Sculpture Books

Book SynopsisThis publication provides a comprehensive overview of Ulrich Vogl’s current artistic practice. The starting point of his work is his fascination with everyday objects and places, their stories and moods. In his works, Vogl either integrates them unchanged, reshapes them, or leaves them only as references. Some of Vogl’s pieces are movable, some work with shadows, sound and projections, often they are cinematic or time-based, low-tech, revealing their mode of production. They are always part of a playful, experimental, and conceptual process, at the end of which is a work reduced to its essentials. The book presents a large amount of what Vogl calls “cognitive catalysts.”

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Book SynopsisFew artists are able to work successfully on both large and small scales, but throughout his career Calder brilliantly moved from the miniature to the monumental and back again. This publication focuses on the enormous stabiles he created mostly for public places, as well as his elegant hanging mobiles in sheet metal, miniature standing mobiles, and chess sets, shedding light on the social and performative aspects of his work. Essays explore how Calder approached the effects of kinetics and space, solidity and transparency, stasis and activity, volume and void. The book also looks at how Calder’s small-scale sculptures echoed the public spectacle of his larger pieces, creating a “private drama” that encouraged direct participation. Whatever the size, Calder’s works employed movement and interaction in unpredictable ways, and this enlightening book helps readers appreciate the important continuity of his oeuvre.

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Book SynopsisJeremy Strick, Director of the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, USA. Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Artistic Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator at Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York, NY, USA. Clare Lilley, Program Director at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, United Kingdom. Sarah Coulson, Senior Curator at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, United Kingdom. Joseph Becherer, Director and Curator, Raclin Murphy Museum, Indiana, USA. Marcello Dantas, Curator and Artistic Director. Víctor García de Gomar, Artistic Director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Spain.

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Book SynopsisAn innovative analysis of 1960s abstract sculpture that draws on transgender studies and queer theoryTrade Review“Abstract Bodies is an extraordinarily imaginative book. It makes unexpected yet absolutely compelling links between artworks and transgender logics or ways of thinking that are easily overlooked or misperceived from traditional disciplinary approaches.”—Ramzi Fawaz, Transgender Studies Quarterly“David Getsy is a key voice among a new generation of art historians.”—Art in America“Highly recommended.”—Choice“In bringing to light a grossly neglected approach to the topic and action of gendering in art production and interpretation, Getsy’s book demonstrates that we are still processing the profound event that was 1960s abstraction, still reconciling ourselves to its categorical refusals, semiotic disruptions, and relational revisions.”—Art Journal “Getsy produces a daring and fascinating project” —Jenni Sorkin, Oxford Art Journal“This meticulously researched book, combining expert archival research, close analysis of less-researched artworks by canonical figures of American abstract sculpture in the 1960s, and a deliberate interdisciplinary analysis, catapults art-historical research [and] engages the rapidly growing scholarship on transgender studies into the twenty-first century.”—Natasha Adamou, Sculpture Journal“The contribution made by this book to both art history and to gender studies is incontrovertible.”—Gender ResearchRecommended by Elmgreen & Dragset as their pick for 2021 “The Best Art Books to Dive into This Summer—As Recommended by Artists” in the Art Newspaper“Abstract Bodies makes a remarkable intervention into art history, combining a rigorous attention to the history of sculpture with surprising and elaborate readings of the art of the 1960s. As a result of his disciplined attention to abstract forms rather than figural representations of the body, David Getsy has opened a new chapter in art history. This is a brilliant and original book and will change the way we think about the dynamics between art, embodiment, plasticity, and queer form.”—Jack Halberstam, University of Southern California“David Getsy’s Abstract Bodies represents a welcome convergence of the long established academic discipline of art history with the more recent interdisciplinary field of transgender studies. This book is not a history of transgender artists or transgender themes in art, but rather a path-breaking application of transgender studies as a heuristic lens. His deft coupling of subject matter and critical framework enables readers to grasp the profound extent to which the plasticity of shape and transformation of substance in reference to human being is a central feature of recent Western history.”—Susan Stryker, University of Arizona“Abstract Bodies more than bridges art history and gender studies—David Getsy demonstrates that these fields need each other. This book shows us how to see gender’s capacities in texture, light and form—loosened from the discourse of sex, gender becomes a material possibility. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how to write about sculpture, or who wants to know how queer art history can be.”—Jennifer Doyle, University of California at Riverside“The insights that emerge from David Getsy’s analyses of sculpture, reception, anecdote, historiography, and of the particular languages – and voices – of artists, are provocative and profound. In the process of locating transformational energies in these artists’ works, Getsy not only connects us more intimately to each artist but also redirects the field of postwar abstract sculpture.”—Michael Brenson, Bard College

