Sculpture Books
Skira Ugo Rondinone (Bilingual edition): burn shine fly
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£25.50
Skira Kazen Cecco Bonanotte Museum Multilingual edition
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£32.00
Skira Georgy Frangulyan: Off-Modern
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£32.00
Skira Editore Reza Aramesh
Book SynopsisSerubiri Moses is an author and curator, adjunct assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College, New York. Recently he curated the Greater New York exhibition at MoMA PS1 in 2021. Bjorn Stern is an art historian, independent art advisor and artists manager. He is the founder of SternArts Stjarna, a bespoke fine art service based in London.
£32.00
Skira Amin Gulgee
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£41.25
Skira Editore Jiri Georg Dokoupil
Book SynopsisReiner Opoku is a Berlin based art consultant and international art agent. He has curated numerous international art exhibitions since the early 1980s, and is representing a variety of renowned contemporary artists.
£23.80
Mondadori Electa Gianluca Pacchioni Minimal/Baroque: Life, Art,
Book SynopsisThis book is an exploration of the artistic world of Gianluca Pacchioni, from the backstage of his workshop in Milan to his incredible studio-house, as well as finished projects and open-air installations. It also touches on his inspiration, which is drawn from a mix of Italian classicism and Japanese minimalism, with a dash of French seventeenth-century decorative style. First based in Paris, where Pacchioni became a sculptor in the 1990s, and then in Milan, his hometown, his atelier constantly forges sculptures and limited-edition furniture produced for international clients. As a pioneer in the art and design world, his approach to art is experimental and innovative, and over the years he has shifted from iron to stainless steel, and his most recent works have been made with cast bronze and semiprecious stones and marble.
£52.50
Rizzoli Electa The Torlonia Marbles: Collecting Masterpieces
Book SynopsisLast published in a nineteenth-century catalogue, the distinguished Torlonia Collection of more than 600 priceless Greek and Roman works marbles and bronzes, reliefs and sarcophagi, depictions of gods, and portraits of emperors is one of the most important assemblages of classical sculptures still in private hands anywhere in the world. This eagerly awaited volume presents a selection of nearly 100 sculptures, which have been chosen for their quality and historic significance and which will be featured in an unprecedented exhibition designed by David Chipperfield and held in the Villa Caffarelli, near the Musei Capitolini in Rome, before touring globally. The legendary aura surrounding this, Rome s last princely collection, is due not only to its extraordinary scope and the high quality of the works, but also to the fact that the collection has not been available to the public for decades. This revelatory book features multiple essays by leading experts on the history of the collection and scholarly entries for the works detailing important discoveries made through archaeological research as well as the cleaning and conservation of the sculptures.Trade Review"Inaccessibility fueled its mystique, and the Torlonia Collection became the stuff of legend. After decades of negotiations and false starts, the public will be able to decide whether reality lives up to the myth when 96 statues go on display at the Palazzo Caffarelli, part of the Capitoline Museums here, in March. The exhibition, “The Torlonia Marbles. Collecting Masterpieces,” will be open for a nine-month stint, a prelude to a grand tour." — NEW YORK TIMES "The Torlonia Collection is one of the most important collections of classical sculpture still in private hands. Only a few people have ever glimpsed the 620 works in storage." —ARTNET.COM
£27.20
MER Paper Kunsthalle Luciano Fabro: from Contratto Sociale to Colonna
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£23.28
MER Paper Kunsthalle No Obstactle, No Image
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£37.05
MER Paper Kunsthalle Gni_ri_2014
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£60.30
MER Paper Kunsthalle The Futility of Good Intentions: Que Le Importa
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£33.25
MER Paper Kunsthalle Walden & Other Suspicions
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£37.52
MER Paper Kunsthalle Vibrations off
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£19.00
MER Paper Kunsthalle Night of the World
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£19.00
Oxford University Press Corpus of AngloSaxon Stone Sculpture Volume VI Northern Yorkshire
Book SynopsisThe rich and diverse visual heritage of Northern Yorkshire in the pre-Conquest period is revealed in this major addition to the much-admired Corpus series. This volume surveys the sculpture in the historic North Riding of Yorkshire (excluding those parts already covered in Volume III). The total of some 400 carvings include important pre-Viking Age monuments, such as the crosses at Croft, Easby and Masham. The excavated sculpture from Whitby Abbey include a range of inscriptions which form crucial epigraphical evidence for our understanding of the pre-Conquest monastery. But Anglo-Scandinavian monuments predominate, with major collections at Brompton, Kirklevington and Lythe. A number of workshops have been identified and it was in this area that the hogback recumbent memorial first appeared. Much of the Anglian sculpture has stylistic connections with western Yorkshire and Mercia, and the wider connections with Europe are manifest in the iconography