Non-graphic and electronic art forms Books
The University of Chicago Press What Did the Romans Know An Inquiry into Science
Book SynopsisThis study explores three of Bernini's baroque chapels to show how he achieved his effects. It examines the ways in which the artist integrated the architecture, painting and sculpture into a coherent space for devotion, and shows how this accomplishment was understood by religious practitioners.Table of ContentsForeword Hubert Damisch Introduction 1: The Fonseca Chapel 2: The Albertoni Chapel 3: The Altar of Sant' Andrea al Quirinale Conclusion: Flights of Love Notes Index
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press WritingsInterviews
Book SynopsisFrom essays like Extended Notes from Sight Point Road to Serra's extended commentary on the Tilted Arc fiasco, the pieces in this volume comprise a document of one artist's engagement with the practical, philosophical and political problems of art.
£31.35
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Hellenistic Architectural Sculpture Figural Motifs in Western Anatolia and the Aegean Islands
Book SynopsisFocusing specifically on the figural adornment of Hellenistic architecture, this study provides extensive information about the chronology and interpretation of figural motifs adorning religious, civic, commercial, commemorative and domestic constructions.Trade ReviewReading the book was pure pleasure. Webb brings together an extraordinary amount of material, ranging from the extremely familiar to the very obscure, and puts it in overall perspective both as sculpture and as architectural elements. I am certain that specialists in both fields will find it useful and enlightening, and also that it will be accessible and enjoyable for non-specialists and readers with little background in Greek art—including undergraduates."—Steven Lattimore, University of California, Los Angeles"Webb's grasp of the scholarship and coverage of the monuments seem all but total, and her careful and judicious critiques of previous opinion are most valuable."—Andrew F. Stewart, University of California, Berkeley
£47.62
Yale University Press The Lightning Field Dia Foundation YALE
Book SynopsisWalter De Maria's Lightning Field (1977) is one of the twentieth century's most significant works of art. This book deploys quotation to effect multiple perspectives and points of view.
£35.62
Yale University Press Rachel Harrison Life Hack
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£45.00
Yale University Press Bill Brandt Henry Moore
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[A] magnificent produce of quality publishing, printed and bound in the United States, with its superb large-size reproductions on heavy glossy paper, its attractive end papers, its sewn, not glued sections – a guarantee of durability for a hefty volume of that category – and its very informative accompanying text…Unreservedly recommended.”—Antoine Capet, Cercles“Well worth picking up…A real treat for nostalgia and history buffs”—Amy Davies, Amateur Photographer“[A] fascinating and beautifully illustrated book”—Roderick Conway Morris, The Lady“The book takes an unusual approach to the reproduction of photographic works, capturing the materiality of the print as a singular, three-dimensional object rather than a flattened image on the page.”—Norfolkchamber.co.uk“The sculptor Henry Moore and photographer Bill Brandt were not nearly so closely connected, nor any sort of couple at all. Nonetheless, as an exhibition and associated book Bill Brandt/Henry Moore bring out, they moved on parallel paths.”—Martin Gayford, SpectatorShortlisted for the 2020 Paris Photo – Aperture Foundation Photo Book Awards, sponsored by The Aperture Foundation
£45.00
Yale University Press Didier Vermeiren
Book SynopsisMarking the occasion of Didier Vermeiren’s eponymous solo exhibition at WIELS in Brussels, this book illuminates the recurrent strategies of repetition, reversal, doubling and inversion that the artist explores in his work
£42.75
Yale University Press Josh Kline
Book SynopsisA deep look at a contemporary artist whose work highlights how the rise of technology and corporate capitalism have disrupted our lives and polarized society
£42.75
Yale University Press Pierre Culot
Book SynopsisA complete overview of the Belgian ceramist Pierre Culot’s career in pottery, sculpture and landscaping, bridging the gap between the British, Japanese and French ceramic traditions
£54.00
WW Norton & Co Smashing Statues The Rise and Fall of Americas
Book SynopsisA leading expert's exploration of the past, present and future of public monuments in America
£19.94
University of California Press Speculative Landscapes
Book SynopsisSpeculative Landscapes offers the first comprehensive account of American artists' financial involvements in and creative responses to the nineteenth-century real estate economy. Examining the dealings of five painters who participated actively in this economyDaniel Huntington, John Quidor, Eastman Johnson, Martin Johnson Heade, and Winslow HomerRoss Barrett argues that the experience of property investment exposed artists to new ways of seeing and representing land, inspiring them to develop innovative figural, landscape, and marine paintings that radically reworked visual conventions. This approach moved beyond just aesthetics, however, and the book traces how artists creatively interrogated the economic, environmental, and cultural dynamics of American real estate capitalism. In doing so, Speculative Landscapes reveals how the provocative experience of land investment spurred painters to produce uniquely insightful critiques of the emerging real estate economy, critiques that uncovered its fiscal perils and social costs and imagined spaces outside the regime of private property. Trade Review"Barrett illuminates a number of new perspectives from the period which make Speculative Landscapes…worth reading." * Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide *"[The book] is exemplary in its purposeful investigations that, in breaking from standard interpretations, enables readers to see and understand multifaceted aspects of works of art with clarity while opening the door to other new inquiries." * Nineteenth Century: The Magazine of the Victorian Society in America *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1. Land, Looking, and Futurity in the Hudson Valley 2. Digging for Gold: Allegories of Speculation on the Illinois Frontier 3. Picturing Land and Labor in the Old Northwest and New England 4. Perilous Prospects: Speculation and Landscape Painting in Florida 5. Painting and Property on Prouts Neck Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£46.75
