Sculpture Books
Crescent Moon Publishing THE Erotic Object: Sexuality in Sculpture from Prehistory to the Present Day
Book SynopsisThe Erotic Object: Sexuality in Sculpture From Prehistory to the Present The power and eroticism of sculpture, form, volume and space are sensitively explored in this wide-ranging study, which takes in the history of sculpture from prehistoric times to contemporary art. Featuring discussions of many famous sculptors, including: Michelangelo Buonarroti, Antonio Canova, Auguste Rodin, Eric Gill, Andy Goldsworthy, Jasper Johns, Constantin Brancusi, Pablo Picasso, Barbara Hepworth and Gianlorenzo Bernini. Many contemporary artists are studied too, including installation and performance artists (Catherine Elwes, Karen Finley, Ana Mendieta, Carolee Schneemann), and women sculptors such as Alice Aycock, Mary Miss, Rebecca Horn, Nancy Graves, Eva Hesse, Kathe Kollwitz and Judy Chicago. ? Regardless of what sculpture depicts, it can be seen as erotic. The surfaces, materials and forms are sensuous: wood, stone, marble, granite, clay, bronze. Touching is pleasure. It is a pleasure that is, perhaps, pre-institutional, pre-industrial and pre-political. Touching cuts through socialand cultural constructs, such asart, ideology, education and war, and goes back to aprimeval form of being. At same time, touching is a sense of the both personal and societal. John Keats said, ''touch hasa memory''. Sculpture activates this fundamental relation with things. Sculpture renews contact with the simple but utterly crucial experiences such as touch, sight, and smell. Fully illustrated, with many rare and fascinating illustrations, including prints, paintings and buildings as well as sculptures and statues. This book has been revised and updated. ISBN 9781861714092. 296 pages. www.crmoon.com
£24.99
Crescent Moon Publishing THE Art of Andy Goldsworthy
£23.51
Crescent Moon Publishing Constantin Brancusi: Sculpting the Essence of Things
£15.60
Euston Grove Press The Brown Dog and His Memorial
£10.08
Euston Grove Press Geology and Inhabitants of the Ancient World
£9.37
Sean Kingston Publishing Les Lions En Pierre Sculptee Chez Les Bakhtiari: Description Et Significations De Sculptures Zoomorphes Dans Une Societe Tribale Du Sud-oouest De L'Iran
Book SynopsisThis impressive work of scholarship brings together anthropology, religion, popular culture, and history in its focus on Bakhtiari lion tombstones that have remained largely unknown and hence little studied. Although lions have long figured in Iranian history, art and myth as symbols of rulership, power, religious leadership or as steadfast guardians, art historians have tended to concentrate their attentions on court traditions and the role of lions in popular culture, especially in religion, has remained little considered until this book. Funerary stone lions are to be found throughout western Iran, but are concentrated in the summer and winter pasture areas of the Bakhtiari, today's provinces of Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari, west of Isfahan, and Khuzistan. This highly illustrated colour volume draws on meticulous fieldwork and includes over three hundred photographs, drawings, charts and maps. The recording of this rare sculptural heritage, dating from the 16th century to the early 20th century, has become ever more pressing as some tombstones have been taken from their original settings and re-erected in parks, others damaged by the elements and some recently broken up to be used in road repairs. 'Pedram Khosronejad's Lion Tombstones among Bakhtiari Pastoral Nomads in South West Iran is to be greatly welcomed...[It is ]based on extensive fieldwork and represents something of a rescue project...This volume, however, goes further in raising three inter-related issues: why have these important artifacts been neglected even by specialists; how do they relate to a richer understanding of Iranian art and culture; and how does vernacular art relate to the accepted traditions of Iranian art?...This volume will prove to be important in bringing the lion tombstones to a larger public attention.' G. R. Garthwaite, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor in Asian Studies, Emeritus & Professor of History, Emeritus
£123.50
Armchair Adventurer Imaginings and Amusements
£42.46
Skira Canova e Venezia (Bilingual edition): Photographs
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£21.60
Brill Animals in Stone: Indian Mammals Sculptured Through Time