and styles of the great crosses at Trade ReviewThere is much to be appreciated in this volume. The summary of earlier research relating to the area is both informed and informative ... The evident care and determination with which distinguished scholars have brought this volume through to publication is due testimony to the great respect in which James Lang's memory is held. Yet this book is more than just a tribute. Alongside the sculptures themselves, it is a monumental collection of scholarship that future generations can continue to study and learn from, with growing respect for those who went before them whose hands produced it. * Archaeological Journal *... forms a fine memorial to Lang's life work as a teacher and scholar ... Northern Yorkshire is not only work well completed, but work which will continue to influence understanding of the rich corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture. * Journal of Ecclesiastical History *... a work of immense value ... continue[s] the high standards already set by the British Academy Corpus. * Northern History *Like its predecessors this volume provides a firm foundation for numerous research projects. * YAJ (Journal of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society) *... produced to the usual high standards set by this series with a superb set of photographs and authoritative catalogue entries covering the discovery of the stones, description of the sculpture and its geology, with a discussion and bibliography for each stone. There are also introductory essays on the regional geology by John Senior and the inscriptions by John Higgitt. * YAJ (Journal of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society) *This tremendous addition to the British Academy's Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture is a fitting tribute to James Lang. * YAJ (Journal of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society) *
£137.75
Oxford University Press Corpus of AngloSaxon Stone Sculpture Volume IX
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a full analytical catalogue of all known pre-Norman sculpture from this region. As little documentary evidence survives from the area, the sculpture is vital to understanding the early development of the Church, the shifting relationships between communities, and the ways in which political affiliations gave access to a variety of cultural centers across England, Ireland, mainland Europe and Scandinavia. Among the significant carvings are the crosses at Sandbach with their elaborate figural sculpture and the delicate carvings from Halton and Hornby in the Lune valley. Much of the work is of the 10th- and 11th-century Viking period, and shows an intriguing mixture of Scandinavian-derived motifs alongside Christian iconography.Introductory chapters set the material within its historical, topographical and art-historical context.Trade ReviewThis is an impeccably researched and produced volume which makes an important contribution to our understanding of the ecclesiastical and socio-economic history of the north-west. * Grenville Astill, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *a gold mine of information and analysis... Bailey's volume is an erudite, essential reference work, and successful because it inspires more questions and research directions about the material. * Meggen M. Gondek, English Historical Review *this volume offers a very welcome addition to the CASSS series and early medieval stone sculpture studies as a whole ... the volume will encourage greater scholarly debate about the region's sculpture. The quality of the descriptive information and accompanying photographs ensures the assemblage is wholly accessible for the first time and Bailey's meticulous biographical research will enable those of us who wish to set monuments within their landscape context, the opportunity to do so on a regional and national scale. * Joanne Kirton, Early Medieval Europe *
£85.50
Oxford University Press Corpus of AngloSaxon Stone Sculpture XII Nottinghamshire
Book SynopsisCarved and decorated stone-work is a rare survival from the period before the Norman Conquest. In Nottinghamshire it survives as large crosses and as small fragments - to be found in churches, in public spaces and in museum collections. This is the first book to provide an authoritative listing, description and illustration of all examples of this type of decorated stone sculpture in Nottinghamshire. Each example is illustrated in a substantial catalogue containing high quality photographs, maps and interpretative drawings. In the introductory chapters the authors explore the geological and historical background of the sculptures and provide an overview of the types of style and ornament.The new information revealed by the systematic study of these major survivals of Anglo-Saxon art and archaeology demonstrates the major contribution that this category of material can make to an obscure and under-investigated period in Midlands history. Nottinghamshire emerges with a distinctive identiTrade Reviewthis volume maintains all that is excellent about previous CASSS volumes, while demonstrating that, despite a formulaic methodology, new approaches and, consequently, new insights can be generated within the current scope of this long- running project. * Joanne Kirton, Medieval Archaeology *Table of ContentsChristopher F. Higgins: Foreword 1: Earlier Research 2: Regional Geology 3: Historical Background to the Sculpture 4: Style and Ornament 5: Introduction to the Monument Groupings 6: Architectural Sculpture 7: Conclusions - Sculpture and History 8: Overlap and the Continuing Tradition Catalogue: Nottinghamshire
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Aspects
