Non-graphic and electronic art forms Books
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sculpting in Wire
Book SynopsisA fun and comprehensive introduction to sculpting in wire with 6 step-by-step projects. This book is a clear, lively and fun introduction to sculpting in wire. Very much aimed at beginners, there are 6 projects of increasing difficulty, aiming to teach you how to sculpt in wire from the most basic starting point up through to soldering. The first projects give you information about wire and using pliers, and then how to incorporate other materials such as tin, feathers and material to your work. The last project includes the use of some simple silver soldering. Get started with clear step-by-step images that show you the processes involved in every project and be inspired by the work of contemporary artists showing everything from hats and shoes, to life-size figures, sheep and even elephants.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Getting Started Inspiration Wire Equipment and Tools Soldering Equipment Basic Techniques Basic Wire Manipulation 2. The Pelican 3. Tortoiseshell Butterfly 4. The Czechoslovakian Teapot 5. The Sheep 6. The Bi-Plane Gallery Appendices List of Suppliers Websites of Artists US Wire Gauge Sizes Index
£22.50
University of Minnesota Press Tsuchi: Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese
Book SynopsisAn examination of Japanese contemporary art through the lens of ecocriticism and environmental history Collectively referred to by the word tsuchi, earthy materials such as soil and clay are prolific in Japanese contemporary art. Highlighting works of photography, ceramics, and installation art, Bert Winther-Tamaki explores the many aesthetic manifestations of tsuchi and their connection to the country’s turbulent environmental history, investigating how Japanese artists have continually sought a passionate and redemptive engagement with earth.In the seven decades following 1955, Japan has experienced severe environmental degradation as a result of natural disasters, industrial pollution, and nuclear irradiation. Artists have responded to these ongoing catastrophes through modes of “mudlarking” and “muckracking,” utilizing raw elements from nature to establish deeper contact with the primal resources of their world and expose its unfettered contamination. Providing a comparative assessment of more than seventy works of art, this study reveals Japanese artists’ engagement with a richly diverse repertoire of earthy materialities, elucidating their aesthetic properties, changing conditions, and cultural significance. By focusing on the role of tsuchi as a convergence point for a wide range of creative practices, this book offers a critical reassessment of contemporary art in Japan and its intrinsic relationship to the environment. Situating art within the context of ecology and urbanization, Tsuchi shows artists striving to explore and reprocess raw forms of earth beneath the corruptions of human activity.Trade Review "Tsuchi is a compelling and original book that brings together new insights into the relationships between environmentalism, contemporary art, and the ‘aesthetics of Japanese earth.’ Bert Winther-Tamaki’s interweaving of historical context, close visual analysis, and rich use of Japanese sources make it an outstanding book that will make a lasting impact in the field of Japanese art history and beyond."—Namiko Kunimoto, author of The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art "Tsuchi is a superb key concept that allows us to dig deeper into a rich lode of world art history that is postwar Japan. In his thoughtful study, Bert Winther-Tamaki literally offers us a bottom-up view of what such radical practitioners as Shiraga Kazuo and Nakahira Takuma saw, felt, and experienced with this ubiquitous matter of our planet."—Reiko Tomii, independent scholar "Tsuchi provides an ingenious structure for understanding the visual culture surrounding the very ground we stand on. "—H-Net Reviews "Against the backdrop of the region’s urbanization and intensifying environmental issues, this rigorous text seeks to understand the earth itself as an artistic medium for critiquing the roots of these interconnected crises, and the fusion of ecology and art as a potential path forward."—Hyperallergic Table of ContentsIntroduction: Japanese Cultures of EarthI. The Postwar Silos of Tsuchi Media1. Ceramics: Earth Flavor in Fired Clay2. Photography: Soil Conditions in the Lens3. Avant-Garde Actions: Wrestling and Digging Earthy MaterialsII. Convergence and Proliferation since the 1980s4. The Bubble and Its Aftermath: Containment of Spillage and Blast5. Earth Diving before and after the Triple DisasterEpilogue: Tsuchi in the Contaminated World to ComeAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£26.99
Indiana University Press Medals and Plaquettes in the Ulrich Middeldorf
Book SynopsisArne R. Flaten is Associate Professor of Art History at Coastal Carolina University. He is co-founder and co-director of Ashes2Art: Digital Reconstructions of Ancient Monuments and of the Digital Jazz Manuscripts Archive. He is editor (with Charles Rosenberg) of a special issue of The Medal.