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Book SynopsisRevel in the power of human creativity with this completely revised and expanded edition of Burning Man: Art on Fire, illustrated with over 250 gorgeous color photos. *Winner of the 2023 Gold Foreword INDIE Book Award*For one week a year, a remote desert lakebed in Nevada becomes Black Rock City, the home of Burning Man, where 80,000 participants create a temporary community devoted to expression and play. There is no money, no running water—and there are no constraints. Artists bring enormous sculptures for participants to climb. Outrageous Mutant Vehicles glide through an opulent mirage. This is a dreamscape of permission. For seven days and nights, the artistic movement of our time materializes—and then disappears without a trace. Welcome to Burning Man. Welcome Home. This authorized collection also includes: Over 150 new photographs and descriptions of individual pieces ofTrade Review"A brilliantly visual and impressively informative homage to an annual ephemeral event is unreservedly recommended to the attention of Burners, artists, creative thinkers, and anyone who has ever imagined a visit to Burning Man -- one of the most extraordinary places on earth." * Midwest Book Review *"Fascinating, joyful, and awe-inspiring. Raiser’s text provides insight into the planning and detail that go into maintaining Burning Man’s integrity and safety while celebrating its spirit of creativity and participation." * Library Journal *Table of ContentsForeword Preface Introduction: Art on Fire: Seven Days Ablaze Ten Principles of Burning Man Art to Amaze Mutant Craze Everyone Plays Silicon Rays Art to Praise Art Ablaze Epilogue: Art on Fire An Artist’s Perspective: Disorient in the Desert AFTERWORD: #ThanksLarry About the Authors About the Contributors Acknowledgments Index Photography Credits

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Book SynopsisLays out an easy-to-follow step-by-step method of blocking out the plane structure and anatomy of the posed figure. The author's approach utilises a geometric system consisting of blocks, simple shapes and guidelines, which instructs students in a new and instinctive sculptural style.

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Book SynopsisArguably the greatest sculptor of all time, Donatello (c.1386-1466) was at the vanguard of a revolution in sculptural practice in the early Renaissance. Combining ideas from classical and medieval sculpture to create innovative sculptural forms, Donatello had an unparalleled ability to portray emotions in works intended to inspire spiritual devotion. Pieces such as the penitent St Mary Magdalene and the bronze of David remain deeply affecting to audiences today. Working in marble, bronze, wood, terracotta and stucco, he contributed to major commissions of church and state; was an intimate of the Medici family and their circle in Florence, and highly sought after in other Italian cities. This book, specially commissioned to accompany the 2023 exhibition at the V&A, explores Donatello's extraordinary creativity within the vibrant artistic and cultural context of fifteenth-century Italy, surveying his early connection with goldsmiths' work and the collaborative nature of his workshop and processes. It also reflects on Donatello's legacy, reviewing how his sculpture inspired subsequent generations in the later Renaissance and beyond.Trade Review'sumptuous', Angelina Villa-Clarke, 25th January 2023, Forbes.comTable of ContentsIntroduction, Peta Motture -- Donatello's Origins: Sculpture and Goldsmithing, Amy R. Bloch -- Making and Viewing: Encountering Donatello's Sculpture, Alison Wright -- Devotion and Emotion in the Art of Donatello, Timothy Verdon -- Donatello: Past to Present, Marc Bormand -- The Many Faces of Patronage, John T. Paoletti -- Imitators, Copyists, Forgers: Emulating Donatello in the Nineteenth Century, Whitney Kerr-Lewis -- CATALOGUE -- Florentine Foundations -- Tradition and Innovation -- Bronzes: Sacred and Secular -- Padua and Northern Italy -- Devotion and Emotion -- Homage to Donatello -- Timeline -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Picture Credits -- Acknowledgements -- Index

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Book SynopsisBeautiful catalogue for the Holburne’s retrospective of Henry Moore’s small-scale sculptures in stone, wood, terracotta, plaster, lead, plasticine and bronze, including works previously unpublished and unexhibited.This is a beautifully produced catalog accompanying the Holburne Museum’s groundbreaking retrospective of Henry Moore’s sculptures that could fit in the hand. At the heart of Moore’s practice was the directness of working on a small scale, whether carving small stones or pieces of wood, casting lead, modeling in clay or, in later years, modeling in plasticine around a found stone or bone to be cast in bronze. The exhibition will include sculptures in stone, wood, terracotta, plaster, lead, plasticine and bronze, and span themes recurrent in his work: the reclining female figure, the mother and child, the human head, and the fallen warrior. It will include maquettes for some of his best-known, public sculptures alongside lesser-known works, including the display for the very first time in a museum exhibition of a recently discovered early lead cast of Mother & Child. The catalog presents 85 illustrations with an introduction by Chris Stephens.