Book SynopsisStretching lengths of yarn across interior spaces, American artist Fred Sandback (1943 2003) created expansive works that underscore the physical presence of the viewer. This book, the first major study of Sandback, explores the full range of his art, which not only disrupts traditional conceptions of material presence, but also stages an ethics of interaction between object and observer. Drawing on Sandback's substantial archive, Edward A. Vazquez demonstrates that the artist's work with all its physical slightness and attentiveness to place, as well as its relationship to minimal and conceptual art of the 1960s creates a link between viewers and space that is best understood as sculptural even as it almost surpasses physical form. At the same time, the economy of Sandback's site-determined practice draws viewers' focus to their connection to space and others sharing it. As Vazquez shows, Sandback's art aims for nothing less than a total recalibration of the senses, as the spectator is caught on neither one side nor the other of an object or space, but powerfully within it.
£41.80
The University of Chicago Press The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek
Book SynopsisIn the fifth century BCE, an artistic revolution occurred in Greece, as sculptors developed the ways of representing bodies, movement, and space. This title tells the story of Greek sculpture. It provides the ways to understand classical sculpture in Greek terms, and analyzes the relationship between political and stylistic histories.Trade Review"This is a big and ambitious volume, beautifully written by one of the leading new voices in the field of Greek visual art. From its rich and challenging introduction on the theory of interpretation to its brilliant reading of the Tyrranicides, this work is unlike any other in its field." - James I. Porter, University of California, Irvine"
£76.00
Pennsylvania State University Press Iconoclasm in New York Revolution to Reenactment
Book SynopsisExplores iconoclasm in American art history, focusing on the destruction of the statue of King George III in New York City in 1776. Argues that the destruction of art and objects has propelled the formation of an American creation story.Trade Review“A triumphant endorsement of the power of objects to act upon the human imagination.”—Caroline Culp Panorama“A timely study, given recent interest in removing Confederate statuary, this interdisciplinary volume will resonate with readers interested in history as well as those studying public monuments and memory. Highly recommended.”—J. Decker Choice“Bellion investigates many other pockets of American culture in her exploration of iconoclasm and its fractured meanings. The extent of her research is breathtaking, and her agile wit and engaging style keep the reader striding through the text. Somehow her command of theoretical work from a variety of disciplines manages to burnish rather than deaden the text. Eleven color plates and fifty-one black and white illustrations also give the reader plenty of visual material to ponder.”—Benjamin L. Carp The Gotham Center for New York City History“Vivid and visceral, Iconoclasm in New York weaves a brilliant tapestry of meanings from a moment of ritual violence in 1776 New York. Untangling the paradox of the always-toppling, never-quite-vanquished King George III, Wendy Bellion plumbs a central mystery of American culture. To see the destructive creation of the United States through Bellion’s keen eyes is to witness the American Revolution transformed.”—Jane Kamensky,author of A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley“Wendy Bellion has one of the most powerful interpretive voices helping us see what the early United States imagined of itself and for itself. In her new book on the power of destructive acts, she looks closely at the art of destruction, showing us how King George III fell and rose (along with other emblems of monarchy and Great Britain) in a pattern that continues to this day. I’m looking forward to regularly reading, teaching, and thinking through Iconoclasm in New York.”—Karin Wulf,author of Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia“Bellion’s provocative and timely study weaves together the geographic, environmental, political, and sensory landscapes of New York City to create a highly original contribution to scholarship on the American Revolution and its memorialization.”—Matthew Dziennik The William and Mary Quarterly“Meticulously researched and vividly written, Iconoclasm in New York provides a model for the field, demonstrating that the practice of art history can be at once expansive in scope and highly specific in its claims.”—Catherine Roach Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide“Iconoclasm in New York will be indispensable to interdisciplinary scholarship on the episode and illuminating to work on American iconoclasm and commemoration. The abundant archival research is inestimable; the book is brimming with exciting discoveries and new features of what once seemed a familiar story. This deep history solidifies the pivotal role of iconoclasm in a myth of American origins.”—Michelle Sizemore Early American Literature“Bellion’s book helps me to contextualize and understand at least two forms of iconoclasm that we are experiencing today, both nationally and on a global scale: one that rejects monuments to white supremacy and imperialism and another that defends those monuments and would see anything that threatens them toppled in their stead.”—Kirsten Pai Buick Winterthur Portfolio
£26.96
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Hellenistic Sculpture II The Styles of ca. 200100 B.C.