Book SynopsisThe art history of South Asia covers a time span of roughly four and a half thousand years. During this period, a vast number of animal stone sculptures has been produced, ranging from the pre-historic period till today and covering a great variety of motifs and imagery in different regions and religious traditions. Even so, the number of studies devoted to these animal sculptures has remained extremely limited. The present book aims at filling this knowledge gap. With this richly illustrated book, the first of its kind, Van der Geer offers a comparative study of the ways in which various animals have been depicted and a lucid analysis of the sculptors’ treatment of their “models”: living animals. The art history of sculptured animals is contextualized with a description of the use of animals as can be read from ancient texts, archaeological evidence and contemporaneous culture. In doing so, parallels as well as differences in style or iconography are highlighted, elucidating the variety of animal depictions across regions, religious contexts and through time. The corpus of discussed material ranges from Indus seals, stupa panels and railings, monumental temples from North and South India, non-religious palace and fort architecture to loose sculptures in museum collections.Trade Review"... a treasure trove.(...) a reference work that belongs in any serious library collections that gives attention to Asia." Lance E. Nelson, University of San Diego, JAS
£239.20
Brill Sculpture in Print, 1480–1600
Book SynopsisSculpture in Print, 1480–1600 is the first in-depth study dedicated to the intriguing history of the translation of statues and reliefs into print. The multitude of engravings, woodcuts and etchings show a highly creative handling of the ‘original’ antique or contemporary work of art. The essays in this volume reflect these various approaches to and challenges of translating sculpture in print. They analyze foremost the beginnings of the phenomenon in Italian and Northern Renaissance prints and they highlight by means of case studies amongst many other topics the interrelated terminology between sculpture and print, lost models in print, the inventive handling of fragments, as well as the transformation of statues into narrative contexts.Trade Review“This book provides a wonderful introduction to the topic in all its breadth.” Joris van Gastel, University of Zurich. In: Print Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 4 (December 2022), pp. 456–460.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors “Quanto in virtù d’una ingegnosa mano / la fermezza de’marmi ai fogli cede”: The Art of Translating Sculpture into Print. An Introduction Anne Bloemacher, Mandy Richter and Marzia Faietti Part 1: Antique Sculpture 1 Aes Incidimus: Early Modern Engraving as Sculpture Madeleine C. Viljoen 2 Transferring Ancient Sculptures into Prints. Marcantonio Raimondi’s “Quos Ego”: Its Prototypes and Afterimages Gudrun Knaus 3 Marcantonio Raimondi and Fragmentary Ancient Statues: Hypotheses on His Working Method and Antiquarian Practice Mandy Richter 4 Cherubino Alberti’s Engravings after Polidoro da Caravaggio: from Chiaroscuro to Sculpture Maria Gabriella Matarazzo 5 From Sculpture to Print to Sculpture. Parmigianino, Caraglio and the Mystery of the Barberini Faun Marzia Faietti Part 2: Contemporary Sculpture 6 The Reproduction of Sculpture as Sculpture in 16th Century Prints: Baccio Bandinelli, Giambologna, and Adriaen de Vries Anne Bloemacher 7 The Young Baccio Bandinelli and the Role of Prints at the Beginning of a Sculptor’s Career Angelika Marinovic 8 Considering the Viewer in Prints of Michelangelo’s Risen Christ: The Cases of Beatrizet and Matham Bernadine Barnes 9 On the Genesis of Antonio Tempesta’s Print of Henry ii on Horseback Claudia Echinger-Maurach 10 Sculpture’s Narrativity in Northern Renaissance Prints Franciszek Skibiński 11 Models for Sculptures in Print: Michelangelo’s Samson and Two Philistines in Lucas Kilian’s Engravings Claudia Echinger-Maurach Index
£152.00
Brill Afterlives of Ancient Rock-cut Monuments in the Near East: Carvings in and out of Time
Book SynopsisThis book concerns the ancient rock-cut monuments carved throughout the Near East, paying particular attention to the fate of these monuments in the centuries after their initial production. As parts of the landscapes in which they were carved, they acquired new meanings in the cultural memory of the people living around them. The volume joins numerous recent studies on the reception of historical texts and artefacts, exploring the peculiar affordances of these long-lasting and often salient monuments. The volume gathers articles by archeologists, art historians, and philologists, covering the entire Near East, from Iran to Lebanon and from Turkey to Egypt. It also analyzes long-lasting textual traditions that aim to explain the origins and meaning of rock-cut monuments and other related carvings.Trade Review"The volume’s contents are thus wide-ranging and the main message to learn is that ancient rock-cut monuments triggered vivid yet very varied reactions throughout their existence. (...) The editors’ intent to