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Book SynopsisBernini and His World is a unique exploration of Gian Lorenzo Bernini the sculptor, offering new insights and including discussions of the artist’s stylistic innovations and the ways in which he approached sculpture. Placing his life and work within a social, anthropological and historical context, Livio Pestilli gives a fascinating and in-depth account, from the Rome in which Bernini lived and its reception of foreign sculptors to the myth-making narrative of his biographers, and the judgements of his critics.Beautifully illustrated and engagingly written, this book draws on a deep familiarity with both historic and modern Italian culture to give readers a vivid account of sculpture and sculptors in early modern Rome, and of Bernini’s lasting legacy.Trade Review'Pestilli’s innovative approach offers exciting new perspectives on the artist, and makes you look afresh at the man, his work and his world.' – The Art Newspaper 'documents Bernini's legacy to other artists with a staggering array of color photographs...vast visual encyclopedia of Baroque sculpture in Rome...the real value of the book is its magical mystery tour through the mind and art of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Rome’s very own Vesuvius' – New York Review of Books'Pestilli and his publisher deserve high praise for having assembled the most beautiful collection of colour images of Roman baroque sculpture between two covers.' – Bruce Boucher, TLS'Livio Pestilli approaches the artist not chronologically but kaleidoscopically, as he puts it, posing unexpected questions that allow him to probe the career and the major works in eye-opening ways.' – The Burlington Magazine'In this fascinating book, Pestilli (Trinity College, Rome) provides thought-provoking insights into the life and art of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680). Pestilli extends discussion of the artist into new territory fitting for the present environment. With its excellent illustrations and solid scholarly apparatus, this is a valuable book for academic audiences. Highly recommended.' – A. V. Coonin, Rhodes College, Choice ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface; Chapter 1: "Berninus Neapolitan[us] sculptor"; Chapter 2: Of Sculptors and Cobblers; Chapter 3: Tall Tales; Chapter 4: Biographies, Garments, and Bernini's "Abito...grosso, e rozzo" in Perspective; Chapter 5: Pride and Prejudice: Paris–Rome; Chapter 6: Bernini's Shadow; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisThis revelatory book concentrates on Scottish women painters and sculptors from 1885, when Fra Newbery became Director of the Glasgow School of Art, until 1965, the year of Anne Redpath's death. It explores the experience and context of the artists and their place in Scottish art history, in terms of training, professional opportunities and personal links within the Scottish art world. Celebrated painters including Joan Eardley, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and Phoebe Anna Traquair are examined alongside lesser-known figures such as Phyllis Bone, Dorothy Johnstone and Norah Neilson Gray, in order to look afresh at the achievements of Scottish women artists of the modern period. The book accompanies a show which will be held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two in Edinburgh from 7 November 2015 to 26 June 2016.

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Book SynopsisRodin & Dance: The Essence of Movement is the first serious study of Rodin’s late sculptural series known as the Dance Movements. Exploring the artist’s fascination with dance and bodies in extreme acrobatic poses, the exhibition and accompanying catalogue give an account of Rodin’s passion for new forms of dance – from south-asian dances to the music hall and the avant garde – which began appearing on the French stage around 1900. Rodin made hundreds of drawings and watercolours of dancers. From about 1911 he also gave sculptural expression to this fascination with dancers’ bodies and movements in creating the Dance Movements, a series of small clay figure studies (each approx. 30 cm in height) that stretch and twist in unsettling ways. These leaping, turning figures in terracotta and plaster were found in the artist’s studio after his death and were not exhibited during Rodin’s lifetime or known beyond his close circle. Presented alongside the associated drawings and photographs of some of the dancers, they show a new side to Rodin’s art, in which he pushed the boundaries of sculpture, expressing themes of flight and gravity. This exhibition catalogue aims to become the authoritative reference for Rodin’s Dance Movements, comprising essays from leading scholars in the field of sculpture. It includes an introductory essay on the history of the bronze casting of the Dance Movements and the critical fortune of the series, an essay on the dancers Rodin admired, and an extensive technical essay. The Catalogue will comprise detailed entries on the works in the exhibition and new technical information on the drawings. Contributors include Alexandra Gerstein, Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Courtauld Institute of Art; Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Director, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris; Juliet Bellow, Associate Professor of Art History, American University in Washington, DC and currently Resident Fellow, the Center for Ballet and the Arts, New York University; François Blanchetière, Curator of Sculpture at the Musée Rodin; Agnès Cascio and Juliette Lévy, distinguished sculpture conservators; Sophie Biass-Fabiani, Curator of Works on Paper at the Musée Rodin; and Kate Edmonson, Conservator of Works on Paper at The Courtauld Gallery.Trade ReviewSimply put, Rodin excelled at fragmentation, assemblage and variation. * The Art Newspaper *Perfectly realised … excellent catalogue" * Apollo Magazine *

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Book SynopsisIsamu Noguchi's Skyviewing Sculpture was created by invitation for Western Washington University, north of Seattle, in 1969. The 14-foot high sculpture, which sits in the university's central quad, acts as an observatory, encouraging viewers to enter and turn their gaze to the sky. 'Skyviewing' was a leitmotif in Noguchi's art throughout his long career as an artist and landscape architect, from his early work alongside Constantin Brancusi in Paris in 1928 to his death in 1988. Some sculptures act as reflecting telescopes with polished stone that mirror the firmament while others trace the path of the sun with cast shadows or lead the eye up towards the sky. The work at Western invites the viewer in, and guides the eye upwards to observe the sky in all of its variety. Looking Up explores Noguchi's work on the themes of space, and our place in the universe; examines the changing artistic climate during his long career; and places Noguchi in context with a younger generation of artists, including Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, James Turrell, and Charles Ross. The book includes essays by leading specialists, as well as a plate section and contemporary photos of the creation, transportation and installation of Skyviewing Sculpture .Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Looking Up by Hafthor Yngvason; Noguchi and the Jantar Mantars of Northern India by Matthew Kirsch; Plates by Kate Wiener with Matthew Kirsch; Sculpture in Progress; Bibliography; Picture Credits; Index

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary perspective no the spread and development of the stucco technique between the 16th and 18th centuries, and the different forms it took throughout Europe. Text in English and Italian.

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating book gives an introduction to some of the oldest, boldest and coldest sculptures ever made! From the sphinx and the Statue of Liberty, to works by Henry Moore, Rachel Whiteread and Meret Oppenheim, the sculptures are revealed in stunning photographs, alongside interesting and informative facts.