Princeton University Press Ambitious Form
Book SynopsisDescribes the transformation of Italian sculpture during the neglected half-century between the death of Michelangelo and the rise of Bernini. This book follows the Florentine careers of three major sculptors - Giambologna, Bartolomeo Ammanati, and Vincenzo Danti - as they negotiated the politics of the Medici court and eyed one another's work.Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2012 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011 "In this stimulating offering, Cole investigates sculptural enterprise in Florence during the second half of the 16th century. Focusing on Giambologna, Bartolomeo Ammanati, and Vincenzo Danti, this book is no mere survey of trends or compilation of biographies. It concerns what being a sculptor meant in this dynamic time and place and the nature of the plastic arts themselves. The study, which is as ambitious as its subjects were, succeeds brilliantly... [P]rofoundly original."--Choice "The book is beautifully illustrated and structured around clearly defined thematic chapters, and Cole weaves, or perhaps it would be better to say, builds an art historical text that is just as monumental as the sculptural works he discusses."--Jennifer D. Webb, Sixteenth Century Journal "Cole is persuasive and unsettling enough to ensure that no reader will be able to look at a sixteenth-century sculpture the same way again."--Cammy Brothers, Oxford Art Journal "Ambitious Form has much to recommend it as essential reading for anyone interested in the history of art. Cole's ability to make the reader/viewer take a second and more studied look at an object is repeatedly evinced."--Fredrika Jacobs, European LegacyTable of ContentsIntroduction i Chapter 1: Models 21 Chapter 2: Professions 51 Chapter 3: Naturalism 90 Chapter 4: Pose 121 Chapter 5: Sculpture as Architecture 158 Chapter 6: Chapels 193 Chapter 7: Sculpture in the City 244 Conclusion 283 Photo Credits 287 Notes 293 Acknowledgments 353 Index 357
£55.25
McGill-Queen's University Press Designed Words for a Designed World
Book SynopsisReading concrete poetry as the world’s first global literary movement.Trade Review" Hilder brings fresh life to concrete poetry, providing nuanced details on poets and poems and posing tremendously important questions. Designed Words for a Designed World is a much-needed book on a politically engaged, complex, and varied movement that is still relevant to the 21st century." - Lori Emerson, University of Colorado, Boulder " This study is likely to revive serious interest in an avant-garde experiment that exhibition curator Jasia Reichardt in 1965 hailed as "the first international poetry movement." Highly recommended." Choice
£31.50
Duke University Press Whose Art Is It
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Whose Art Is It? Jane Kramer provides a striking account of the debate surrounding a white artist’s controversial bronze statues of three people from a particularly rough section in the South Bronx." * The American Prospect *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Catharine R. Stimpson 1 Whose Art Is It? / Jane Kramer 37
£21.59
Seattle Art Museum Calder In Motion
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£47.20
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Richard Rezac
Book SynopsisThe title of Richard Rezac's Renaissance Society exhibition, Address, plays on the multivalent quality of the word. As a noun, it refers to a unique identifier of a precise location. As a verb, it refers to a form of communication crafted for a specific people, time, and place. This exhibition drew upon both elements of the word's two meanings: the artist deliberately created and selected works in response to the architecture of the Renaissance Society's gallery space, and the title also nods to the sculptures' relationship to their presumptive audience. This book showcases twenty pieces featured in the exhibition that are made of a wide range of materials including cherry wood, cast bronze, and aluminum and that span Rezac's career--including newly commissioned pieces.s Through the concept of address, the exhibit and book explore the artist's ongoing engagement with both tangible, mathematical ordering systems and the elusive mechanisms of memory and interpretation. This publication continues Rezac's address, extending it to a greater audience of readers through a generous selection of images, a conversation between the artist and curator Solveig vsteb , and new texts by Matthew Goulish, Jennifer R. Gross, and James Rondeau.
£28.50
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Unthought Environments
Book SynopsisUnthought Environments brings together art influenced by the forces that are integral to our daily lives, yet are easily forgotten or overlooked, such as the ancient elements of air, fire, water, and earth; weather systems; geopolitics; and the hidden physical components of our virtual world. Informed by media studies, ecology, and philosophy, these multi-media artworks explore the elemental sphere as it intersects with the human-made. This exhibition catalog brings together images from the exhibition alongside texts that engage directly with the works as well as the larger issues that drive them. Essays by Karsten Lund, John Durham Peters, Keller Easterling, Ina Blom, Marissa Lee Benedict, Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen, and Peter Fend are included, as well as a conversation with Lund, Nicholas Mangan, Robin Watkins, and Nina Canell.