consider the “afterlives” of monuments in this inclusive way is to be praised" - Marc Van De Mieroop, Columbia University, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2022.04.26 "This is an interesting collection on how inscriptions were interpreted before modern scholarship and who was interested in doing so." - Lester L. Grabbe, in The Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2022 “The volume’s contents are thus wide-ranging and the main message to learn is that ancient rock-cut monuments triggered vivid yet very varied reactions throughout their existence. (…) The editors’ intent to consider the “afterlives” of monuments in this inclusive way is to be praised, and I hope that the chapters that do so successfully will inspire others to pursue the same path.” - Marc Van De Mieroop, Columbia University, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2022.04.26.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Felipe Rojas and Jonathan Ben-Dov 2 Entangled Images: Royal Memory, Posthumous Presence, and the Afterlives of Assyrian Rock Reliefs Karen Sonik and David Kertai 3 Narrating Temporality: Three Short Stories about Egyptian Royal Living-Rock Stelae Jen Thum and Anne-Claire Salmas 4 Forgetting an Empire, Creating a New Order: Trajectories of Rock-Cut Monuments from Hittite into Post-Hittite Anatolia, and the Afterlife of the “Throne” of Kızıldağ Lorenzo d’Alfonso and Matteo Pedrinazzi 5 A Carving in Antioch: History, Magic, Antiquarianism, Archaeology Felipe Rojas 6 Herodotus and Empire: Ancient Near Eastern Monuments and Their Cultural Recycling in Herodotus’ Histories Robert Rollinger 7 Sculpting in Time: Rock Reliefs, Inscriptions and the Transformation of Iranian Memory and Identity Matthew P. Canepa 8 Éminences grises: Emergent Antiquities in Seventeenth-Century Iran Lindsay Allen and Moya Carey 9 Neo-Babylonian Rock Reliefs and the Jewish Literary Imagination Jonathan Ben-Dov 10 Translatio studii: Stelae Traditions in Second Temple Judaism and Their Legacy in Byzantium William Adler 11 The Long History of an Imaginary Inscription: Josephus’s Two Pillars in Early Modern European Histories of Astronomy John Steele Index
£160.80
Dimitrios S. Sotas Modeling Molding Casting Replication
£94.99
Hermann Editeurs Des Sciences Et Des Arts Sa Why I am a sculptor
£13.63
American Medallic Sculpture Association The Art of Making Medals
£26.99
£18.04
Independently Published Clay Mastery Handbook
£999.99
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp ZBrush User Guide For Beginners
£999.99
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp ZBrush User Guide For Beginners
£18.98
Independently Published Advanced Wire Sculpting Handbook
£999.99
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Sweet Sugar Art
£17.75
Independently Published 3D paper sculpting for Beginners
£999.99
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp ZBRUSH 2025 Guidebook
£14.29
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Raku Pottery Made Simple
£13.22
Independently Published Malagazzetta
£19.99
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Corso di Ceramica
£13.09
MIT Press Ltd Negative Space Trajectories of Sculpture in the
Book SynopsisA bold new spatial perspective on modern sculpture, with 800 color images of work by artists including Henry Moore, Lygia Clark, Anish Kapoor, and Ana Mendieta.This monumental, richly illustrated volume from ZKM Karlsruhe approaches modern sculpture from a spatial perspective, interpreting it though contour, emptiness, and levitation rather than the conventional categories of unbroken volume, mass, and gravity. It examines works by dozens of twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists, including Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Lygia Clark, Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, Ana Mendieta, Fujiko Nakaya, Tomás Saraceno, and Alicja Kwade. The large-scale book contains over 800 color images. Negative Space comes out of an epic exhibition at ZKM, and volume editor Peter Weibel (Chairman and CEO of ZKM) takes a curatorial approach to the topic. The last exhibition to deal comprehensively with the question “What is modern s
£54.40
£23.64
Forgotten Books Lectures on Sculpture As Delivered Before the President and Members of the Royal Academy Classic Reprint
£21.89
Thames and Hudson Ltd Rodin World of art library artists series
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£6.71
British Museum Press Eric Gill Lust for Letter Line
Book SynopsisEric Gill (18821940) is one of the twentieth century's most controversial artists. This illustrated introduction focuses on the clarity of Gill's drawn and cut line. It explores his genius as a letter cutter, wood engraver, sculptor and typographer in the light of his refined finished drawings and preparatory sketches.