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Book SynopsisLouise Nevelson (1899-1988) was, with Calder, Noguchi and David Smith, one of the great American sculptors of the 20th century. She created extraordinary work, from room-size installations composed of boxes to gnarled and majestic steel structures. This book tells her life story.Table of Contents1. Russian Roots 1899–1905 • 2. Rockland Childhood 1906–1919 • 3. Marriage and Motherhood 1920–1925 • 4. Art at Last 1929–1934 • 5. The Beginning of Sculpture 1934–1940 • 6. Surrealism 1940–1946 • 7. Death and Reparation 1946–1953 • 8. A Forgotten Village 1954–1957 • 9. Moon Garden Breakthrough 1958–1960 • 10. Glittering Glory 1960–1962 • 11. Icarus 1962–1963 • 12. Architect of Reflection 1964– 1965 • 13. Empress of the Environment 1966–1968 • 14. Mistress of Transformation 1969–1971 • 15. La Signora of Spring Street 1972–1974 • 16. Large Scale 1975–1976 • 17. “The Nevelson” 1967–1988 • 18. The Chapel and the Palace 1978–1979 • 19. A Big Birthday 1980–1985 • 20. The End 1986–1988

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Book SynopsisMade from Bronze with eyes inlaid with glass pupils set in metal rings, the 'Meroe Head' is a magnificent portrait of Julius Caesar's great nephew and adopted heir Augustus (63 BC-AD 14).

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Book SynopsisA new and updated edition of the definitive monograph on the British artist Antony Gormley, now available in an affordably priced format.This beautiful and comprehensive monograph, expanded and updated in a new affordably priced edition, examines the entirety of Gormley’s career, from his earliest sketches to his best-known public installations. Martin Caiger-Smith’s “magnificent, magisterial overview” (The Independent) examines the relationship between Gormley’s life and art and identi-fies the singular vision that ties together a vast canon of work in an extraordinary range of media and materials.  Best known for the major public works that most visibly represent his innovative approach to sculpture, Gormley is a prolific artist who has renegotiated the tension between the individual and the universal. Drawing on images that range from childhood snapTrade Review"Antony Gormley’s definitive monograph by Martin Caiger-Smith, which was released in 2017, received much acclaim for its comprehensive overview of one of the most important sculptors of his generation. This spring, a new edition is being released in an expanded and updated format, plus a more accessible price point. Like the original, the tome spans the entirety of Gormley’s career, from his earliest sketches to his most famous installations. Best known for the major public works that most visibly represent his innovative approach to sculpture, Gormley is a prolific artist who has renegotiated the tension between the individual and the universal." —GALERIE MAGAZINE

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Book SynopsisWith an overview of women sculptors from Harriet Hosmer to Sarah Lucas we explore the work of 50 great women artists who have forged a name for themselves in a male arena, broken rules, pushed boundaries and inspired us with their visionary creations. Includes: Maggi Hambling, Sophie Ryder, Helaine Blumenfeld, Rachel Ara and many more.Trade Review"There is need for books to celebrate new thought, new ideas, new people and this is what it achieves."--Guy Portelli, Sculptor "Email "; "50 Women Sculptors is a beautifully illustrated book which presents the world of undervalued and under recognised women sculptors from the past as well as a selection from the present, with in depth interviews on their life, inspirations, working methods and use of all materials mentioned above - an improvement compared with the past but there is still room for full equality to be achieved. For those interested in sculpture, whether practising sculptors or researchers, or those at the start of their careers, this is an extremely valuable book and perfect introduction to encourage further research and interest in sculpture by women." -Lorna Green, sculptor and environmentalist; "It shows a wide range of sculptural practice with interesting interviews giving insight into the artist's process." - Clare Burnett, president Royal Society of Sculptors.

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Book SynopsisCarol Bove: Collage Sculptures presents an extensive look into the contemporary artist’s work over the past five years and her ongoing exploration of scale, color, material, and artistic traditions of the twentieth century. Bove’s recent work engages the conceptual concerns of mid-century sculpture, such as spontaneity, industrial materials, and the potential of painted sculpture. However, within this space of familiar sculptural traditions, Bove has discovered new approaches that lead to places previously unknown. Bove’s “collage sculptures” are created from scrap metal and stainless steel that has been carefully worked into sinuous forms and are frequently painted. Considering the hard rigidity of the steel, the works possess an appearance of almost impossible softness, as if steel could become as pliable as clay. Such works range from small pedestal sculptures to large, imposing compositions. Bove’s interest in scale and how a viewer’s understanding of an artwork shifts depending on its context are explored through a selection of small works from the collection of the Nasher Sculpture Sculpture. Published by the Nasher Sculpture Center, the catalogue features beautiful reproductions of Bove’s work and an introduction as well as an essay by curator Catherine Craft on the development of the collage sculptures and their relationship to other artists and traditions of modern sculpture. Also included is an essay by Lisa Le Feuvre that explores Bove’s complex work by means of a thematic alphabet related to the artist’s interests.

