Sculpture Books
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
Harvard University Press The Column of Antoninus Pius
Book SynopsisShortly after the death in 161 of Antoninus Pius, his sons dedicated a column to him as a funerary monument. The form of the column in general and the reliefs on the pedestal in particular raise problems central to the understanding of Roman art. In this first thorough study, illustrated with nearly 100 photographs, Lise Vogel restores the column to its rightful place as one of the major monuments of Roman art. In addition, she re-evaluates the meaning of the column of Antoninus Pius in the context of the development of second century Roman imperial sculpture.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Modern History of the Column of Antoninus Pius From Monte Citorio to the Vatican Restorations Moldings Apotheosis face Lateral faces Inscription face The Fragments 3. The Free-Standing Column Monument History of the Free-Standing Column Monument Obelisks The Cenotaph of Antoninus Pius 4. The Apotheosis Relief,br> Description and Identification Campus Martius Roma Winged Genius Antoninus Pius and Faustina I Eagles The Consecratio Scene Imperial Apotheosis in Roman Art Cameos, coins, medallions, and reliefs Style and development 5. The Decursio Reliefs Description and Identification Foot soldiers Riders Funeral decursio The Decursio Scene Repetition of the Decursio Relief Representation of a Decursio in Roman Art Asia Minor Panorama tradition Turf segments Conclusion 6. Conclusion: Program, Style, and Meaning Abbreviations Notes Index
£56.06
Harvard Department of the Classics Sculpture and Coins
Book SynopsisBased on a Harvard Art Museums symposium on the acquisition of Margarete Bieber’s coin collection, Sculpture and Coins addresses the relation between large statuary and miniature art in the private and public domain. Scholars from various disciplines explain the importance of coins for identifying and analyzing Greek and Roman portraiture.
£24.65
Princeton University Press Ambitious Form
Book SynopsisDescribes the transformation of Italian sculpture during the neglected half-century between the death of Michelangelo and the rise of Bernini. This book follows the Florentine careers of three major sculptors - Giambologna, Bartolomeo Ammanati, and Vincenzo Danti - as they negotiated the politics of the Medici court and eyed one another's work.Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2012 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011 "In this stimulating offering, Cole investigates sculptural enterprise in Florence during the second half of the 16th century. Focusing on Giambologna, Bartolomeo Ammanati, and Vincenzo Danti, this book is no mere survey of trends or compilation of biographies. It concerns what being a sculptor meant in this dynamic time and place and the nature of the plastic arts themselves. The study, which is as ambitious as its subjects were, succeeds brilliantly... [P]rofoundly original."--Choice "The book is beautifully illustrated and structured around clearly defined thematic chapters, and Cole weaves, or perhaps it would be better to say, builds an art historical text that is just as monumental as the sculptural works he discusses."--Jennifer D. Webb, Sixteenth Century Journal "Cole is persuasive and unsettling enough to ensure that no reader will be able to look at a sixteenth-century sculpture the same way again."--Cammy Brothers, Oxford Art Journal "Ambitious Form has much to recommend it as essential reading for anyone interested in the history of art. Cole's ability to make the reader/viewer take a second and more studied look at an object is repeatedly evinced."--Fredrika Jacobs, European LegacyTable of ContentsIntroduction i Chapter 1: Models 21 Chapter 2: Professions 51 Chapter 3: Naturalism 90 Chapter 4: Pose 121 Chapter 5: Sculpture as Architecture 158 Chapter 6: Chapels 193 Chapter 7: Sculpture in the City 244 Conclusion 283 Photo Credits 287 Notes 293 Acknowledgments 353 Index 357
£55.25
Princeton University Press Edgar Degas Sculpture
Book SynopsisAs an artist, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) defies easy description. Including essays on Degas' life and work, his sculptural technique and materials, and the story of the sculptures after his death, this title features art-historical and technical discussions of various works in the collection of National Gallery of Art, Washington.Trade Review"Edgar Degas Sculpture is the sumptuously illustrated, richly documented catalogue of the important collection of Degas sculpture in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C... [A] penetrating, eye-opening presentation of Degas' work in this other medium, which too often is relegated to the sideline of his work as a painter."--Choice
£80.75
Princeton University Press The New Monuments and the End of Man
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In an ambitious and compelling interpretation of sculpture between the end of WW II and the end of the Vietnam War, Slifkin (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU) examines the expansion of sculptural aesthetic properties, giving renewed attention to the property of monumentalism. Illuminating work ranging from abstract expressionism to land art, the author looks at this work as sharing a sculptural material presence that acknowledged the 'contemporary space and time of the viewer,' and in so doing offered images of a future Utopian or catastrophic in tone." * Choice *"A tour de force of social art history, following American sculpture’s mediation of Cold War anxieties until the end of the Nixon era."---David W. Norman, Art History
