Sculpture & Installation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788887029611Author Anna AnguissolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Fondazione PradaPublisher Fondazione Prada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857248202Author Michael ShortFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 420g

The first comprehensive study of an important Italian Renaissance bronze-caster by a leading authority. 'This monograph is a testament to the work of Charles Avery, who has put Il Bresciano on the map as a leading Italian Renaissance sculptor... Avery...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578446929Author Phil WeidmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Animal Media Group LLCPublisher Animal Media Group LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556435751Author George QuashaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646874487Author Clothilde BullenFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint AGWAPublisher AGWA

In the 1930s sculptors began to heat and shape metal directly and a new type of sculpture and artist emerged. This revised and expanded edition retains all the techniques and inspiration to help artists find the answers they needed for creating direct...

Though long recognized as one of the most beautiful works from the second half of the thirteenth century, the magnificent sculptural program of the reverse facade at Reims Cathedral has received little in the way of scholarly attention. Interpreting the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262044868Author Peter WeibelFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Electro - mobility is the number one topic when it comes to our mobility in the future. What does the vision of the BMW Group, Germany's main pioneer in the field, l ook like? For the first time providing extensive insight into BMW's workshop of...

Newly published in paperback to coincide with the Barbara Hepworth retrospective exhibition at Tate Britain in 2015, this fascinating book combines a fully illustrated catalogue of the sculptor's surviving prototypes in plaster (and a number also in...

In 1955 seventy-four original plasters recording sculptures by Edgar Degas (1834-1917) were moved to the old Valsuani foundry in Paris only to reappear in France in 2004. These plasters are now being published for the first time, presenting new...

Open House discusses the topic of temporary housing in architecture, art, design and humanitarian aid. The phenomenon of tiny houses fascinates and is currently trending in various media. In times of large migratory movements from poor to rich countries...

The Artangel Trust has been credited with providing artists with all the money and logistics they need to create one-off dream projects. An independent art commissioning agency based in London, it has operated since 1985 and is responsible for producing...

There is currently a revival in the art of stone sculpture-along contemporary lines-of the Golden Age in Greece and the Renaissance in Europe. Many noted twentieth-century sculptors are now working directly in stone. This book explains how to create...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861717504Author William MalpasFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Crescent Moon PublishingPublisher Crescent Moon PublishingWeight(grams)...

William Reid Dick (1878-1961) was one of a generation of British sculptors air-brushed out of art history by the Modernist critics of the late twentieth century. This long-overdue monograph adds to the recent revival of interest in this group of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857247564Author Carolyn Christov-BakargievFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783864420993Author Philipp KaiserFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbHPublisher Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

The Easter Sepulchre is the English form of a monument known throughout Western Europe in the Middle Ages as the sepulchrum domini, the tomb of the Lord, the monument associated specifically with the commemorative Easter rites. The Easter Sepulchre stood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783829609944Author Thomas KelleinFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbHPublisher Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH

The first book to connect the history of Funk Art to contemporary ceramic practice. Funk You Too! arrives at a moment when clay has unprecedented currency in the art world as a sculptural medium. It is the first book to connect the history of Funk Art to...

By foregrounding the overlaps between sculpture and the decorative, this volume of essays offers a model for a more integrated form of art history writing. Through distinct case studies, from a seventeenth-century Danish altarpiece to contemporary...

A premier metalsmith in the early 20th century in France, Edgar Brandt (1880-1960) designed and fabricated some of the most beautiful architectural and decorative ironwork of his age. This elegant book recounts his life and work with scholarly text and...

Leaving fingerprints and tool marks behind, a Sao Paulo artist evokes the cycles of the cosmos This volume takes an expansive view of the bold and influential practice of Brazilian artist Erika Verzutti (born 1971), surveying more than 60 pieces made...

Monuments and Myths is the first publication to examine the intersecting careers of Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French, the leading American sculptors of the Gilded Age. With rich new thinking and stunning photographs, the catalogue...

One of the most important artists of his generation, Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) creates immersive environments and spectacular public installations that probe the cognitive aspects of vision and transform the act of looking into a social experience...

This book grows out of many requests we have received for animal carving books in general, and for Tom Wolfe animals in particular. His raccoons and hounds have graced the pages of his previous books. His bears, in their original form and as...

This inspiring and beautifully illustrated book chronicles the lives of seventeen pioneering women sculptors who dared to speak their truths about inequality and injustice and overcame obstacles of gender and race in the last hundred and fifty years. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581152043Author Monona RossolFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Allworth Press,U.S.Publisher Allworth Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 499g

Arman was a US-naturalised French painter. This book covers the first twenty years of Arman's artistic production, from the Accumulations of industrial objects and series products to the Poubelles, documenting consumer society's waste; from the famous...

This text questions the Hellenistic dating of many famous monuements, based on careful examination of the evidence.About the AuthorBrunilde Sismondo Ridgway is the Rhys Carpenter Professor Emerita of classical and near Eastern archaeology at Bryn Mawr...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924304675Author Padma KaimalFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams)...

The invention of the friction match in England in the 1830s helped to improve the daily lives of people in ways frequently overlooked. Match holders made their appearance by the 1850s in nearly endless, striking variety. Denis B. Alsford has complied...

What is sculpture's primordial nature, its essence, and how should it be redefined? Should sculpture serve society? Why not objects, rather than the human figure, as sculpture's subject? How and what do we see? Why the pedestal? What determines...

Theorizing Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture significantly advances the complex study of Anglo-Saxon carved monuments, such as the Ruthwell Cross, by adopting more explicit theoretical approaches to the subject. Scholars included here are explicit in...

Richly-illustrated consideration of the meaning of the carvings of non-human beings, from centaurs to eagles, found in ecclesiastical settings. Representations of monsters and the monstrous are common in medieval art and architecture, from the...

This generously illustrated book provides a complete overview of current knowledge about the sculptures of the Parthenon and suggests new interpretations of the ancient temple's sculptural creations. Margaretha Lagerloef steps back from viewing the...

Creates a typology for the decorative and informative Roman historical reliefsBook InformationISBN 9780472081714Author Mario TorelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004081284Author J. DorigFormat PaperbackPage Count 25Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 490g