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Book SynopsisKnown for her intricate and distinct artistic language, Asawa produced numerous sculptures, drawings, and prints that are built on simple, repeated gestures that accumulate into complex compositions. Her works on paper and “continuous” looped-wire sculptures suggest a field of fluctuating positive and negative forms, a means of reshaping how we perceive the world. Personal motifs reappear throughout in the most comprehensive look at the artist’s oeuvre to date––ceramic casts of faces of her family, friends, and neighbors; the carved front door Asawa and her family made for their home; and drawings of her children, grandchildren, and husband sleeping––all providing an expansive look into the artist’s life.A document of the breathtaking and surprising exhibition Ruth Asawa: All Is Possible, organized by Helen Molesworth, this book records and expands upon the show, offering new insight from writers and curators with a selection of sixty-four works from Asawa’s spectacular oeuvre. With an introduction by Molesworth, this book features focused texts from Makeda Best, Taylor Davis, Ruth Erickson, Briony Fer, Jennifer L. Roberts, and John Yau.

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Book SynopsisA clear-eyed portrayal of the audacious Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini.

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Book Synopsis 180 atmospheric photographs of graveyards, catacombs, tombs, burial sites and cemeteries Expert text explains the fascinating stories behind the burial places Includes wide-ranging examples, from modern underwater crematoriums to grand ancient necropolises

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Book SynopsisThe book showcases these unique artworks in their different mediums as they are exhibited in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art. Serving as a guide and keepsake, Petrichor is the perfect takeaway from Collishaw’s exciting exhibition. Highlights include the UK premier of Even to the End, a large-scale projected work that immerses viewers in a sequence inspired by the invention of the Wardian Case, The Centrifugal Soul, a zoetrope displaying bird courtship against a backdrop of blooming flowers and The Albion, an eerie spectre of an oak tree suspended between life and death.

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Book SynopsisThe Language of Mixed-Media Sculpture is both a survey and a celebration of contemporary approaches to sculptures that are formed from more than one material. It profiles the discipline in all its expanded forms and recognizes sculpture in the twenty-first century not as something solid and static, but rather as a fluid interface in material, time and space. It gives insightful revelations of the creative journeys of ten renowned sculptors and showcases twenty-eight international sculptors. With over two hundred colour photographs, this sumptuously illustrated volume will inspire those intrigued by and interested in contemporary sculpture.

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Book SynopsisThis publication offers a rich and expansive visual record of Julie Brook’s artistic practice, and proposes a unique collaboration between Brook and distinct voices from the nature writing and craftsmanship traditions. Situating Brook’s practice in the context of critical reflections by Robert Macfarlane, Alexandra Harris and Raku Jikinyū, the publication presents a striking visual narrative of Brook's landscape and tidal sculptural work, and a sense of its timeless yet contemporary resonance. Documenting in depth a number of recent works made in the Hebrides, Japan and Namibia, their shared attention to the elements and their key pre-occupations of the fleeting, mobile forces of light, time, and gravity demonstrate Brook’s coherent vision within vastly contrasting environments. Throughout her oeuvre, the balance between what Brook makes in relation to the environment and materials themselves is paramount. Including film stills, photography and drawing, which are all integral languages for conceptualising and communicating the work, plus insightful extracts from Brook’s notebooks, this beautiful publication succeeds in providing the reader with a unique understanding of the artist’s ‘monuments to the moment’.Table of ContentsForeword; Introduction; 1. Winter Wall; 2. Parallel Space; 3. Firestack; 4. Ascending; 5. Divided Block; 6. Ongoing; Chronology and Exhibitions; Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSculptor and printmaker Kim Lim (1936-1997) had a lifelong fascination with space and its relationship with two- and three-dimensions. This important new publication explores her outstanding body of work. In a series of fascinating chapters, leading art-world specialists survey the artist's rich career and legacy across four decades. Exploring Lim's profound contribution to the development of modern British abstract art, her marginalisation in the histories of sculpture since her death is questioned. Through reproductions of Lim's work in wood, metal, stone and paper, the artist's shape-shifting oeuvre, which continually probed relationships between space, light and form, is rightfully brought centre stage. Including discussion of Lim's Asian heritage and its connection to her work, this publication is essential reading for all those seeking new perspectives on both Lim and British art history more broadly.

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Book SynopsisA new and revised edition of the 2002 popular title, The Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, this exquisitely produced book showcases the garden in St Ives throughout the seasons, with new photography and updated information on the plants from the Head Gardener, Jodi Dickinson. Barbara Hepworth's studio at Trewyn in St Ives is a unique combination of sub-tropical garden and sculpture museum. A haven of peace, it provided Hepworth with a working environment, a showcase for her sculpture, and the opportunity to pursue her love of gardening. The Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden is a beautiful record of the plants and sculptures at Trewyn through the seasons, exploring the relationship between Hepworth's sculpture and the natural forms that surround them. With specially commissioned photographs and full descriptions of both plants and sculptures, this is a comprehensive record of Barbra Hepworth's years in St Ives, and a beautiful souvenir of the garden. Texts from art historian and previous curator at Tate, Chris Stephens, along with Miranda Philips contextualises the work of Hepworth and the decisions made to create one of the most famous artists gardens in the world.