Book SynopsisScrutinizes most of the best-known pieces of Greek sculpture to determine what can be securely considered to have been produced during 200-100 BC. This book reveals a tentative but plausible picture of the artistic trends of this fascinating period.Trade ReviewWithout doubt the most influential scholar of Greek sculpture of the last thirty years. - Mark Fullerton, author of The Archaistic Style in Roman Statuary
£24.95
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Iconography of Sculptured Statue Bases in the
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive collection of material on sculptured statue bases which should be of interest to archaeologists, historians of art and of religion, and scholars of ancient culture (including athletics and gender studies).Trade ReviewThis comprehensive material on sculptured statue bases has never been gathered and presented before in any language, so Kosmopoulou's work is of great importance for archaeologists, historians of art and of religion, and scholars of ancient culture (including athletics and gender studies). - Brunilde S. Ridgway, Bryn Mawr College, author of Hellenistic Sculpture, volumes 1-3
£37.76
Yale University Press The Sculptures of the Parthenon Aesthetics
Book SynopsisAn overview of the sculptures of the Parthenon, presenting interpretations of the ancient temple's sculptural creation. It focuses on the meanings of the sculptures in the light of classical Athenian knowledge and society, and considers what they reveal about the Greek sense of democracy.
£52.25
Yale University Press Body Doubles
Book SynopsisLate nineteenth-century Britain experienced an explosion of interest in sculpture. Sculptors of the New Sculpture movement sought a new direction and a modern idiom for their art. This book analyzes for the first time the art-theoretical concerns of the late-Victorian sculptors, focusing on their attitudes toward representation of the human body. David J. Getsy uncovers a previously unrecognized sophistication in the New Sculpture through close study of works by key figures in the movement: Frederic Leighton, Alfred Gilbert, Hamo Thornycroft, Edward Onslow Ford, and James Havard Thomas. These artists sought to activate and animate the conventional format of the ideal statue so that it would convincingly stand in for both a living body and an ideal image. Getsy demonstrates the conceptual complexity of the New Sculptors and places their concerns within the larger framework of modern sculpture. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
£38.00
Yale University Press Socrates Sculpture Park
Book SynopsisSocrates Sculpture Park is one of the most acclaimed public art spaces in the country. This book presents the history, spirit, and nature of this collaborative enterprise through photographs and essays that reveal the beauty, energy, and import of this successful public art space.
£30.00
Yale University Press The Silent Rhetoric of the Body
Book SynopsisLooks at a neglected corner of eighteenth-century art - the funeral monument. This book demonstrates that tombs and inscriptions are of manifest worth to the student of eighteenth-century English value systems, providing as they do an archaeology of ideal types.
£52.25
Yale University Press Rethinking Recarving Ideals Practices and
Book SynopsisA collection of essay, which reexamine the Wu Family Shrines pictorial carvings from Han dynasty China, helping readers understand the long cultural history behind them. It addresses the ideals, practices, and problems of the Wu Family Shrines and Han China; and Han funerary art and architecture in Shandong and other regions.
£45.00
Yale University Press A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain
Book SynopsisA dictionary that provides information on the work of over 3,000 sculptors working in Britain between 1660 and 1851.