£30.00
Fowler Museum At Ucla World Share
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£21.00
WW Norton & Co Smashing Statues
Book SynopsisA leading expert's exploration of the past, present and future of public monuments in AmericaTrade Review"Comprehensive…Thompson provides a compelling, historical account of how capitalism is both motivator and maintainer of institutional racism…Her examination of 'art crime' as central to understanding our shameful United States history is captivating." -- Jack Christian - Los Angeles Review of Books
£12.34
Temple University Press,U.S. Monument Lab
Book SynopsisWhat is an appropriate monument for the current city of Philadelphia?That was the question posed by the curators, artists, scholars, and students who comprise the Philadelphia-based public art and history studio Monument Lab. And in 2017, along with Mural Arts Philadelphia, they produced and organized a groundbreaking, city-wide exhibition of temporary, site-specific works that engaged directly with the community. The installations, by a cohort of diverse artists considering issues of identity, appeared in iconic public squares and neighborhood parks with research and learning labs and prototype monuments.Monument Lab is a fabulous compendium of the exhibition and a critical reflection of the proceedings, including contributions from interlocutors and collaborators. The exhibition and this handbook were designed to generate new ways of thinking about monuments and public art as well as to find new, critical perspectives to reflect on the monuments we have inherited and to imagine thoseTrade Review“Public art has a long and distinguished history in Philadelphia. Monument Lab was established not only to bring that history up to the present but also to interrogate the very notion of what constitutes art in the public realm. Monument Labis a testimony to the success of the endeavor, a record of the works and conversations related to the project, and a brilliant contribution to the wide conversation about the urgent topics related to the production and display of art outside the walls of a museum.”—Carlos Basualdo, The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art “Monument Lab has taken the current controversies of public art and the future place of monuments and creatively engaged the public in serious and often playful ways. Using the city of Philadelphia with its prominent history and diversity as its inspiring springboard, each project described soars with meaning and conviction. Monument Lab leads the nation in working to achieve cities where public art is embraced by all their occupants and this book reflects their many unique stories.”—Elizabeth Goldstein, President, The Municipal Art Society of New York
£26.59
Duke University Press Media Primitivism
Book SynopsisDelinda Collier finds alternative concepts of mediation in African art by closely engaging with electricity-based works since 1944.Trade Review“Delinda Collier's Media Primitivism is a remarkable journey into the intellectual development of twentieth-century African art and how art objects themselves resist the categories accorded to them. Theoretically sophisticated and brilliantly argued, Media Primitivism poses a serious challenge to those who like their African art suspended in a primordial past.” -- Steven Nelson, author of * From Cameroon to Paris: Mousgoum Architecture In and Out of Africa *“Media Primitivism is an important book that will resituate both media history and the historiography of African art. Delinda Collier convincingly argues that, from electronic music to world cinema, African technologies are not additions to electricity-based media but function as the very basis of them. The historiography is thrilling, the aesthetic analyses compelling, and the theoretical synthesis at times breathtaking.” -- Laura U. Marks, author of * Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image *“Media Primitivism is a nuanced and singular intellectual project that stands to make an impact across the fields of African art, media studies, and art history. . . . Its most exciting contribution is that it breathes new life into the theoretical possibilities proposed by African art itself.” -- Allison K. Young * African Arts *“Media Primitivism is a compelling book that blends media theory, art history, and African art history in a masterful act of theoretical weaving on the part of its author. . . . Tracing deeper technological histories on the continent . . . proves that the question of Africa (as a place and idea) is not additive to media studies, but a foundational aspect of it.” -- Alexandra M. Thomas * Media-N *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. African Art History and the Medium Concept 1 1. Film as Light, Film as Indigenous 31 2. Electronic Sound as Trance ad Resonance 61 3. The Song as Private Property 93 4. Artificial Blackness, or Extraction as Abstraction 119 5. "The Earth and the Substratum Are Not Enough" 153 6. The Seed and the Field 183 Afterword 211 Notes 215 Bibliography 237 Index
£112.20
Duke University Press Media Primitivism
Book SynopsisDelinda Collier finds alternative concepts of mediation in African art by closely engaging with electricity-based works since 1944.Trade Review“Delinda Collier's Media Primitivism is a remarkable journey into the intellectual development of twentieth-century African art and how art objects themselves resist the categories accorded to them. Theoretically sophisticated and brilliantly argued, Media Primitivism poses a serious challenge to those who like their African art suspended in a primordial past.” -- Steven Nelson, author of * From Cameroon to Paris: Mousgoum Architecture In and Out of Africa *“Media Primitivism is an important book that will resituate both media history and the historiography of African art. Delinda Collier convincingly argues that, from electronic music to world cinema, African technologies are not additions to electricity-based media but function as the very basis of them. The historiography is thrilling, the aesthetic analyses compelling, and the theoretical synthesis at times breathtaking.” -- Laura U. Marks, author of * Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image *“Media Primitivism is a nuanced and singular intellectual project that stands to make an impact across the fields of African art, media studies, and art history. . . . Its most exciting contribution is that it breathes new life into the theoretical possibilities proposed by African art itself.” -- Allison K. Young * African Arts *“Media Primitivism is a compelling book that blends media theory, art history, and African art history in a masterful act of theoretical weaving on the part of its author. . . . Tracing deeper technological histories on the continent . . . proves that the question of Africa (as a place and idea) is not additive to media studies, but a foundational aspect of it.” -- Alexandra M. Thomas * Media-N *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. African Art History and the Medium Concept 1 1. Film as Light, Film as Indigenous 31 2. Electronic Sound as Trance ad Resonance 61 3. The Song as Private Property 93 4. Artificial Blackness, or Extraction as Abstraction 119 5. "The Earth and the Substratum Are Not Enough" 153 6. The Seed and the Field 183 Afterword 211 Notes 215 Bibliography 237 Index
£28.80
Duke University Press Gods in the Time of Democracy