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Book SynopsisHenry Moore's rise from Yorkshire miner's son to international acclaim as the twentieth century's greatest sculptor is one of the most remarkable stories in British art. In this revised, updated, expanded and redesigned new edition of The Life of Henry Moore, Roger Berthoud charts Moore's transition from controversial young modernist to pillar of the art-world establishment, garlanded with domestic and foreign honours. His account is enriched by the weekly interviews he did with Moore -- and his wife Irina -- before the sculptor's death in 1986, aged eighty-eight. At home and abroad Moore's sculptures aroused strong passions and were often the object of abuse, sharp criticism and even physical assault, as well as of admiration. He was attacked by younger artists, among others, who saw his growing fame as an obstacle to their advancement. He was to survive the ebb and flow in his reputation, and emerge with the status of a contemporary old master. From a mass of material, including recently discovered early letters, and interviews with Moore's friends, his former assistants and students, dealers, collectors, museum officials and leading architects with whom he worked, Roger Berthoud has built up a lively and engaging though not uncritical picture of Moore's long life and career in this definitive biography.Trade Review'...a landmark in the literature on Moore. A nice balance is struck between the account of Moore's life and the use of criticism to place and assess his work.' Frances Spalding in Listener '...[it] conveys Moore's great personal charm as well as his artistic achievement; it is hard to imagine it being bettered.' Economist '...impeccably documented, admirably organized and undeniably gripping...' Hilary Spurling in Daily Telegraph '...[a] very readable biography -- the first to give us a comprehensive account of the artist...He knew Moore. He liked him and -- what is most important -- he has a vivid understanding of both the man and his work.' Hilton Kramer in Boston GlobeTable of ContentsAcknowledgements viii Prelude xii Chapter I Childhood and school 1 1898-1916 Chapter II Briefly to war 21 1917 to early 1919 Chapter III Art student in Leeds 35 1919-21 Chapter IV Student in London and abroad 46 1921-5 Chapter V Public debuts and teaching 72 1925-8 Chapter VI Marriage and a masterpiece 97 1929-31 Chapter VII Hampstead, Chelsea and Kent 123 1931-6 Chapter VIII Surrealism, constructivism and socialism 154 1936-9 Chapter IX Shelter drawings and the Northampton Madonna 186 1940-4 Chapter X Via New York and Venice to international fame 225 1945-8 Chapter XI Execration and celebration 252 1949-51 Chapter XII Anthology pieces, and a trip to Mexico 275 1952-4 Chapter XIII Unesco, New Zealand and Auschwitz 298 1956-8 Chapter XIV Good causes, big dealers, and Caro's thrust 322 1959-62 Chapter XV The Lincoln Center piece 341 1962-5 Chapter XVI Toronto and the Tate Gift 365 1965-74(i) Chapter XVII Towards apotheosis in Florence 387 1965-72(ii) Chapter XVIII Becoming an institution 423 1973-9 Chapter XIX Pain and good works 462 1980-6 Chronology of main events involving the Henry Moore Foundation since Henry Moore's death in 1986 499 Appendix The value of money 504 1898-1986 Short bibliography 506 Notes 509 Acknowledgements for photographs 530 Index 532