£67.50
Thames & Hudson Ltd Precious Indian Weapons and other Princely
Book SynopsisAn informative and beautifully produced guide to one of the worldâs most spectacular collections of Indian jewelled weapons.Trade Review'An accessible book of sound scholarship that serves as an excellent introduction to the topic of fine Indian arms for a non-specialist. … Precious Indian Weapons has undoubtedly raised the bar for future publications and will be an important work for years to come' - Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsForeword by Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Historical Overview • 1. The Katar; 2. The Chilanum; 3. Hourglass-Shaped Hilts; 4. Eared- or Cloven-Pommel Hilts; 5. Pistol-Grip Hilts; 6. Animal-Head Hilts; 7. Floral Hilts; 8. Deep-Sheathed Knives; 9. The Pish-Qabz; 10. Swords; 11. A Crutch Dagger, Crutches and a Staff Finial; 12. The Archery Ring; 13. A Jewelled Shield, Harness Fittings and Dagger-Cord Ornaments; 14. Insignia of Rank and Status
£36.00
Spector Books Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017
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£18.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd Precious Indian Weapons and other Princely
Book SynopsisAn informative and beautifully produced guide to one of the world's most spectacular collections of Indian jewelled weapons.Table of ContentsForeword by Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Historical Overview • 1. The Katar; 2. The Chilanum; 3. Hourglass-Shaped Hilts; 4. Earedor Cloven-Pommel Hilts; 5. Pistol-Grip Hilts; 6. Animal-Head Hilts; 7. Floral Hilts; 8. Deep-Sheathed Knives; 9. The Pish-Qabz; 10. Swords; 11. A Crutch Dagger, Crutches and a Staff Finial; 12. The Archery Ring; 13. A Jewelled Shield, Harness Fittings and Dagger-Cord Ornaments; 14. Insignia of Rank and Status
£25.46
Spector Books Tim Etchells: Let's Pretend None of This Ever
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£27.00
Valiz Seven Logics of Sculpture: Encountering Objects
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£22.50
Yale University Press Chinati
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stockebrand’s writings complement a trove of glorious new installation photographs, bibliographies for all the artists, a catalogue of the collection and several other illustrations and appendices."—Janet Stiles Tyson, Cassone
£58.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC British Tea and Coffee Cups 17451940
Book SynopsisCharts the development of tea and coffee cups, providing information on the methods of decoration, influential factories and designers. This book guides readers on how to identify the dates of particular patterns, as well as listing a number of museums and auction houses where these ornamental cups can be discovered.
£999.99
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art The Classical Body in Romantic Britain
Book SynopsisA radical, lively departure from received notions about art of the Romantic period For many, the term “neoclassicism” has come to imply discipline, order, restraint, and a certain myopia. Leaving the term behind, this book radically challenges enduring assumptions about the art produced from the late 18th century to the early Victorian period, casting new light on appropriations of the classical body by British artists. It is the first to foreground the intersections of gender, race, and class in discussions of British visual classicism, laying bare artists’ alternately politicizing and emphatically sensual engagements with Greco-Roman art. Rather than rely exclusively on subsequent scholarship, the book takes up the poet John Keats (1795–1821) as a theoretical framework. Eschewing the “Golden Age” narrative, which sees J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) as the pinnacle of the period’s artistic achievement, the book examines overlooked artists, such as Henry Howard (1769–1847) and John Graham Lough (1798–1876). The result is a fresh account of underappreciated works of British painting and sculpture.Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“Cora Gilroy-Ware mounts a refreshing, combative argument for the radical links of white marble statuary.”—Marina Warner, Times Literary Supplement 'Books of the Year'
£38.00
Amherst College Dismantling the Nation: Contemporary Art in Chile
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£34.88
Abrams Brave Birds
Book SynopsisFrom celebrated paper artist Maude White, a spectacular collection of 65 cut-paper birds paired with inspirational reflections
£18.99
Art Gallery of Ontario Sorel Etrog: Five Decades
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£22.94
Ibidem Press 14 Essays Inspired by the Sculptures of Erkin
Book SynopsisFourteen sculptures of the distinguished Central Asian artist Erkin Mergenov constitute the subject matter of this book. The creative force of the sculptor produced the artifacts, which then inspired historians, theologians, philosophers and literary scholars to produce verbal' responses and meditations on original themes. The texts, which exemplify different cross-disciplinary approaches to art and sculpture, cover the 30-year span of the artist's career from Self-Portrait (1971) to Premonition (2001).