Book SynopsisKajri Jain examines how the monumental statues erected in India following its economic reforms in the 1990s became a favored religious and political form with which to assert cultural, political, religious, and caste power.Trade Review“Instead of lamenting the lack of a progressive secular spirit, Kajri Jain offers a rich, complex, and thoroughly fascinating account of how religiosity itself is being transformed in contemporary India into a public arena of democratic politics. Combining capitalist ambition with electoral competition, the proliferation of religious statuary brings together sacred texts, technology, automobility, and numerology into a new political aesthetic of monumentalism and spectacle. Jain argues persuasively that aesthetics is constitutive of politics, often in unexpected ways.” -- Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University“Kajri Jain's extraordinary book on monumental statuary cuts across art history and visual culture. Gods and leaders are together framed within what she startlingly calls ‘the aesthetics of democracy.’ Here aesthetics as a redistributive principle generates her premise of emergence: counter-positioning of the oppressed majority, their appropriation of image, material structures, and publics within India's severely stratified society increasingly subject to fascistic Hindutva. The rise of right-wing regimes worldwide will position Jain's brilliant discourse within complex contestations on what is the aesthetics of democracy today.” -- Geeta Kapur, author of * When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India *“Gods in the Time of Democracy is a complex and challenging attempt at reframing the discussion around monumental iconography in India and its diaspora.... The book is a valuable contribution to contemporary art history and religious studies.” -- Manasvin Rajagopalan * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Emergence 1 1. Statues and Sculptors 29 2. Democracy 81 3. Iconopraxis 120 4. Cars and Land 181 5. Scale 220 Notes 259 Bibliography 307 Index 323
£80.75
University of Toronto Press Seeing Through Closed Eyelids
Book SynopsisCan a work of art help us know our world differently? In this first scholarly study of Giuseppe Penone, art historian Elizabeth Mangini argues that the Italian artist’s engagement of the body’s multiple senses constitutes a new theory of sculpture as a means to connect with and know the phenomenal world. Through close readings of signal works across Penone’s five-decade career – from his emergence in the context of 1960s Arte povera to his position as a pre-eminent contemporary artist today – Mangini demonstrates how Penone refuses modernist opticality, recasts artistic labour, and emphasizes a non-anthropocentric concept of time. Penone’s approach challenges viewers to broaden their sensory and temporal perceptions, creating structurally significant new ways to understand human experience.Giuseppe Penone is best known for his engagement with trees, which he employs as raw material, imagery, and an active force in the creative process
£20.69
University of Nebraska Press Race Experts
Book SynopsisCharles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum In Race ExpertsLinda 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 in fine arts and was a protégé of Auguste Rodin and Ivan Meštrovic, she had no background in anthropology or museum exhibits. Nonetheless, the Field Museum commissioned her to make a series of life-size sculptures for the museum’s new racial exhibition, which became the largest exhibit on race ever installed in a museum and one of the largest sculptural commissions ever undertaken by a single artist. Hoffman’s Races of Mankind exhibit was realized as a series of 104 bronzes of racial types from around the world, a unique visual mediation between anthropological expertise and lay ideaTrade Review"Kim's book, well researched and eloquently presented, is a necessary corrective and intervention on the interwar period, when scientists and cultural anthropologists were theorizing race in new, more complex ways."—K. P. Buick, Choice"Throughout her book, Kim’s analysis of the intersection of 1930s “race experts”—scientists, artists, and lay persons—is rich and insightful and it has relevance for understanding the processes through which race is constructed today. It is worth a close reading."—Dr. Mary Jo Arnoldi, New England Quarterly“Race Experts performs a great service to students of American race and racism, revealing in detail the way that twentieth-century race ideology was produced at the nexus of formal systems of thought, aesthetics, and entertainment culture. . . . Meticulously researched and brilliantly narrated, the story Kim tells of the history of race stubbornly asserts itself as contemporary critique. Along the way, Kim makes plain the significant role that world’s fairs and international expositions have played in the staging of race and making of modernity.”—Tracey Jean Boisseau, associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Purdue University and author of White Queen: The Imperial Origins of American Feminist Identity “Innovative and well-documented. . . . Kim deftly explores such important questions as the agency of the artist and her models, scientific ideas of race, and the viewing public’s racialism. It is an ambitious argument in the best sense.”—Alice L. Conklin, Distinguished University Scholar and professor of history at Ohio State University “The question of how and why scientific expertise fails to dislodge popular, antithetical views is very important. Linda Kim’s argument that art served as a mediator is an interesting and original approach to the issue of how scientific knowledge is represented to the public and the vexed relationship between the two. This interdisciplinary work will likely attract readers in many fields, including art history, anthropology, history, and museum studies.”—Julia E. Liss, professor of history at Scripps CollegeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editors’ Introduction Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. Racial Know-How: Expertise versus Common Sense Chapter Two. Mediations: Art in the Natural History Museum Chapter Three. Racial Portraiture: Between Typologies and Common Sense Chapter Four. Racial Homelands: Popular Geography and Local Races Chapter Five. Micro-Expertise: Passing for Indian, Passing for White Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£28.80
University of Pennsylvania Press Horatio Greenough: The First American Sculptor
Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length biography of Horatio Greenough. Aside from a short fifty page account published in 1853, no one up to now has attempted to write the complete story of his life. Greenough, who lived from 1805 to 1852, was the first American to devote himself from the outset of his career to the profession of sculpture and the first to set forth at any length the concept of functionalism in architecture. He was generally forgotten after his death, chiefly because the heroic, classical tradition in sculpture to which he was committed gave place to the realistic depiction of subjects in the dress of their times. On the other hand, his architectural theory, for which he was far in advance of his time, made little impression on his contemporaries. In recent years he has been hailed as a forerunner of the architectural functionalists while his sculpture has been disparaged. Actually, his achievement in both these areas is considerable and highly significant in the history of American culture. In this book Greenough's life is examined with a broad, historical, American-culture point of view rather than the specialized view of the art critic. Especially interesting and informative are the discussions of his virtual founding of the American colony in Florence; his association with such notable contemporaries as James Fenimore Cooper, Samuel F. B. Morse and Ralph Waldo Emerson; and his dealings with the United States government in the execution of two major works. One was the controversial "Washington," intended for the rotund. of the Capitol but, widely objected to because the figure was half-nude, now in the Smithsonian Institution; the other was "The Rescue," consisting of a pioneer restraining an Indian from killing a pioneer woman and child, a group which stood on the east front of the Capitol until its recent remodeling. This book contains liberal quotations from previously unpublished letters of Greenough and accounts of nineteenth-century American travelers in Italy. In addition, there is a catalogue of the artist's sculpture and fifty plates (with seventy-eight individual illustrations), including photographs or drawings of most of his sculptures and photographs of representative specimens of his drawings, the majority of which are being published for the first time.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations PART I 1. Boston Boy: 1805-1825 2. Student Abroad and Critic at Home: 1825-1828 3. Art Colonist: 1828-1836 PART II 4. Spokesman for the Nation PART III 5. Florentine American: 1837-1851 6. Yankee Philosopher: 1851-1852 Notes Index (Including a catalogue of sculpture)