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Holyer an Gof Award 2022 (Leisure and Lifestyle) An illustrated guide to one hundred of the finest early Cornish stone crosses, dating from around AD 900 to 1300. These characteristic features of the Cornish landscape are splendid examples of their type, exhibiting a wide geographical spread and a certain weather-beaten beauty. The medieval stone crosses of Cornwall have long been objects of curiosity both for residents and visitors. This is the first ever accessible volume on the subject, combining detailed description and discussion of the crosses with information on access, colour images and suggestions for further reading. An approachable but academically rigorous work, it includes analysis of the decorative designs and sculptural techniques, accompanied by high-quality photographs which illustrate the subtleties of each cross, often hard to discern in situ. Ancient and High Crosses of Cornwall offers an ideal introduction for the general reader but will also prove essential to local historians, landscape historians, archaeologists and anyone working in the area of Cornish studies or connected with the Cornish diaspora. DOI: https://doi.org/10.47788/NKIP4746Trade ReviewWith its well-illustrated, information-packed catalogue and good bibliography for further reading, this volume is an excellent invitation to both specialist and the uninitiated to explore the earliest, tallest and finest medieval crosses of Cornwall, and I certainly intend to try it out. -- Michael King * Down County Museum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Historical overview Inscriptions on the crosses Cornish groups or schools of stone sculpture Dating the monuments Function of the crosses Antiquarian study and restoration Glossary Using this book to visit crosses A note on photography Catalogue of Crosses Advent, Tresinney St Allen St Blazey, Biscovey Blisland, St Pratt’s Cross Bodmin, Carminow Breage St Breock, Whitecross St Breward 1 St Breward 2 St Breward 3, Middle Moor Cross St Buryan 1 St Buryan 2, Crows an Wra Camborne 1, Fenton-Ia Camborne 2, Gwealavellan Cardinham 1 Cardinham 2 Cardinham 3, Treslea St Cleer 1, Doniert Stone St Cleer 2, Other Half Stone St Cleer 3, Long Tom St Cleer 4, Holy Well St Clement St Clether, Cross Gates St Columb Major Constantine 1, Trewardreva Constantine 2, Trevease Cury St Dennis Egloshayle 1, Pencarrow Egloshayle 2, Three Hole Cross Egloshayle 3, The Prior’s Cross St Endellion, Long Cross St Erth 1 St Erth 2 St Ewe, Lanhadron Feock Fowey, Tristan Stone St Germans, Carracawn Cross Gerrans Gulval 1 Gulval 2 Gwinear 1, Connor Downs Gwinear 2, Lanherne Cross St Juliot St Just-in-Penwith St Kew 1, Job’s Cross St Kew 2, Polrode Cross Laneast 1 Laneast 2, Laneast Downs Lanhydrock 1 Lanhydrock 2, Treffry Lanivet 1 Lanivet 2 Lanivet 3, Lesquite Lanlivery, Milltown Lanteglos by Camelford 1 Lanteglos by Camelford 2 Lelant Lesnewth St Levan Lostwithiel, Crewel Cross Ludgvan Mabe, Helland Madron 1, Boscathnoe Madron 2, Boswarthen Menheniot, Tencreek Michaelstow St Michael’s Mount Minster, Waterpit Down St Minver, St Michael Porthilly Mullion, Predannack Mylor St Neot 1, 2 St Neot 3, Four Hole Cross Padstow 1 Padstow 2 Padstow 3, Prideaux Place Paul 1 Paul 2 Paul 3, Kerris, Carlankan Pelynt, Trelay Penzance, Market Cross Perranzabuloe, St Piran’s Cross 203 Phillack 206 Quethiock 208 Roche 210 Sancreed 1 212 Sancreed 2 214 Sancreed 3, Brane 218 Sennen, Trevear 220 South Petherwin, Holyway Cross 222 Stithians, Tretheague 224 St Teath 226 Tintagel 1 229 Tintagel 2, Bossiney 232 Truro 234 Wendron 1 236 Wendron 2, Meruny 237 Wendron 3, Merther Uny 238 St Wenn, Crossy Ann Parish Pages St Allen St Buryan St Clether Lanivet Lanteglos by Camelford Lelant Ludgvan St Neot Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisZygotes and Confessions is a publication devoted to the work of London-based artist Nick Hornby, and has been produced to accompany his first solo exhibition in a public gallery. The exhibition, which shares its title with the publication, is presented at MOSTYN, Wales, UK, from November 2020 to April 2021.Hornby is known for his monumental site-specific works that combine digital software with traditional materials such as bronze, steel, granite and marble. In this publication he presents a substantial new body of smaller, more intimate work comprising three discrete yet interrelated series of works inspired by the history of sculptural busts, modernist abstractions and mantelpiece ceramic dogs. United by glossy photographic surfaces created by means of an industrial process in which his marble and resin composite sculptures are dipped into liquid photographs, these new works explore themes of portraiture, the body, identity, sexuality and intimacy in the digital era. A number of the works have been made in collaboration with fashion photographer Louie Banks.Along with a foreword by Helen Boyd, Head of Marketing and Publisher Relations at the Casemate Group, the publication features a text by MOSTYN director Alfredo Cramerotti and an essay by London-based publisher, editor and writer Matt Price. Price writes: "With one eye on the sculpture of the past and the other on that of tomorrow, technology is at the heart of London-based Nick Hornby’s practice and is central to the production of his often imposing, mind-bending and futuristic-looking sculptures. Using materials such as bronze and marble, his work points back towards the Renaissance or the nineteenth century, yet his use of resin and digital technology positions him very much in the present, exploring languages both figurative and abstract, often simultaneously."The texts are presented in both English and Welsh. Newly commissioned studio photography of the works by Ben Westoby, along with installation views of the exhibition commissioned by MOSTYN from Mark Blower, illustrate the publication, which has been designed by Joe Gilmore / Qubik. The publication is co-published by MOSTYN, Wales, UK, and Anomie Publishing, London, and distributed internationally by Casemate Art, a division of the Casemate Group.Nick Hornby (b.1980) is a British artist living and working in London. Hornby studied at the Slade School of Art and Chelsea College of Art. His work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, Southbank Centre London, Leighton House London, CASS Sculpture Foundation, Glyndebourne, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Museum of Arts and Design New York, and Poznan Biennale, Poland. Residencies include Outset (Israel) and Eyebeam (USA), and awards include the UAL Sculpture Prize. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, frieze, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, The FT, and featured in Architectural Digest and Sculpture Magazine.

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Book SynopsisFor over half a century, Valencia-born, New York-based Manolo Valdés has been a prominent international figure in the arena of contemporary art, known for his work in the mediums of sculpture, painting, drawing and collage. In this striking and imposing publication, designed in close dialogue with the artist by Peter B. Willberg and produced in Italy, Valdés presents a body of thirty-five sculptures created in 2020 and 2021. Along with wood, alabaster, aluminium, steel and resin, the primary medium employed in this body of work is glass, following a significant and intense period of research and experimentation.The resulting works are engaging contemporary portrait busts that make reference to the history of modernist painting and sculpture, taking inspiration from imagery and objects by twentieth-century masters such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Constantin Brancusi. Developing his ‘recipes’ for their fabrication – materials, processes, conditions and timings – with both care and flair, Valdés has created sculptural glass busts in a range of amber oranges, ruby reds, emerald greens, sapphire blues, and onyx blacks, all of which almost seem to glow with what Dr Kosme de Barañano, the book’s author, describes as ‘an inner light’.Barañano’s comprehensive and illuminating essay not only investigates aspects of the history of glass making and its use as a material by artists past and present, but also traces the evolution of the language and forms of Valdés’s glass and mixed-media works across a number of key exhibitions and bodies of work over the course of the past two decades. These include his monumental sculptures at the New York Botanical Garden in 2012 and his dramatic solo presentation in the Place Vendôme in Paris in 2016, both of which offered opportunities to see the artist’s large-scale sculptural works in outdoor settings. Discussing the significance of 'Cabezas' (heads) in his oeuvre, Barañano asserts: ‘These glass "Cabezas" are tremendously sombre and simple works from which emanates a profound silence.’This large-format publication, which is illustrated by specially commissioned photography by Tom Powel, documents many of the sculptures from different angles and by means of details, revealing not only the subtleties and qualities of the surfaces of the abstracted, humanlike glass heads, but also the curious and eclectic appendages that regularly appear to burst forth from them like unorthodox fascinators or eccentric jewellery, from nails and steel rods to glass or metal butterflies and wooden geometric forms. With a timelessness that speaks of civilisations long gone and a modernity that simultaneously seems to look to the future, Valdés has created a body of sculpture in glass that transcends time, touching on the metaphysical nature of the human mind and its outward manifestation in the physical world.Manolo Valdés (b.1942, Valencia) is one of the most significant post-war Spanish artists. A key member of the Equipo Crónica until 1981, in 1989 he moved to New York. Major solo exhibitions include the Guggenheim Bilbao, the Reina Sofía, Madrid, the New York Botanical Garden, and the Château Royale de Chambord, France.