£31.50
Princeton University Press Lorenzo Ghiberti Volume I 5635 Princeton Legacy
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£100.30
Princeton University Press Lorenzo Ghiberti
Book SynopsisVolume 2 of 2. Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor and towering figure of the Renaissance, was the creator of the celebrated Bronze Doors of the Baptistery at Florence, a work that occupied him for twenty years and became known (at Michelangelo's suggestion, according to tradition) as the Doors of Paradise. Here Richard Krautheimer takes what Charles S. Sey
£40.80
Princeton University Press Lorenzo Ghiberti
Book SynopsisVolume 2 of 2. Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor and towering figure of the Renaissance, was the creator of the celebrated Bronze Doors of the Baptistery at Florence, a work that occupied him for twenty years and became known (at Michelangelo's suggestion, according to tradition) as the Doors of Paradise. Here Richard Krautheimer takes what Charles S. Sey
£80.75
Princeton University Press Black Mountain Chamberlain
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The main draw of [Black Mountain Chamberlain] is how it offers a new window into the sculptor’s process, how [John Chamberlain] broke the world around him into words." * Hyperallergic *
£37.80
Princeton University Press Rodins Egypt
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£32.30
Stanford University Press Heidegger Among the Sculptors
Book SynopsisIn the 1950s and 60s, Martin Heidegger turned to sculpture to rethink the relationship between bodies and space and the role of art in our lives. In his texts on the subjecta catalog contribution for an Ernst Barlach exhibition, a speech at a gallery opening for Bernhard Heiliger, a lecture on bas-relief depictions of Athena, and a collaboration with Eduardo Chillidahe formulates his later aesthetic theory, a thinking of relationality. Against a traditional view of space as an empty container for discrete bodies, these writings understand the body as already beyond itself in a world of relations and conceive of space as a material medium of relational contact. Sculpture shows us how we belong to the world, a world in the midst of a technological process of uprooting and homelessness. Heidegger suggests how we can still find room to dwell therein. Filled with illustrations of works that Heidegger encountered or considered, Heidegger Among the Sculptors makes a singular contributiTrade Review"Heidegger Among the Sculptors is an insightful exploration of the role sculpture plays in Heidegger's thinking of the interrelationship between corporeality and space." -- Sculpture Journal"In Heidegger Among the Sculptors, Andrew Mitchell offers an abundance of detailed information, as well as subtle and insightful reflections. His book is interspersed with extremely well-chosen images of works of sculpture. Throughout his discussions, Mitchell is attentive to the works and their specific character, and yet he never loses sight of the major philosophical questions that inform his reflections. This is a work of absolutely first-rate scholarship, of acute artistic sensitivity, and of philosophical profundity." -- John Sallis * Boston College *"This is a truly exceptional book: beautifully written, carefully argued, and deploying a detailed knowledge of Heidegger's oeuvre with a light touch. It is the first to be written on Heidegger and art that concentrates on sculpture and looks at the specific sculptural works discussed by Heidegger. Mitchell's achievement in this area is truly significant. Not only will this book appeal to Heidegger scholars, it will be of genuine interest to anyone who studies or is moved by sculpture." -- Andrew Benjamin * Monash University *
£16.14
The University of Alabama Press Speaking with the Ancestors Mississippian Stone Statuary of the TennesseeCumberland Region Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
Book SynopsisCompiling the data from early documents and public and private collections, this title remind us that the statuary should not be viewed in isolation, but rather as regional expressions of a much broader body of art, ritual, and belief. It also includes examples of southeastern Mississippian stone statuary, dating as far back as 1,000 years ago.
£30.56
Getty Trust Publications Greek Funerary Sculpture Catalogue of the
Book SynopsisA discussion of 59 Greek funerary monuments at the J. Paul Getty Museum. The title considers their relationships to the art and society of the period. It should be suitable for scholars and students of antiquities, and museum and art libraries.
£61.75
Getty Trust Publications Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum
Book SynopsisA catalogue of the sculptures on display in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Each entry features a full bibliography and is written for both experts and the general reading public. The introduction offers an overview of sculpture from the archaic period to the end of antiquity.
£999.99
Getty Trust Publications History of Restoration of Ancient Stone
Book SynopsisThe 19 papers in this volume stem from a symposium that brought together academics, archaeologists, museum curators, conservators and a practising marble sculptor to discuss varying approaches to restoration of ancient stone sculptures.
