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Sculpture: Stone, Marble, Bronze, Ice..

Sculpture Since 1945 (History of Art S.)
In recent decades sculpture has arguably become the dominant art form in the world. In this ground-breaking account of the development of post-War sculpture Andrew Causey examines innovative and avant-garde works in relation to contemporary events, festivals, commissions, the marketplace, and the changing functions of museums. He explores the use of everyday objects and the importance of sculptural context, discussing figurative and non-figurative works, Anti-form, Minimalism, experimental form, Earth Art, landscape sculpture, installation, and Performance Art. The holistic picture of post-War sculpture which emerges establishes for the first time the key events and themes round which future debate will centre

European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century
The National Gallery's collection of nineteenth-century European sculpture is dominated by 37 works by Auguste Rodin and more than 30 portrait busts by Honore Daumier. Works by Antoine-Louis Barye, Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, Paul Gaugin, Theodore Gericault, and others are examined. All works have been newly photographed, highlighting the masterly execution of the marbles and the rich patinas of bronzes

Italian Gothic Sculpture: C. 1250-c. 1400
Moskowitz examines the sculpture produced in a variety of genres and media throughout the Italic peninsula, from the late medieval period until the beginning of the early modern era. Arguing that Italian Gothic sculpture is neither a provincial offshoot of northern Gothic art, nor a mere preparation for the Early Renaissance, she demonstrates that this body of art works is distinguished by a unique visual language and syntax. Tracing the developments of Italian sculpture, from Nicola Pisano's arrival in Tuscany around 1260 through the end of the fourteenth century, this volume surveys developments in Central Italy as well as those in Naples, Compania, Lombardy and the Veneto. This study incorporates the most recent scholarly findings, including archival and archaeological discoveries, and restoration and conservation efforts. The book also addresses broad questions of politics, patronage, and piety

Sculpture, 1900-45: After Rodin (Oxford History of Art S.)
It is over 25 years since a concise history of modern sculpture was published. This new book takes up that challenge, while broadening the scope to include traditional as well as avant-garde work. The author offers seven broad themes to help explain the nature of sculpture's rapid evolution in this period, using Auguste Rodin as a point of reference, and setting the whole against a broadly historical backdrop

Ice Sculpting the Modern Way
Step-by-step photographs take the reader through each sequential step in producing highly innovative, but practical, ice sculptures. Whether you are a novice or an accomplished artist, this book features the most current techniques in 2003, including power tools and ice fusion for a unique presentation. The authors discuss the art of sculpting in an insightful and instructive manner with exercises for the you to improve your technique. A comprehensive glossary of terms helps the reader learn the jargon of the field

Henry Moore: Sculpting the Twentieth Century
This exhibition catalogue...is really magnificent. Covering the whole of his career, it brings together sculptures, drawings and prints to give a clear idea of his developing style and the impact it had on the arts of the 20th century. - The Bookseller

Living Materials:
A Sculptor's Handbook
Covers clay, plaster building, mold-making, cement, stone carving, wood, plastic, metals, welding, bronze casting, and sand casting

The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany
A detail examination of the craftsmanship and lives of German woodcarvers from 1475 to 1525 discusses their artistic styles, techniques of carving, and place in society

Prayers in Stone: Greek Architectural Sculpture (C.600-100B.C.E.) (Sather Classical Lectures)
The meaning of architectural sculpture is essential to understanding ancient Greek culture. The embellishment of buildings was common for the ancient Greeks, and often provocative. This text provides a tour of many dimensions of Greek public buildings, especially temples, tombs, and treasuries

Rodin: The Shape of Genius
This reinterpretation of Rodin's life and times draws on archives and letters to disentangle the facts of this artist's life from the many myths that have grown up around him. The book provides new interpretations of the motivations, execution and reception of Rodin's artistic creations

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War and Monument in Nineteenth-century America
An exploration of how the history of slavery and its violent end in the American Civil War was told in monuments. This text shows that the greatest era of monument building in American history arose amidst struggles over race, gender and collective memory

Bronze Casting (Manual of Techniques S.)
This is a practical and comprehensive guide to the traditional craft of bronze casting. It describes how a sculpture is cast into bronze, following the example of a modelled head through the whole casting process. As well as demonstrating clay, wax and plaster modelling and their casting methods, it details many quick methods of making sculptures utilizing casting, modelling and construction techniques. The book includes ideas for making sculptures and three projects provide a step-by-step guide to making sculptures using the techniques covered in the book

High Romanesque Sculpture in the Duchy of Aquitaine, C.1090-1140 (Clarendon Studies in the History of Art S.)
Anat Tcherikover traces a regional school of Romanesque sculpture which formed against the background of the powerful feudal principality of Aquitaine. A combination of political prominence, economic prosperity, and a keen response to ecclesiastical reform made the school one of the most innovative of its time. Based on original research, this book contains many excellent photographs

Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics: A Close Embrace of the Earth
Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) is known for his stone and bronze sculpture, his gardenlike installations in public spaces, and his furniture designs. But no less important, is his work in clay. This text presents his ceramics and highlights his struggles with cultural identity

Rodin:
Sculpture and Drawings
Traces the development of the artistic techniques and subjects of Auguste Rodin and examines the cross-fertilization between his drawing and sculpture.

A Host of Devils: The History and Context of the Making of Makonde Spirit Sculpture
A Host of Devils provides an in-depth account of the background, origin and development of the spirit figure sculptures which emerged during colonial times among the Makonde people of Mozambique. The creation of such works is shown to connect with a regional system of knowledge and practice, within which spirits function as a format for expression. The book describes the ways in which the sculpture emerged, as well as the author's experience of learning how to carve

Cellini and the Principles of Sculpture
Benvenuto Cellini is an incomparable source on the nature of art-making in sixteenth century Italy. A practicing artist who worked in gold, bronze, marble, and on paper, he was also the author of treatises, discourses, poems and letters about his own work and the works of contemporaries. Collectively, these works show Cellini to be an authority on the reigning ideas about the virtues and properties of artists' materials, and a vivid witness to the poetically charged processes of transforming these materials into meaningful forms. In this study, Michael Cole analyzes the media in which Cellini worked as well as his theoretical writings. Examining how Cellini and those around him viewed the act of sculpture in the late Renaissance, he situates Cellini's views in the context of the history of art, science, poetics, and ethics. Cole demonstrates Cellini's continuing relevance to the broader study of artistic theory and practice in his time

Portraits of the Masters: Bronze Sculptures of the Tibetan Buddhist Lineages
Oliver Hoare's impressive collection of Tibetan portrait bronzes is presented together with an in-depth history of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in this sumptuous oversize volume (11x13). The volume contains detailed chapters by six specialists in Tibetan art, religion, and culture describing the successive schools. Color plates of the portrait

The Portrait in Clay:
Technical, Artistic and Philosophical Journey Toward Understanding the Dynamic and Creative Forces in Portrait Sculpture
Simulating a workshop studio course, this book provides action-photography sequences that enable the reader to observe every step a master sculptor takes in building a portrait in clay