£72.00
Yale University Press Juan Mu241oz at the Clark
Book SynopsisThe celebrated Spanish sculptor Juan Munoz (1953-2001) died at the height of his powers, when he was considered 'one of the most complex artists. This title includes 30 photographs, documents a group of Munoz installations at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
£11.77
Yale University Press Caro Close Up Yale Center for British Art Icons
Book SynopsisWith a career spanning more than sixty years, Anthony Caro (b 1924) is one of Britain's most acclaimed and best-known sculptors. This book accompanies the first survey exhibition of his work in an American museum since his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 1975.Trade Review“The artist who famously brought sculpture off the pedestal here appears fresh again . . . [with] arresting images of rarely-seen work.”—Publishers Weekly * Publishers Weekly *
£52.25
Yale University Press Kosta Alex
Book SynopsisThe Greek-American artist Kosta Alex (1925-2005) initially trained in figure sculpture in Manhattan. In 1947 he moved to Paris, where he mingled with and exhibited alongside the avant-garde artists of his day. This is a monograph on this intriguing artist.
£38.00
Yale University Press The American West in Bronze 18501925
Book SynopsisFeatures sixty-five iconic bronzes that display a range of subjects, from portrayals of the noble Indian to rough-and-tumble scenes of rowdy cowboys to tributes to the pioneers who settled the lands west of the Mississippi.Trade Review"Must-have book for lovers of bronze sculpture and Western Art."—Maine Antique Digest -- M.A.D Staff * Main Antique Digest *
£42.75
Yale University Press Warm Flesh Cold Marble
Book SynopsisFocusing on the aesthetic concerns of the two most important sculptors of the early 19th century, the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) and his Danish rival Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), this book considers: the aesthetic autonomy of works of art, the gender of the subject, and the efficacy of marble as an imitative medium.
£40.38
Yale University Press The Marble Index
Book SynopsisExploring the relationship with painted portraits, conventions, settings, sitting, making and multiple production, this book argues that the new centrality and aesthetic ambition of the sculptural portrait were informed by Enlightenment notions of perception and selfhood.Trade Review“This book is beautifully laid out with superb photographs and details of sculpture illustrated, while the dense text provides a penetrating analysis of the subject… This ground-breaking compendium of observation and research accrued through years of experience, curating and teaching demands attentive reading.”—Tessa Murdoch, Burlington Magazine -- Tessa Murdoch * Burlington Magazine *
£47.50
Yale University Press Cast for Eternity Ancient Ritual Bronzes from the
Book SynopsisShowcasing more than thirty ancient bronzes from the exceptional holdings of the Shanghai Museum, this illustrated book offers a compelling overview of the beauty of Chinese bronzes and the traditions surrounding them. It also features an essay that serves as an introduction to these masterpieces.
£28.50
Yale University Press Sculpture Victorious
Book SynopsisHighlights the diversity, originality and ubiquity of sculptural production during the reign of Queen Victoria. This illustrated book examines how colourful marbles, bronzes, finely wrought silver, and exquisitely detailed electrotypes, as well as gems, cameos and porcelain, related to and contributed to the contemporary world.Trade Review‘Three cheers for the Yale Center for British Art and Tate Britain for collaborating on the exhibition “Sculpture Victorious” at Tate Britain… The show, accompanied by a scholarly catalogue of the same title, will also explains the evolution of the new technologies, styles, materials and ideas of the late British Empire.’—D. I , Art Newspaper. -- D.I. * Art Newspaper *“As sumptuous as its subject . . . illustrated by magnificent photography . . . essays by a distinguished group of scholars address every aspect of this fascinating art form . . . this book encompasses the subject in all its majesty.”—Barrymore Laurence Scherer, Magazine Antiques -- Barrymore Laurence Scherer * Magazine Antiques *
£52.25
Yale University Press Baule Monkeys
Book SynopsisThe Baule people of the Ivory Coast are renowned for their refined sculptural work of masks and figures. This book is the first to focus exclusively on an antithetic aspect of Baule culturerough zoomorphic sculptures representing monkeys. These awe-inspiring bowl-bearing figures evoke invisible powers and serve their communities through the mediation of diviners. Investigating the creation, forms, and usage of the sculptures, the authors shed light on the cultural and ritual contexts in which they operated. Beautifully illustrated with over 55 full-page color images of works in public and private collections, this important publication also includes many unpublished field photographs. Distributed for Mercatorfonds
£47.50
Yale University Press Walter Leblanc