£52.25
Getty Trust Publications The Blind Spot
Book SynopsisBeginning in the seventeenth century, many of Europe's greatest writers and artists became embroiled in a debate that centered on the priority of paintings or sculpture, touch or sight, colour or design, ancient or modern. This title lets us eavesdrop on a contentious topic that preoccupied European intellectuals for three hundred years.
£28.50
Getty Trust Publications The Craftsman Revealed Adriaen De Vries Sculptor
Book SynopsisDutch sculptor Adriaen de Vries (1556-1626) spent much of his life working for the most discerning royal courts of the age. A master of composition and technique, De Vries was relatively unknown until the J Paul Getty Museum's exhibition in 1999. This volume that presents the results of the technical study of 25 bronzes from the exhibition.
£47.50
The University of Chicago Press Echoes of the Past The Buddhist Cave Temples of
Book SynopsisThe exhibition Echoes of the Past draws upon the findings of a multiyear research project headed by Katherine R. Tsiang at the University of Chicago's Center for the Arts of East Asia. This exhibition catalog features entries with full-color illustrations of the works in the exhibition.
£34.00
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Collected Letters An Installation by Liu Jianhua
Book SynopsisAs a 50th anniversary gift to the museum, the Society for Asian Art has commissioned a major work by Liu Jianhua, one of China''s best-known contemporary installation artists. The work comprises approximately 2,500 pieces of white porcelain formed into letters of the English alphabet and components of Chinese characters, suspended from the ceiling of the second-floor loggia. The artist provides only the building blocks of words, leaving it to viewers to create meaning. The artwork''s location is especially apropos: the space offers an opportunity for dialogue with the original engraved literary quotations on the loggia''s walls, dating to the building''s previous incarnation as San Francisco''s Main Library.
£15.40
University of Nebraska Press Race Experts
Book SynopsisA compelling examination of Malvina Hoffman’s Races of Mankind. Comprised of 104 life-size bronzes, the Races of Mankind was the largest exhibit on race installed in a museum and one of the largest sculptural commissions ever undertaken by a single artist. Trade Review"Kim's book, well researched and eloquently presented, is a necessary corrective and intervention on the interwar period, when scientists and cultural anthropologists were theorizing race in new, more complex ways."—K. P. Buick, Choice"Throughout her book, Kim’s analysis of the intersection of 1930s “race experts”—scientists, artists, and lay persons—is rich and insightful and it has relevance for understanding the processes through which race is constructed today. It is worth a close reading."—Dr. Mary Jo Arnoldi, New England Quarterly“Race Experts performs a great service to students of American race and racism, revealing in detail the way that twentieth-century race ideology was produced at the nexus of formal systems of thought, aesthetics, and entertainment culture. . . . Meticulously researched and brilliantly narrated, the story Kim tells of the history of race stubbornly asserts itself as contemporary critique. Along the way, Kim makes plain the significant role that world’s fairs and international expositions have played in the staging of race and making of modernity.”—Tracey Jean Boisseau, associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Purdue University and author of White Queen: The Imperial Origins of American Feminist Identity “Innovative and well-documented. . . . Kim deftly explores such important questions as the agency of the artist and her models, scientific ideas of race, and the viewing public’s racialism. It is an ambitious argument in the best sense.”—Alice L. Conklin, Distinguished University Scholar and professor of history at Ohio State University “The question of how and why scientific expertise fails to dislodge popular, antithetical views is very important. Linda Kim’s argument that art served as a mediator is an interesting and original approach to the issue of how scientific knowledge is represented to the public and the vexed relationship between the two. This interdisciplinary work will likely attract readers in many fields, including art history, anthropology, history, and museum studies.”—Julia E. Liss, professor of history at Scripps CollegeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editors’ Introduction Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One. Racial Know-How: Expertise versus Common Sense Chapter Two. Mediations: Art in the Natural History Museum Chapter Three. Racial Portraiture: Between Typologies and Common Sense Chapter Four. Racial Homelands: Popular Geography and Local Races Chapter Five. Micro-Expertise: Passing for Indian, Passing for White Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£45.00
Getty Trust Publications Conserving Outdoor Sculptures – The Stark
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive and superbly illustrated account of the Getty Museum's research into outdoor sculpture conservation. When the J. Paul Getty Museum received twenty-eight sculptures created by a who's who of twentieth-century artists, it took on the responsibility for their preservation, interpretation, and long-term stewardship. Donated from the private collection of the late film producer Ray Stark and his wife, Fran, the sculptures thrust the Getty into the evolving field of outdoor sculpture conservation. To honour its responsibility, the Museum embarked on new research into the collection's materials - bronze, lead, ceramic, and painted metal - and construction techniques. This book presents the conservators' comprehensive account of the process. Chapters are organized around phases of the project rather than individual sculptures and address key issues facing anyone charged with caring for works of art displayed outdoors, including: organization and planning; installation and grounds management; scientific analyses; collaborating with artists; structural issues; mounts, paint, coatings, and patinas; and, long-term maintenance.