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Book SynopsisConcrete Poetry is the first photographic survey of Modernist sculpture within the Brutalist context.Trade Review'Gems of British Brutalism and Modernism are under threat from time and tide, as much as the wrecking ball – luckily, photographer Simon Phipps has been documenting these harsh beauties for his book, Concrete Poetry . . . From the Denys Wilkinson Building to the Blackwall Tunnel's ventilation shafts, the UK is studded with post-war concrete odes to a better tomorrow. For those of us who don't have the time to trot around the country, ticking these pioneering structures off their list, Phipps' book is an essential coffee-table tour.' Wired magazine

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Book SynopsisThis full-length monograph on Geoffrey Clarke will address for the first time the totality of his work (sculpture, stained glass, mosaic, textiles, jewellery and medals) and place it within the context of post-war British art

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Book SynopsisThe work of the Japanese sculptor Toshimasa Kikuchi (born in 1979) is somehow bewilderingly obvious. Trained in the restoration of Buddhist statues, mastering to perfection the techniques of classical Japanese statuary, he carves pure forms in wood - geometric, hydrodynamic or figurative. His scientific repertory is of all time (mathematics, engineering, natural history), but his preferred materials and techniques are firmly grounded in tradition (Japanese hinoki cypress, urushi lacquer, kinpaku gold leaf). The installation he presents for his Carte Blanche at the musee Guimet in Paris, brings together a series of slender sculptures in lacquered wood of mathematical objects, in the tradition of the celebrated photographs that Man Ray took of them. These abstract forms, hanging from the ceiling like mobiles or laid on the floor like devotional objects, take shape through a virtuosity and craftsmanship seldom found in contemporary art. The book is lavishly illustrated by the Japanese photographer Tadayuki Minamoto, who was able to capture the magnificence of the mathematical abstraction of the works of Kikuchi; by photographs and paintings by Man Ray; and with fascinating mathematical objects from the Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, photographed by the French photographer Bertrand Michau. It is essential reading for lovers of surrealism and of the early years of twentieth-century abstraction as well as for all who are intrigued by the close relationship between art and mathematics.Table of ContentsForeword by Sophie Makariou; Lustrous Abstractions: The Sculpture of Kikuchi Toshimasa by Kei Osawa; Needles : Works by Kikuchi Toshimasa, photographs by Minamoto Tadayuki; Human Equations: Man Ray's Photographs of Mathematical Models, by Edouard Sebline; Mathematical Objects - Works by Man Ray; The Collection of Mathematical Objects at the Institut Henri Poincare (IHP), by Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage; The Music of Surfaces, by Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage; Mathematical Models from the Collection of the Institut Henri Poincare, photographs by Bertrand Michau; Acknowledgements; Picture Credits

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Book SynopsisFuture Bodies from a Recent Past brings to life a hitherto little-noticed phenomenon in art and sculpture in particular: the reciprocal interpenetration of bodies and technology. With 120 works by 59 artists—primarily from Europe, the USA and Japan—the exhibition is dedicated to the major technological changes since the post-war period and examines their influence on our notions of bodies. With contributions on topics such as the influence of changing production technologies, materialities, and concepts of the body, but also interdisciplinary considerations of body-technology relations, a multi-perspective history of contemporary sculpture will be outlined. English Edition! Exhibition Museum Brandhorst Munich2 June 2022 until 15 January 2023

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Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE (*1962, London) has developed opulently executed sculptures and installations, colourful collages and theatrically staged photographs and films. To do so he transforms episodes from art and history whose effects influence our present-day lives. The volume takes up the traces of colonialism and its consequences for role models, worldviews and body images in the works of Shonibare.

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Book SynopsisOn the occasion of his 85th birthday the famous international German artist Georg Baselitz (*1938) has donated a collection of works on paper to both the Albertina Museum in Vienna and the Morgan Library in New York. The publication combines the 100 sheets to create a representative retrospective, providing by virtue of its concentration an important contribution to the understanding of his entire oeuvre. The two extensive sets of drawings and watercolours date from different creative phases from the early 1960s to the present day. Through this direct medium the works provide an intimate insight into the artist’s creative process across the past five decades. An interview with Georg Baselitz conducted to mark this publication provides information about the significance of the works on paper in the genesis of his works and within his oeuvre.

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Book SynopsisSuzanne Ramljak is chief curator at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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