£9.49
Phaidon Press Ltd JeanMichel Othoniel
Book SynopsisThe groundbreaking sculptor's most comprehensive monograph to date
£29.75
Rizzoli International Publications Michelangelo The Complete Sculpture Painting
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA visual and literary treasure that brings Michelangelo, the artist, and his remarkable body of work—including sculptures, paintings, and architecture—to life.
£999.99
Rizzoli International Publications Kris Kuksi Conquest
Book SynopsisThis stunning volume presents the cult artist’s visually arresting and detailed sculptures, which evoke fantastic realism and the macabre. Kris Kuksi’s ornate artworks transcend a fine-art gallery context, appealing to a goth, street-culture audience. Using a range of mixed media and unconventional materials, Kuksi builds intricate miniature worlds out of model train kits, army men, jewelry, rocks, tchotchkes, religious souvenirs, figurines, and ornamental fixtures sourced from all over the world. Each of the delicate and unique assemblages host endless intricate baroque and macabre narratives, reminiscent of lost civilizations, classical sculpture, and fantastic realism. This volume features more than 200 color reproductions and intricate details of his works. Much-anticipated, it is bound to be collected by both loyal fans and those only now discovering Kuksi’s masterful, impossible-to-forget compositions, which draw the viewer i
£31.88
Rizzoli International Publications Tara Donovan
Book SynopsisTara Donovan's sculptures and installations are mind-bending experiences: she transforms common everyday materials like straws and index cards turning them into elaborate, room-size sculptures that are as surreal as they are beautifulMacArthur genius grant recipient Tara Donovan's otherworldly sculptures have transfixed audiences for over a decade. Taking mundane materials and through clever craftsmanship, ingenuity, and repeated manipulation, the artist builds large-scale works made of rubber bands, plastic tubing, and paper plates into objects that evoke the natural world or other organic material. This volume--which accompanies a major exhibition at MCA Denver--features an expansive selection of her most significant works to date, including sculpture, drawings, works on paper, and site-responsive installations. This exhibition will be the first time that Donovan's wall-based and freestanding objects will be installed together, in order to understand fully how the arti
£36.00
Rizzoli Karen LaMonte
Book SynopsisThis first major monograph on feminist sculptor Karen LaMonte features her hauntingly beautiful works that draw upon the power of the sublime.LaMonte's highly charged works embody a challenge to historic conceptions of the female nude. Integrated into a comprehensive monograph are 250 images of her acclaimed series--from glass, ceramic, bronze, and rusted iron-draped female figures to timely explorations in climatology and biomimetics.In this definitive look at a vital contemporary artist, essays by award-winning authors frame LaMonte's work in the context of female identity, music, art history, and science, placing her alongside other contemporary sculptors who have adopted the human body as an vehicle for expressing the human condition.
£46.00
Rizzoli Mel Kendrick Seeing Things in Things
Book SynopsisSpanning the entirety of the artist's career, Mel Kendrick: Seeing Things in Things charts the singular trajectory of one of the country's most adventurous sculptors.With more than 100 works representing four decades, this is the definitive monograph on abstract sculptor Mel Kendrick, who first emerged in 1970s New York, where he studied with legends Tony Smith and Robert Morris. At a time when Minimal and Conceptual art dominated, Kendrick forged his own path, embarking on a career-long series of provocative investigations into the fundamentals and possibilities of sculpture, his restless experimentations with form, scale, and materiality realized in wood, rubber, cast paper, or concrete. Essays by Nancy Princenthal, Allison N. Kemmerer, Terrie Sultan, and Adam D. Weinberg, and a conversation between Kendrick and fellow artist Carroll Dunham provide fascinating perspective on forty years of art making in the aftermath of Minimalism.