£58.50
Getty Trust Publications Bouchardon - Royal Artist of the Enlightenment
Book SynopsisOne of the most imaginative and fascinating artists of eighteenth-century France, Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) was instrumental in the transition from Rococo to Neoclassicism and in the artistic rediscovery of classical antiquity. Much celebrated in his time, Bouchardon created some of the most iconic images of the age of Louis XV. His oeuvre demonstrates a remarkable variety of themes (from copies after the antique to subjects of history and mythology, portraiture, anatomical studies, ornament, fountains and tombs), media (drawings, sculptures, medals, prints), and techniques (chalk, plaster, wax, terracotta, marble, bronze). This lavishly illustrated publication represents an unprecedented and thorough survey on this major and unique artist from the Age of Enlightenment, offering in-depth scholarship based on unpublished material detailing the subtle relationship between, as well as the relative autonomy of, the artist's two careers as a sculptor and a draftsman.Trade Review"With illustrations of excel-lent quality. Bouchardon is well served by this fine catalogue which, with its comprehensive survey of the life and work, should win new admirers for this innovative and most interesting artist."--Art Newspaper
£63.00
Getty Trust Publications The Conservation of Medieval Polychrome Wood
Book SynopsisMedieval polychrome wood sculptures are highly complex objects, bearers of histories that begin with their original carving and adornment and continue through long centuries of repainting, deterioration, restoration, and conservation. Abundantly illustrated, this book is the first in English to offer a comprehensive overview of the conservation of medieval painted wood sculpture for conservators, curators, and others charged with their care. Beginning with an illuminating discussion of the history, techniques, and meanings of these works, it continues with their examination and documentation, including chapters on the identification of both the wooden support and the polychromy itself-the paint layers, metal leaf, and other materials used for these sculptures. The volume also covers the many aspects of treatment: the process of determining the best approach; consolidation and adhesion of paint, ground, and support; overpaint removal and surface cleaning; and compensation. Four case studies on artworks in the collection of The Cloisters in New York, a comprehensive bibliography, and a checklist to aid in documentation complement the text.
£54.00
University of South Carolina Press A Dream and a Chisel: Louisiana Sculptor Angela
Book SynopsisA portrait of a young artist’s formative years studying sculpture in Paris, recounted in her own words.Angela Gregory is considered by many the doyenne of Louisiana sculpture and is a notable twentieth century American sculptor. In A Dream and a Chisel, Angela Gregory and Nancy Penrose explore Gregory’s desire, even as a teenager, to learn the art of cutting stone and to become a sculptor. Through sheer grit and persistence, Gregory achieved her dream of studying with French artist Antoine Bourdelle, one of Auguste Rodin’s most trusted assistants and described by critics of the era as France’s greatest living sculptor. In Bourdelle’s Paris studio, Gregory learned not only sculpting techniques but also how to live life as an artist. Her experiences in Paris inspired a prolific sixty-year career in a field dominated by men.After returning to New Orleans from Paris, Gregory established her own studio in 1928 and began working in earnest. She created bas-relief profiles for the Louisiana State Capitol built in 1932 and sculpted the Bienville Monument, a bronze statue honoring the founder of New Orleans, in the 1950s. Her works also include two other monuments, sculptures incorporated into buildings, portrait busts, medallions, and other forms that appear in museums and public spaces throughout the state. She was the first Louisiana woman sculptor to achieve international recognition, and, at the age of thirty-five, became one of the few women recognized as a fellow of the National Sculpture Society. Gregory’s work appeared in group shows at many prestigious museums and in exhibitions, including the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon d’Automne in Paris, the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the National Collection of Fine Arts in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.This memoir is based on Penrose’s oral history interviews with Gregory, as well as letters and diaries compiled before Gregory’s death in 1990. A Dream and a Chisel demonstrates the importance of mentorships, offers a glimpse into the realities of an artist’s life and studio, and captures the vital early years of an extraordinary woman who carved a place for herself in Louisiana’s history.