Book SynopsisLittle is known about Walter Leblanc (19321986), one of the key representatives of kinetic and optical art in the mid-20th century. This comprehensive monograph, the first on this artist for an international audience, includes unpublished materials, which provide insight not only into the art of LeBlanc, but also into the ZERO artist movement to which he was connected and with which he was in close dialogue beginning in the 1950s.Walter Leblanc is based on extensive studies of the artist's work: with about 150 images of his paintings and sculptures, comparative works, historical photos and documents, it includes a selection of Leblanc's writings, an iconographic mapping of selected works in museums around the world, and a bio-bibliographical appendix. Demonstrating the wealth of his creative output, the book reaffirms the enduring role Leblanc played in the development of modern and contemporary art on a global scale. Distributed for Mercatorfonds
£38.00
Yale University Press A New American Sculpture 19141945
Book SynopsisA New American Sculpture, 19141945 is the first publication to situate the individual contributions of Gaston Lachaise, Robert Laurent, Elie Nadelman, and William Zorach into a compelling constellation of artists with shared aesthetic and social concerns. Although each European-born, American artist cultivated his own distinct style, their creative priorities were all deeply rooted in quiet composition, synthetic approaches to anatomy, and architectural unity of curves and volume. At a time when abstract forms were popular, Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach were all ultimately in favor of maintaining the integrity of the human body to explore modernist styles. This handsome book underscores their unrelenting search for a novel American visual tradition at the intersection of modernism, historic visual culture, and contemporary popular imagery.Distributed for the Portland Museum of ArtExhibition Schedule:Portland Museum of Art (05/26/1709/08/17)Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee (10/14/1701/07/18)Amon Carter Museum of American Art (02/17/1805/13/18)
£33.25
Yale University Press Donald Judd
Book SynopsisAn authoritative look at the art, life, and legacy of a revered artist
£38.00
Yale University Press Sculptural Seeing
Book SynopsisAlthough perspective has long been considered one of the essential developments of Renaissance painting, this provocative new book shifts the usual narrative back centuries, showing that medieval sculptors were already employing knowledge of optical science, geometry, and theories of vision in shaping the beholder's experience of their work. Meticulous visual analysis is paired with close readings of medieval texts in examining a series of important relief sculptures from northern and central Italy dating from the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries, including the impressive sculptural programs at the cathedrals of Modena and Ferrara, and the pulpits by Giovanni and Nicola Pisano at Pisa and Pistoia. Demonstrating that medieval sculptors orchestrated the reception of their intended religious and political messages through the careful manipulation of points of view and architectural space, Christopher R. Lakey argues that medieval practice was well informed by visual theory and that the concepts that led to the codification of linear perspective by Renaissance painters had in fact been in use by sculptors for hundreds of years.Trade Review“Lakey pores over medieval sculpture at Modena and Ferrara cathedrals, plus pulpits at Pisa and Pistoia by father and son Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, to explode the established theory that Renaissance painters 'invented' linear perspective.”—Apollo“An erudite study…. The author’s larger argument concerning the origins of perspective may not convince all readers but should fuel productive reflection and discussion about medieval sculpture and its place in the narratives of art history.”—Peter Scott Brown, caa.reviewsFinalist for the 2020 ICMA Book Award"Sculptural Seeing rewards the reader with marvelous new and original insights. It will have a significant impact on the fields of art history and medieval studies and beyond."—Beate Fricke, author of Fallen Idols, Risen Saints“Sculptural Seeing is an original and provocative study of the visual experience of medieval sculptural art.”—Suzanne Akbari, author of Seeing Through the Veil
£54.62
John Wiley & Sons Inc Ice Carving Made Easy 2e
Book Synopsis"With this new edition of Ice Carving Made Easy, Second Edition, Joe Amendola shares with all present and future ice carvers the resurgence of this historic art form. This book will guide and inspire thousands of chefs and artists to enjoy the artistic fulfillment, professionalism, and camaraderie of the exciting art of ice carving.Table of ContentsThe History of Ice Carving. Opportunities for Ice Carvers. Tools and Accessories. Types of Ice. Styrofoam Carvings. Starting to Carve. Setting Up Your Carvings. Special Circumstances. Design Patterns. Specific Projects. Ice-Carving Associations and Manufacturers.