£41.92
Edition Axel Menges Auf der Suche nach verlorenen Paradiesen
Book SynopsisThe fact that the entire history of culture and technology could represent a single, continuous expulsion of mankind from the original, paradiese state of nature was already described visionarilyin the Bible and predicted with all its positive and negative consequences. Everyone knows the story of Adam and Eve, of their 'Fall' and their 'Expulsion from Paradise'. Even as a non-Christian it is worth taking a look at the fairytale-like-mythic text of the Old Testament, although the picture and the process completely contradict our current scientific findings. One would almost be inclined to assume that the idea of a primeval paradise is innate in all human beings and that every human being with his becoming, his birth, his childhood and his adulthood experiences something like a Genesis. He is born innocent and helpless, wakes up, looks around, believes to be free, gets to know his time, his surroundings, his life. The final expulsion of every human being from life is his death. He is a sentenced to death. Despite all religious promises, man has always been aware of this fact, also of the fact that he has only this one life and that he ultimately cannot count on the hope that beyond this life there is something that could be called 'salvation', a happy return to the Garden of Eden. As the book shows with numerous, primarily European examples, the history of man is therefore full of efforts to regain here and now the lost paradise, no matter how precarious the result may be. In search of the lost paradises: a somewhat unusual history of man in his relationship to nature, followed by a description of the current state of landscape planning and garden design. In the third, concluding part of the book, the author develops new, strangely surreal and poetic concepts of the treatment of nature, inspired by literature, film, theatre and tourism.Hans Dieter Schaal, born in Ulm in 1943, is an architect, landscape architect, stage designer and exhibition designer. His works, the majority of which have been published by the Axel MengesEdition, have meanwhile reached an audience far beyond his in my homeland. The author lives and works in a village near Biberach an der Riss.
£50.92
Distanz By the Highway: Kontext
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£19.00
State Hermitage Museum Publications Netsuke: A miniature sculpture of Japan from
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£49.50
National Book Trust Soft Stone Shilpkala
Book SynopsisA detailed book on the Art carving sculptures called 'Soft Stone Shilpkala'.
£5.48
Sandeep Prakashan Sculptural Art of Andhra
Book SynopsisThe present book is the first of its kind with a complete evolution of the scuptural art of Andhra, right from the second century B.C. to the decline of the Vijayanagara empire in its true perspective. the book is adequately illustrated, to highlight the most subtle and finest aspects of Andhra Sculpture sculpture.
£25.49
Museum Tusculanum Press Triumph of Art at Thorvaldsens Museum: 'Løve' in
Book SynopsisThorvaldsens Museum opened in central Copenhagen in 1848. The great Danish sculptor had arranged to donate his own works of art and his collections to the city, provided that the museum be built for the purpose; it would become his tomb. The Museum was decorated with a colourful frieze depicting the triumphant arrival of Thorvaldsen and his magnificent works of art in Copenhagen from the artist's studio in Rome. The dramatic frieze, designed by the Danish artist Jørgen Sonne, made a big splash at the time, and has captivated visitors ever since. In this learned and lively study of the Museum and its frieze, John Henderson shows how the frieze takes inspiration from classical models, including the Parthenon and Roman monuments, in delivering the finest neoclassical art, and its cosmopolitan European culture, to the attention of a newly modernized public. This beautifully illustrated book breaks new ground in Danish History of Art, bringing an important and unique Danish work of art to an international audience with the blessing of the Museum.Trade Review"In fact, the book, at just 120 pages. would make an excellent introductory text for undergraduate students of either ancient or modern sculpture; the accounts of Thorvaldsen's sculptures in the course of their appearence in the frieze, in Chapter Two, make a good introduction to the sculptor's work, and Chapters One and Three include useful accounts of a number of important ancient sculptures that relate in some way to the imagery of the frieze. More importantly, the book presents a rich and nuanced example of reception study, a critical method that has gained ground rapidly in Classics in recent years ... Henderson's study of the Copenhagen frieze thus takes its place as one of the most thoughtful and detailed reception studies yet to appear in art history ..." - Elizabeth Prettejohn, Art History Vol. 29, Nov 2006"H.'s [John Henderson's] approach is, as ever, a playful one. ... Essentially this book allows us to visit the museum and walk around the frieze with H. as a companion, constantly pointing things out, sharing juicy titbits and making bad jokes. This proves to be enormous fun. More importantly, what we learn goes beyond this one artwork and we take away new insights into museums, triumphal parades and the way the modern world has used antiquity in the construction of national identity." - Katharine Edgar, Journal of Hellenic Studies 128, 2008Table of ContentsIntroduction; Survey of Literature; History and Characteristics of the Jesus Army; History and Characteristics of the FWBO; Social Composition of the Jesus Army and the FWBO; Attitudes and Values of Members; Altruism in the Jesus Army and the FWBO; Motivation for Altruism; Development of Altruism; Conclusions.
£32.39
Mousse Publishing Yuki Kimura: Col Sporcar Si Trova
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£21.85
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Parallel Wings: The Art of Rini Dhumal
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£38.00
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Carte Blanche À Manish Pushkale: To Whom the Bird
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£24.70
Oxford University Press Arts of Allusion Object Ornament and Architecture in Medieval Islam
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Legare Street Press The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition a Pictorial Survey of the Art of the PanamaPacific International Exposition
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Legare Street Press On the Track of Ulysses Together With an Excursion in Quest of the Socalled Venus of Melos
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