£79.20
University of Minnesota Press Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert
Book SynopsisAn expansive and revelatory study of Robert Smithson’s life and the hidden influences on his iconic creations This first biography of the major American artist Robert Smithson, famous as the creator of the Spiral Jetty, deepens understanding of his art by addressing the potent forces in his life that were shrouded by his success, including his suppressed early history as a painter; his affiliation with Christianity, astrology, and alchemy; and his sexual fluidity. Integrating extensive investigation and acuity, Suzaan Boettger uncovers Smithson’s story and, with it, symbolic meanings across the span of his painted and drawn images, sculptures, essays, and earthworks up to the Spiral Jetty and beyond, to the circumstances leading to what became his final work, Amarillo Ramp.While Smithson is widely known for his monumental earthwork at the edge of the Great Salt Lake, Inside the Spiral delves into the arc of his artistic production, recognizing it as a response to his family’s history of loss, which prompted his birth and shaped his strange intelligence. Smithson configured his personal conflicts within painterly depictions of Christ’s passion, the rhetoric of science fiction, imagery from occult systems, and the impersonal posture of conceptual sculpture. Aiming to achieve renown, he veiled his personal passions and transmuted his professional persona, becoming an acclaimed innovator and fierce voice in the New York art scene.Featuring copious illustrations never before published of early work that eluded Smithson’s destruction, as well as photographs of Smithson and his wife, the noted sculptor Nancy Holt, and recollections from nearly all those who knew him throughout his life, Inside the Spiral offers unprecedented insight into the hidden impulses of one of modern art’s most enigmatic figures. With great sensitivity to the experiences of loss and existential strife that defined his distinct artistic language, this biographical analysis provides an expanded view of Smithson’s iconic art pilgrimage site and the experiences and works that brought him to its peculiar blood red water.Trade Review "Only someone who has immersed themselves in the life and art of Robert Smithson for forty years could have written a biography as deep and engaging as Inside the Spiral. Suzaan Boettger illuminates the artist’s religious thought, examines the complexities of his gender identity, and takes a psychoanalytic lens to his sources and esoteric symbolism, bringing coherence to our understanding of this remarkably complicated artist, his body of work, and his writings. A monumental achievement."—Jonathan Fineberg, University of the Arts, author of Modern Art at the Border of Mind and Brain "Suzaan Boettger’s long-awaited Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert Smithson is the first biography of this 'enantiomorphic' artist, whose oeuvre encompassed geological and sacred time alongside the moment of the snapshot, the 'dematerialized' theorizing and mapping of the non-site alongside the absolute site-specificity—viewable from outer space—of the Great Salt Lake. Boettger reveals fascinating and hitherto unexplored aspects of Smithson’s earliest formation, including his status as a 'replacement child' for a dead older brother, while her fearless exploration of the artist’s Christological bent, his hermeticism, and his difficult navigation of sexuality yields nuanced psychological insight. Unburdened by academic jargon, the work is supported by extensive reference to Smithson’s writings, notes, interviews, library, and other records, of which Boettger has long been recognized as the foremost scholar."—Judith Rodenbeck, University of California, Riverside "This book sheds important new light on Robert Smithson. Meticulously researched and wide-ranging in scope, it explores the intricate connections between Smithson’s personal history and his art. While revealing a great deal of new information about Smithson’s life and psychology, Suzaan Boettger also engages with his art in a focused and detailed way and writes about individual works with great perceptiveness. Readers will come away from this book with a fresh and enlarged understanding of Smithson’s life and art."—Jack Flam, editor of Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings"[An] extensive biography of an artist I have stood by for some fifty years which is impossible not to consider definitive, particularly in its investigation of the artist’s unconscious as well as conscious motives."—Joseph Masheck, The Brooklyn Rail "That his art appears larger after reading Inside the Spiral is as much credit to his own capacious imagination as it is to Boettger’s ingenious attempts to contain it."—Artforum"Inside the Spiral is one of the most informative and well written biographies I have ever had the pleasure of reading. To use the American vernacular, Suzaan Boettger can write like 'hot-damn'!" —Robert Maddox-Harle, Leonardo Reviews
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Getty Trust Publications Making Art Concrete - Works from Argentina and
Book SynopsisIn the years after World War II, artists in Argentinaand Brazil experimented with geo- metric abstractionand engaged in lively debates about the role of theartwork in society. Some of these artists used novelsynthetic materials, creating objects that offered analternative to established traditions in painting-proposing that these objects become part ofeveryday, concrete reality. Combining art historicaland scientific analysis, experts from the GettyConservation Institute and Getty Research Instituteare collaborating with the Coleccio n Patricia Phelpsde Cisneros, a world-renowned collection of LatinAmerican art, to research the formal strategies andmaterial decisions of these artists working in theconcrete and neo-concrete vein.Making Art Concrete presents works by Lygia Clark,Willys de Castro, Judith Lauand, Rau l Lozza, Toma sMaldonado, He lio Oiticica, and Rhod Rothfuss, amongothers with new spectacular photography. Thephotographs, along with information about the now-invisible processes that determine the appearance ofthese works, are key to interpreting the artists' technical choices as well as the objects themselves. Indeed, this volume sheds further light on the social, political, and cultural underpinnings of the artists' propositions, making a compelling addition to the field of postwar Latin American art.
£16.99
Getty Trust Publications The Conservation of Medieval Polychrome Wood
Book SynopsisMedieval polychrome wood sculptures are highly complex objects, bearers of histories that begin with their original carving and adornment and continue through long centuries of repainting, deterioration, restoration, and conservation. Abundantly illustrated, this book is the first in English to offer a comprehensive overview of the conservation of medieval painted wood sculpture for conservators, curators, and others charged with their care. Beginning with an illuminating discussion of the history, techniques, and meanings of these works, it continues with their examination and documentation, including chapters on the identification of both the wooden support and the polychromy itself-the paint layers, metal leaf, and other materials used for these sculptures. The volume also covers the many aspects of treatment: the process of determining the best approach; consolidation and adhesion of paint, ground, and support; overpaint removal and surface cleaning; and compensation. Four case studies on artworks in the collection of The Cloisters in New York, a comprehensive bibliography, and a checklist to aid in documentation complement the text.