£71.20
University of California Press Mark di Suvero
Book SynopsisA book on American sculptor Mark di Suvero that features more than two hundred images of his important works interspersed with short texts by the artist and by other writers who have inspired his art-making practice. It describes his artistic oeuvre and of his long, distinguished career.Trade Review"Shows the daring, greatness, and individuality of di Suvero's monumental work alongside the passions, poetry, and deep thoughts that drive him." -- Jan Garden Castro Sculpture Magazine "What makes Dreambook special is that it's so much more than it might have been." January Magazine "di Suvero is in a class of his own." American Style
£45.05
University of California Press Matter and Spirit Stephen De Staebler
Book SynopsisOver the course of his career, Stephen De Staebler (1933-2011) created powerful, elegiac figurative sculptures in clay and bronze. This title provides a biographical portrait of the sculptor, and renowned art historian.
£27.90
University of California Press David Smith in Two Dimensions
Book SynopsisHow does photography shape the way we see sculpture? In this book, the author broaches this question through an in-depth consideration of the photography of American sculptor David Smith (1906 1965).Trade Review"Does more than reveal the important role photography played in Smith's art; it fundamentally alters how we see the works he photographed." Bookforum "...thorough research and exceedingly compelling and rigorously formal readings of individual works." -- Christa Noel Robbins Oxford Art JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Problem of Photography and Sculpture 1. Toward Mass Reproduction as a Public Display 2. Aerial Vision, Photographic Abstraction, and the Surface of Sculpture 3. Images of Nonbelonging: Dramatizing Autonomy in the Sculptural Group 4. Picturing Color in Space 5. The Terrain of the Vulgar: Smith's 1963--64 Nudes Conclusion: Framed and Unframed Space Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£37.80
University of California Press Isamu Noguchis Modernism
Book SynopsisExploring the complex interweaving of race, national identity, and the practice of sculpture, Amy Lyford takes us through a close examination of the early US career of the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988). The years between 1930 and 1950 were perhaps some of the most fertile of Noguchi's career. Yet the work that he produced during this time has received little sustained attention. Weaving together new archival material, little-known or unrealized works, and those that are familiar, Lyford offers a fresh perspective on the significance of Noguchi's modernist sculpture to twentieth-century culture and art history. Through an examination of his work, this book tells a story about his relation to the most important cultural and political issues of his time. By focusing on Noguchi's reputation, and reception as an artist of Japanese American descent, Lyford analyzes the artist and his work within the context of a burgeoning desire at that time to define what modern AmerTrade Review“Written in animated and lucid prose, this book is that of a seasoned scholar whose intervention in Noguchi criticism performs the tremendous work of critiquing and making socially relevant inroads in the field of art history.” * Society for US Intellectual History *“Written in animated and lucid prose, this book is that of a seasoned scholar whose intervention in Noguchi criticism performs the tremendous work of critiquing and making socially relevant inroads in the field of art history.” * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Labor 1. Earthworks, the Depression Economy, and Monument to the Plow 2. Modernism, Public Art, and Sculpture as Social Practice in the 1930s 3. Reinventing Labor in New York Part 2. Race 4. Negotiating Japanese American Confinement 5. Reimagining Humanity in the 1940s 6. Noguchi, Asian America, and Artistic Identity in Postwar New York Postscript: Beginnings and Ends at the Venice Biennale Appendix A. Noguchi’s “A Plan for Government Sponsored Farm and Craft Settlement for People of Japanese Parentage” Appendix B. Noguchi’s “I Become a Nisei” Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£27.00
University of California Press Remaking Race and History
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Recommended.” * CHOICE *“Remaking Race and History is an important sourcebook on this otherwise under-recognized artist. . . . Provides an indication of the insights that such future investigations can yield.” * caa.reviews *“Impressive and important. . . . The socio-historical details and contexts of Fuller’s life and art given throughout the book are well-researched and coherently presented. . . . Ater makes a noteworthy contribution to African American art history.” * Association of Historians of American Art *"An exemplar of a more integrated art history. [Ater] is especially gifted with comparative stylistic and iconographic analysis of period sculpture." * Art Bulletin *“Remaking Race and History: The Sculpture of Meta Warrick Fuller goes a long way in correcting the glaring omission of one of the key African American woman artists of the twentieth century.” * Tikkun *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. “Foremost Sculptor of the Negro Race” 2. Segregation and Inclusion 3. Memory and Commemoration 4. Race and Americanization Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
£27.00