£36.80
Rizzoli International Publications John Pai
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive monograph on the master contemporary Korean American sculptor, from his seminal wire sculptures to his never-before-seen early works formed of steel.John Pai (b. 1937) is a prolific multimedia artist whose handmade three-dimensional sculptures are, paradoxically, still objects that seem to exist in a state of movement and transformation. This full-career survey of Pai’s inventive work consists of his rarely seen early work up to the present.Pai’s incredibly intricate, three-dimensional abstract “drawings in space” are made of endless lengths of individual steel or copper rods and textured sheets made from hundreds of rods welded together. Unlike many contemporary sculptors who draw a sketch and let metalworkers do the actual construction, Pai continues to do all his work himself―from choosing the materials to the labor-intensive process of welding and bending the metals into complex and sometimes massive forms
£40.00
Rizzoli International Publications Clay Pop
Book SynopsisClay Pop documents the reinvention of ceramic sculpture by a new generation of artists.
£40.00
Museum of Modern Art Oasis in the City
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£93.75
David Zwirner Jeff Koons Gazing Ball
Book SynopsisHailed by Peter Schjeldahl in The New Yorker as “the most original, controversial, and expensive American artist of the past three and a half decades,” Jeff Koons has come to reign as a master of the market, a wry puppeteer with a “formidable aesthetic intelligence.” His elaborate, exquisitely produced sculptures draw from a contemporary lexicon of consumerism—often featuring large-scale reproductions of toys, household items, or luxury goods—while simultaneously holding up a mirror to the very culture from which they are extracted. These references to popular media are evidenced not merely in his choice of subject matter but also in his visual techniques: his sculptures frequently comprise smooth, mirrored surfaces, and his paintings employ bright and saturated colors. Jeff Koons: Gazing Ball—the first catalogue on the artist’s work to be published by David Zwirner—was prod
£999.99
£23.00
£19.95
Forgotten Books Metal Spinning Principles of Metal Spinning And Tools and Methods Used in Metal Spinning Classic Reprint
£18.12
Forgotten Books Euthymides and His Fellows Classic Reprint
£21.01
Gingko Press, Inc Elemental / Earth: Material Design Process
Book SynopsisThe first in a new series of books exploring elemental materials, painting a bold picture of the present and future of handmade earthenware.
£32.29
David Zwirner Nikita Gale: END OF SUBJECT
Book SynopsisImmersing the audience in sound and light Nikita Gale’s END OF SUBJECT subverts understandings of viewership by prompting spectators to question their subjecthood within 52 Walker’s site-specific installation. Creating an aurally and visually rich environment, Gale engages with the architecture of the surrounding space, stimulating all senses through site-specific installation and muses on the boundaries of performance art. Considering and fracturing the physical space of the installation, the artist employs abolitionist ideology and institutional critique to simultaneously rupture and rebuild facets of the art institution. With an introduction by Ebony L. Haynes and a suite of poems by Harmony Holiday, this publication considers Gale’s multidisciplinary approach to address historical hierarchies of visibility. A text by the esteemed artist Andrea Fraser offers reflections on the various interventions at play during a gathering held in the exhibition.
£21.25
David Zwirner By Land, Air, Home, and Sea: The World of Frank
Book SynopsisExplore Frank Walter’s relationship to Antigua through a range of works and writings that express his intimate connection to Caribbean nature, landscape, and place. “Nothing seems to be reworked—it is as if each piece drew or painted itself without being adjusted, revised, or fussed over.” — Hyperallergic Influenced by his studies of agriculture and the sugar industry in the former British colony of Antigua as well as his extensive travels in England, Scotland, and West Germany, Walter created work inspired by his thoughts, knowledge, journeys, and surroundings—work that encompassed painting, drawing, writing, sculpture, photography, and sound. This focused selection focuses on paintings—tender, quiet, and lush—that transcend the traditional tourist’s view of island life in favor of perspectives that explore how and why we look at where we are.Published on the occasion of the 2022 exhibition at David Zwirner, this catalogue includes an introduction by the show’s curator Hilton Als. Barbara Paca, the leading expert on Walter, writes a text detailing her personal experience meeting Walter and being in his presence. An essay by Charlie Porter takes readers on a walk as he muses about Walter’s life and the nature depicted in his paintings. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro travels to Antigua to explore the history of the island and Walter’s lasting impact there.
£44.00
Beam Editions Derek Sprawson, Hyphen: Paintings – Drawings –
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£31.50