£54.00
University of Arkansas Press The Sculpture of Robyn Horn
Book SynopsisIn Robyn Horn's thirty years as a wood sculptor, her work has evolved from small, lathe-turned objects to ten-foot-high redwood compositions like her Already Set in Motion #1170, which graces a garden at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. In creating these forms that rise from the earth at improbable angles, Horn's primary tool is the chainsaw, and yet a tenderness for her medium reveals itself in the delicate balance of planes that allows her sculptures to both loom and flow, visually indicating that they are precarious when in fact they are sturdy. The essays and images in The Sculpture of Robyn Horn sketch the industrious career of this Little Rock, Arkansas-based sculptor, illuminating her attention to geometry, physics, and the philosophy of design, and exploring the context and origin of the various series—Geodes, Millstones, Standing Stones, and Slipping Stones, among others—that characterize her body of work.Trade ReviewSurely, it's a testament to our time that a lady hefting a chainsaw now feels like a very natural thing, and in fact somehow does not seem out of harmony with a strangely sensitive side to these works their attention to the organic and to the properties of natural life and growth. But,whether it's the cutting that goes against the grain or with the grain, in both cases we feel we're attuned not to something weak and demure, but to a powerful force-a force to be reckoned with." - Henry Adams, Case Western Reserve University, in Defiance of Gravity
£52.50
Brandeis University Press Ducks on Parade!
Book SynopsisInspired by Robert McCloskey‘s beloved children’s book of the same name, the iconic bronze Make Way for Ducklings sculpture in Boston’s Public Garden has come to serve as something of a record of the recent decades of life in the city itself. In a series of delightful photographs taken by members of the public, Ducks on Parade! chronicles many of the original, moving, humorous, and startling outfits that artistic Bostonians have dressed the ducks in. From summer hats to winter scarves, from the Women’s March to Black Lives Matter, the ducks reflect the life of the city and our country. Featuring a text by sculptor Nancy Schön, this book is a tribute to all Bostonians whose creativity and generosity have made this constant collaborative art possible. More than this, it is a revealing look at the lasting power of public art and how viewers can also be participants. Ducks on Parade! is perfect for whimsical readers of any age. Trade Review“Few works of art hold such a special place in so many hearts as Schön’s Make Way for Ducklings sculpture in Boston’s Public Garden. This tribute to one of the greatest American children’s books has become one of our city’s most iconic landmarks. Soon after Mrs. Mallard and her eight ducklings made their home there in 1987 they took on lives of their own. The people of Boston didn’t just admire the new sculpture, they embraced it with open arms. People started adorning the ducks with holiday decorations and symbols of Boston pride. A new Boston tradition took off, and it’s here to stay.” -- Martin J. Walsh, Mayor of Boston"Over the years, the iconic “Make Way for Ducklings” sculpture in the Public Garden, with its ever-changing array of topical attire, has come to represent an evolving Boston through the lens of current events, and [Ducks on Parade!] explores this local phenomenon using images of the Ducks donning some of their most memorable costumes." * Beacon Hill Times *"The simplicity and beauty of this book belie its importance. The photographs are a testament to the power of public art. Public art can connect, it can touch and sometimes maybe influence. Perhaps the ducklings help us look at the world differently." * MetroWest Daily News *"At age 92, Schön put together her own book. . . . it's a photographic journey of the ducks dressed in uniforms of Boston's sports teams when they are in the playoffs, COVID-19 face masks, and lace collars to honor the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg." * AAA Explorer *Table of ContentsForeword, Introduction, Four Seasons of Ducks, Ducks with a Message, About the Public Gardens, Acknowledgments
£12.00
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Early Irish Sculpture and the Art of the High
Book SynopsisAn exciting new account of Irish high crosses This landmark study of Irish high crosses focuses on the carvings of an unnamed artist, the “Muiredach Master,” whose monuments—completed in the early years of the 10th century—deserve a place alongside the Book of Kells as great works of their time. Drawing on a wealth of recent research, Roger Stalley describes in vivid detail how the crosses were made, where they were carved, and how they were lifted into place. His lively prose situates the works in their context, identifying patrons and exploring their motives, as well as venturing to understand what the crosses may have meant to those who gazed at them a millennium ago. In doing so, Stalley rejects preconceived notions about the imagery of the crosses, including the extent to which they were inspired by images from abroad. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“Engagingly and expertly written by Roger Stalley, Early Irish Sculpture and the Art of the High Crosses is the ideal replacement or preparation for a visit to these unparalleled works of art.”—Christopher Howse, The Tablet“[W]ell written and widely researched. . . . I join with the author in wishing that the book will make high crosses better known outside Ireland.”—Peter Harbison, Irish Arts Review“Roger Stalley demonstrates yet again his status as one of the pre-eminent art historians of the Middle Ages. Displayed throughout this book is an ability to blend an engaging and readable summary with an encyclopaedic knowledge, where the overall narrative never gets lost in the detail. As such, this volume is destined to become a landmark in the study and understanding of Ireland’s high crosses and medieval art.”—Patrick Gleeson, Journal of Irish Archaeology“Explores how High Crosses were constructed; how and where the stone was quarried and carved. . . . This approach leads to new insights into the crosses.”—Elizabeth Alexander, Burlington Magazine
£38.00
Rutgers University Press Liu Shiming
£32.40
Instituto Monsa de Ediciones Needle work
Book SynopsisNeedle Work: Stitched Illustrations is a lavishly illustrated volume that explores the growing trend in textile-based art and illustration. The works of each featured artist are showcased with full-page illustrations, alongside a brief biography that examines their work, inspiration, and artistic vision.
