, 2016
La pubblicazione dei dati scaturiti da questa prima ricerca sugli aspetti tecnologici della scultura del Gandhara si pone come un momento assolutamente preliminare, con la consapevolezza di quanto sia necessario ancora approfondire, specie riguardo alla quantità dei reperti da analizzare, provenienti...
Sculptures by Florin Cristea
Carving with Passion
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2018
Take a wonderful adventure into the world of handmade woodcarving!
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born on December 22, 1962, in Romania, Florin Cristea studied Physics and Mathematics in Highschool, and worked as an economist for a while. After the violent events of 1989, he started paving a new path...
by James Lord
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) was arguably the greatest sculptor of the twentieth century. He was also--as James Lord persuasively argued in Giacometti: A Biography--a heroic figure whose vocation sustained him through a life of crippling anxiety and erotic guilt.
Almost twenty...
by Joseph Manca, Patrick Bade, Sarah Costello
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Esta colección de escultura propone una visión del arte occidental auténtica e innovadora que inicia en la antigüedad y acaba en el siglo XX. Aquí reunidas están las obras maestras más sensuales y harmoniosas además de las más provocativas y minimalistas. La escultura como actividad se caracteriza...
Model-making
Materials and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Model-making: Materials and Methods focuses primarily on the wide variety of materials that can be employed to make models; those which have been favoured for a while and those which are relatively new. The book looks at how these materials behave and how to get the best out of them, then illustrates...
by Javier MADERUELO
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 22, 2012
La escultura, durante el convulso y apresurado siglo XX, ha experimentado enormes transformaciones, tanto formales como conceptuales que fueron esenciales en la construcción del pensamiento contemporáneo. Este libro pretende recorrer algunos de los caminos transitados por la escultura por medio...
by A. Victor Coonin
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Michelangelo’s David is the world’s most famous statue, a universal symbol of Florence and of Italy. Hailed as the epitome of Renaissance art, the David has inspired contemporary artists from Warhol to Banksy and has been reproduced in life-size copies all over the globe. Why does a 500-year-old...
The Toaster Project
Or A Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2007
Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster. So begins-áThe Toaster Project, the author's nine-month-long journey from his local appliance store to remote mines in the UK to his mother's backyard, where he creates a crude foundry. Along the way, he learns that an ordinary toaster...
Creating Lifelike Figures in Polymer Clay
Tools and Techniques for Sculpting Realistic Figures
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Katherine Dewey's expressive and elegantly detailed sculptures enchant all who see them. With the magical medium of polymer clay and this book, you can follow in her footsteps.
Thorough instructions supported by more than 400 step-by-step color photos and 200 detailed drawings cover the entire...
Stephen Rolfe Powell
Glassmaker
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
A world-class colorist of international standing in modern glass, Stephen Rolfe Powell creates his work in a quiet outpost of rural Kentucky. His art and his life bridge other such divides. The radiant murrini skins of his glass vessels have an old Italian pedigree, yet his making techniques are radically...
Barry Le Va
The Aesthetic Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Of the conceptual artists who began their careers in the 1960s and 1970s—Bruce Nauman, Chris Burden, Vito Acconci, and Mel Bochner among them—Barry Le Va may be the most elusive. As this first study of his work reveals, his rigorously planned art was instigated to mask its creator’s intentions...
Rodin en 1900. L'exposition de l'Alma et Rodin et l'Italie (Paris - 2001, Rome - 2001)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
L'extraordinaire popularité de Rodin est due autant à la large diffusion de son œuvre qu'aux innombrables commentaires suscités par elle du vivant même de l'artiste, le tout renforcé par le rayonnement du musée Rodin. Ce dernier a son origine dans le legs, fait à la France par l'artiste...
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