£32.36
Michigan State University Press The Spirit of the City: Marshall Fredericks Sculptures in Detroit
Book SynopsisMarshall Fredericks’s Detroit sculptures capture the spirit of the Motor City and its dramatic transformation from the 1950s to the present day. In this book, Janna Jones analyzes eight of these enormous works of public art, situating them and their structures in metro Detroit’s distinctive midcentury milieu and bringing much-needed critical attention to this sculptor’s oeuvre. Sadly, some of these artworks have suffered along with the city as it shrank from its postwar zenith. Both the buildings and the sculptures erected for them deserve to be rescued from neglect, and then maintained and preserved for the future.
£58.08
Texas A & M University Press Capturing Nature: The Cement Sculpture of Dionicio Rodríguez
Book SynopsisOver a period of some twenty years, Mexican-born artisan Dionicio Rodríguez created imaginative sculptures of reinforced concrete that imitated the natural forms and textures of trees and rocks. He worked in eight different states from 1924 through the early 1950s but spent much of his early career in San Antonio, where several of his creations have become beloved landmarks. More than a dozen of Rodríguez’s works have been included on the National Register of Historic Places. Patsy Pittman Light has spent a decade documenting the trabajo rústico (""rustic work"") of Rodríguez, along with its antecedents in Europe and Mexico, and the subsequent work of those Rodríguez trained in San Antonio. Rodríguez’s unique and unusual art will fascinate those new to it and delight those to whom it is familiar. San Antonio sites such as the bus stop on Broadway, the faux bois bridge in Brackenridge Park, and the ""rocks"" on the Miraflores Gate at the San Antonio Museum of Art, along with the Old Mill at T. R. Pugh Memorial Park in North Little Rock and Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, are just a few of the locations covered in this volume celebrating the life and work of a Latino artisan. Students and devotees of Texas and Southwestern art will welcome this book and its long-overdue appreciation of this artist. Additionally, this book will commend itself to those interested in Latino studies, art history, and folklore.
£22.36
University of South Carolina Press Brookgreen Gardens: Ever Changing. Simply
Book SynopsisAn oasis of art and nature, Brookgreen Gardens is America's first public sculpture garden and largest collection of American figurative sculpture. Founded in 1931 by Archer Milton Huntington and Anna Hyatt Huntington, its lush South Carolina coastal location is an exquisite setting for the more than two thousand works by four hundred twenty-five artists-including more than one hundred sculptures and other works by Anna Huntington, many placed in the gardens she designed. In 1984, Brookgreen was designated as a National Historic Landmark, highlighting the number of women sculptors whose work is presented in the collection, as well as the significance of the work of Anna Huntington. Today, Brookgreen has become a cultural institution unlike any other, blending sculpture, historic sites, botanical gardens, and the Lowcountry Zoo. As Brookgreen begins its ninetieth year, this volume celebrates the art, nature, and history ensconced in its 9,127 acres. More than one hundred fifty color photographs; an introduction by president and CEO, Page Kiniry; and a foreword by its chairman of the board, Dick Rosen, bring Brookgreen Gardens to life on the page.
£40.80
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Motherhood and Meaning in Medieval Sculpture:
Book SynopsisAn examination of women as mothers in medieval French sculpture. What can medieval sculptural representations of women tell us about medieval women's experiences of motherhood? Presumably the work of male sculptors, working for clerical patrons, these sculptures are unlikely to have been shaped by women's maternal experiences during their production. Once produced, however, their beholders would have included women who were mothers and potential mothers, thus opening a space between the sculptures' intended meanings and other meanings liable to be produced by these women as they brought their own interests and concerns to these works of art. Building on theories of reception and response, this book focuses on interactions between women asbeholders and a range of sculptures made in France in the twelfth through sixteenth centuries, aiming to provide insight into women's experiences of motherhood; particular sculptures considered include the Annunciation and Visitation from Reims cathedral, the femme-aux-serpents from Moissac, the transi of Jeanne de Bourbon-Vendome, the Eve from Autun, and a number of French Gothic Virgin and Child sculptures. Marian Bleeke is Associate Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art and Design at Cleveland State University.Trade ReviewThere is much to admire about Bleeke's energetic and wide-ranging study. A great strength of her book is her belief that public sculpture could shape peoples' thoughts and behaviors, and that it could do so in ways not intended by the designers of the program. * SPECULUM *The impressive assembly of modern scholarship on the broad subject of female reception and experience is evident. * ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Motherhood and Meaning in Medieval Sculpture Motherhood as Transformation: From Annunciation to Visitation at Reims Motherhood as Monstrosity: The Moissac Femme-aux-serpents and the Transi of Jeanne de Bourbon-Vendome Resurrecting Lazarus: The Eve from Saint-Lazare at Autun Visualizing Parturition: Devotional Sculptures of the Virgin and Child Afterword: Motherhood and Meaning: Medieval Sculpture and Contemporary Art Bibliography Index
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