£21.90
Marquand Books Inc Determined to Be: The Sculpture of John Rhoden
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£52.14
Vaso Roto Ediciones Javier Marin: La Entereza de Los Cuerpos
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Indias Biennale Effect
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£39.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Sculpture and Psychoanalysis SubjectObject New Studies in Sculpture
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£137.75
Cambridge University Press Personal Styles in Greek Sculpture
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£37.99
Cambridge University Press Greek Sculpture and the Problem of Description
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£85.50
James Clarke & Co Ltd Maskwork The Background Making and Use of Masks
Book SynopsisA practical study of the art of masks and mask-making, combined with an exploration of their cultural and anthropological history.Table of ContentsPrologue Acknowledgements of Photographs Introduction What are Masks? Masks as resources Planning a Project Project 1: First steps Project 2: Shape-Masks Project 3: Changing Faces Project 4: Symmetry & Collage Project 5: Theatre, Mask & Myth Project 6: Character & Commedia Project 7: Gods, Dragons & Demons Project 8: Masquerade Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£41.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Testament to Union
Book SynopsisFor tourists and long-time residents, and for anyone interested in the Civil War or public art, Testament to Union is a wonderful guide to these tangible connections to the nation's past and an era when public monuments packed powerful messages.Trade ReviewReading this book makes me want to jump in the car, drive down to Washington and look at these monuments with new eyes. It provides a wonderful example of what historic travel is all about and the way it can add a whole new dimension to a visit... Jacob takes what could have been a dry topic and turns it into a fascinating behind-the-pedestals look at 41 Civil War monuments in the nation's capital. -- Tom Huntington, Editor Historic Traveler Rich and fascinating and packed with the kind of detail that can only come with total immersion in a subject, Testament to Union is a Washingtonian's jewel hoard... We are, in short, in the hands of a master of anecdote, who leads the reader from one end of the town to the other by the stories and histories behind the sightless faces of the sculptured heroes and their attendant figures. -- Duncan Spencer Washington Times Readable and well illustrated... Each entry sets the memorial in its political and artistic context and traces the story of its design, construction, and dedication. These accounts are well researched, vivid, and revealing, as Jacob weaves in human stories about controversies, sponsors, and sculptors. -- Catherine W. Bishir Journal of Southern History 2000 Jacob's book is a handsomely produced catalog of the Civil War monuments located in the Washington, D.C., area, with excellent new photographs. -- Kirk Savage Public Historian 1999 Jacob's remarkable volume vividly animates our understanding of the resonant connections between art and history within a politically charged civic matrix, and she skillfully conveys the complexities inherent in historical commemoration. -- Betsy Fahlman Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 1999Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMonumentsChapter 1. Arsenal MonumentChapter 2. EmancipationChapter 3. Veterans of Foreign Wars TributeChapter 4. FreedomChapter 5. James A. Garfield MemorialChapter 6. Ulysses S. Grant MemorialChapter 7. Peace MonumentChapter 8. Major General George Gordon Meade MemorialChapter 9. Albert Pike Memorial Chapter 10. Pension BuildingChapter 11. Abraham Lincoln, Judiciary SquareChapter 12. Benjamin Franklin Stephenson and the Grand Army of the Republic MemorialChapter 13. Major General Winfield Scott HancockChapter 14. Admiral David Farragut, United States Navy MemorialChapter 15. Major General John A. LoganChapter 16. Major General George H. ThomasChapter 17. Brigadier General James Birdseye McPhersonChapter 18. General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument Chapter 19. Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, Scott Circle Chapter 20. Admiral David Farragut, Farragut SquareChapter 21. Major General John A. RawlinsChapter 22. Abraham Lincoln, Rail Fence MenderChapter 23. John Ericsson MonumentChapter 24. Lincoln MemorialChapter 25. Nuns of the BattlefieldChapter 26. Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont Memorial FountainChapter 27. Major General George B. McClellanChapter 28. General Philip H. SheridanChapter 29. 25th New. York Volunteers MonumentChapter 30. Lincoln Under FireChapter 31. African-American Civil War Memorial Chapter 32. Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, Soldiers' HomeChapter 33. Abraham Lincoln, Fort Lincoln Cemetery Chapter 34. Arlington National Cemetery Chapter 35. Major John Rodgers MeigsChapter 36. Major General William Worth Belknap Monument Chapter 37. Major General Philip KearnyChapter 38. Confederate MonumentChapter 39. Brigadier General Richard L. Hoxie and Vinnie Ream Hoxie MonumentChapter 40. Major General Henry W. Lawton MonumentChapter 41. Alexandria Confederate MemorialAppendix A. Monuments by Date of InstallationAppendix B. Alphabetical List of Monuments with Sculptors Appendix C. Alphabetical List of Sculptors with MonumentsOther Sources ConsultedIndex
£40.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Testament to Union Civil War Monuments in
Book SynopsisFor tourists and long-time residents, and for anyone interested in the Civil War or public art, Testament to Union is a wonderful guide to these tangible connections to the nation's past and an era when public monuments packed powerful messages.Trade ReviewReading this book makes me want to jump in the car, drive down to Washington and look at these monuments with new eyes. It provides a wonderful example of what historic travel is all about and the way it can add a whole new dimension to a visit... Jacob takes what could have been a dry topic and turns it into a fascinating behind-the-pedestals look at 41 Civil War monuments in the nation's capital. -- Tom Huntington, Editor Historic Traveler Rich and fascinating and packed with the kind of detail that can only come with total immersion in a subject, Testament to Union is a Washingtonian's jewel hoard... We are, in short, in the hands of a master of anecdote, who leads the reader from one end of the town to the other by the stories and histories behind the sightless faces of the sculptured heroes and their attendant figures. -- Duncan Spencer Washington Times Readable and well illustrated... Each entry sets the memorial in its political and artistic context and traces the story of its design, construction, and dedication. These accounts are well researched, vivid, and revealing, as Jacob weaves in human stories about controversies, sponsors, and sculptors. -- Catherine W. Bishir Journal of Southern History 2000 Jacob's book is a handsomely produced catalog of the Civil War monuments located in the Washington, D.C., area, with excellent new photographs. -- Kirk Savage Public Historian 1999 Jacob's remarkable volume vividly animates our understanding of the resonant connections between art and history within a politically charged civic matrix, and she skillfully conveys the complexities inherent in historical commemoration. -- Betsy Fahlman Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 1999Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMonumentsChapter 1. Arsenal MonumentChapter 2. EmancipationChapter 3. Veterans of Foreign Wars TributeChapter 4. FreedomChapter 5. James A. Garfield MemorialChapter 6. Ulysses S. Grant MemorialChapter 7. Peace MonumentChapter 8. Major General George Gordon Meade MemorialChapter 9. Albert Pike Memorial Chapter 10. Pension BuildingChapter 11. Abraham Lincoln, Judiciary SquareChapter 12. Benjamin Franklin Stephenson and the Grand Army of the Republic MemorialChapter 13. Major General Winfield Scott HancockChapter 14. Admiral David Farragut, United States Navy MemorialChapter 15. Major General John A. LoganChapter 16. Major General George H. ThomasChapter 17. Brigadier General James Birdseye McPhersonChapter 18. General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument Chapter 19. Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, Scott Circle Chapter 20. Admiral David Farragut, Farragut SquareChapter 21. Major General John A. RawlinsChapter 22. Abraham Lincoln, Rail Fence MenderChapter 23. John Ericsson MonumentChapter 24. Lincoln MemorialChapter 25. Nuns of the BattlefieldChapter 26. Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont Memorial FountainChapter 27. Major General George B. McClellanChapter 28. General Philip H. SheridanChapter 29. 25th New. York Volunteers MonumentChapter 30. Lincoln Under FireChapter 31. African-American Civil War Memorial Chapter 32. Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, Soldiers' HomeChapter 33. Abraham Lincoln, Fort Lincoln Cemetery Chapter 34. Arlington National Cemetery Chapter 35. Major John Rodgers MeigsChapter 36. Major General William Worth Belknap Monument Chapter 37. Major General Philip KearnyChapter 38. Confederate MonumentChapter 39. Brigadier General Richard L. Hoxie and Vinnie Ream Hoxie MonumentChapter 40. Major General Henry W. Lawton MonumentChapter 41. Alexandria Confederate MemorialAppendix A. Monuments by Date of InstallationAppendix B. Alphabetical List of Monuments with Sculptors Appendix C. Alphabetical List of Sculptors with MonumentsOther Sources ConsultedIndex
£29.71
British Museum Press Remote Possibilities Hoa Hakananaia and HMS
Book SynopsisThis paper is a considerably revised version of the 1992 British Museum Occasional Paper No. 73 by the same author. The book describes how, when and by whom Hoa Hakanai'a was collected. It also reconstructs the underlying Rapanui aesthetic and social structure that produced Hoa Hakanai'a , and which has been obscured by time and historic accident.
£32.27
Te Herenga Waka University Press Wellington A City for Sculpture
Book SynopsisFeaturing brilliant urban photography, this celebration of the dynamic presence of sculpture in Wellington vividly captures more than 40 sculptures throughout the cityâs streets and parks. An informative and provocative examination of the sculptures' origins, this collection shows how many of the gorgeous art works came into being due to the shared vision of individuals, government agencies, and corporations who value the relationship of art and city, to brighten the lives of its citizens. The result is both a visual feast and a unique record of the 21st-century cityâs fabricâsure to be treasured by travelers, art enthusiasts, and locals alike.
£30.35
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Bronzes Sculptors and Founders 18001930 v 3
Book SynopsisThis is the third volume of the definitive reference series dealing with commercial bronze sculptures in the period 1800 to 1930. This period spans the rise and decline of commercial industrial foundries in Europe, especially in France, and a wide array of international sculptors. Together, they produced millions of fine statuettes for the general public. Volume 3 includes 1315 photographs of sculptures on 320 pages with information on the Hirsch Foundry of Paris and Brooklyn, New York. It incorporates lists of the sculptors whose work is shown, the founders represented, and 21 different founders'' seals. The photographs are remarkably clear enabeling small details in the sculptures to be visible. With this reference series, collectors will be able to identify many of the old commercial bronzes found on the market today.
£58.39
American Numismatic Society The Early Betts Medal Companion
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£118.75
Random House USA Inc Poems About Sculpture
Book SynopsisPoems About Sculpture is a unique anthology of poems from around the world and across the ages about our most enduring art form. Sculpture has the longest memory of the arts: from the Paleolithic era, we find stone carvings and clay figures embedded with human longing. And poets have long been fascinated by the idea of eternity embodied by the monumental temples and fragmented statues of ancient civilizations. From Keats’s Grecian urn and Shelley’s “Ozymandias” to contemporary verse about Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Janet Echelman’s wind-borne hovering nets, the pieces in this collection convert the physical materials of the plastic arts—clay, wood, glass, marble, granite, bronze, and more—into lapidary lines of poetry. Whether the sculptures celebrated here commemorate love or war, objects or apparitions, forms human or divine, they have called forth evocative responses from a wide range of poets, including Homer, Ovid, Shakespeare, Baudelaire, Rilke, Dickinson, Yeats, Auden, and Plath. A compendium of dazzling examples of one art form reflecting on another, Poems About Sculpture is a treat for art lovers of all kinds.
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