Sculpture & Installation

This is the first full-length, English-language study of eleventh-century figural sculpture produced in Dalmatia and Croatia. Challenging the dependency on stylistic analysis in previous scholarship, Magdalena Skoblar contextualises the visual presence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354472381Author Alka PandeFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789810933692Author IfengspageFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Gingko Press, IncPublisher Gingko Press, IncWeight(grams) 1723g

World Share: Installations by Pascale Marthine Tayou gives us a large-scale immersive environment that combines the artist's sculpture, drawings, and poetry with Fowler artworks. Assembled from a stunning diversity of materials and found objects, Tayou's...

This book awaited artist's manual is the first definitive sourcebook of its kind. In it, William Veasey teaches decorative decoy artists to accurately paint the details of waterfowl and gamebird bills and feet, as well as those of birds of prey. Bills...

This is a translation of the 1802 introduction to studio practices for sculpture students by Francesco Carradori (1747-1824), a sculptor, restorer, and instructor of sculpture at the Accademia in Florence from 1786 to 1821. Carradori's instructions are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908175342Author CYPIFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CYPI PressPublisher CYPI Press

This fascinating book tells the story of a little-known masterpiece by the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822)-the statue of George Washington for the North Carolina State House, delivered in 1821 and destroyed by fire ten years later. It brings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888396181Author David HancockFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919654839Author D. AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780970340320Author Jerry KofflerFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint John D. Calandra Italian-American InstitutePublisher John D. Calandra Italian-American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857248561Author Jihan JangFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1240g

Nothing is more challenging to the carver than carving a realistic face. To help in the process Terry Kramer begins with modeling clay. With this pliable medium, he leads the reader through the exploration of the planes and features of the face. In a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857247946Author Javier MolinsFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1080g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612546223Author Jennifer TroiceFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Brown Books Publishing GroupPublisher Brown Books Publishing Group

A reverence for nature and a desire to further enliven the surrounding trails, pastures, and woods inspired Ground/work-the Clark Art Institute's first outdoor exhibition-which this book records and situates within the broader context of contemporary...

The 1985 and 1986 Ward Foundation World Championship Carving Competition bird sculptures are documented in this large and profusely illustrated volume. The Best in World title is bestowed each year to bird carvings in the Decorative Lifesize, Floating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870709074Author Peter ReedFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 4000g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857247847Author Dominique StellaFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 220g

How do students develop a personal style from their instruction in a visual arts program? Women Artists on the Leading Edge explores this question as it describes the emergence of an important group of young women artists from an innovative post-war...

This second volume in the Carver's Handbook series gives instructions for carvers to make and paint wooden figures of a tiger, an American goldfinch, and a wood mouse in the round and a great horned owl in relief. The instructions are given with...

You've got to crack some eggs to make an omelet, and that's just what author Tom Wolfe has done. Tom finds out what is inside those wooden eggs found at craft stores and woodworking suppliers. This an interesting and informative book goes from the blank...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857247342Author Luca NannipieriFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 120g

Ballo Rebora introduces carvers to a new subject, the Mexican bullfight. From a wood blank to the finished figures, Ballo guides readers step-by-step through all the carving and painting processes required to create a humorous, confident, or even smug...

Whereas 12th-century pilgrims flocked to the church of St-Lazare in Autun to visit the relics of its patron saint, present-day pilgrims journey there to admire its superb sculpture, said to have been created by Gislebertus. These two cults, of sculptor...

The first study of its kind, featuring over 80 important artists who have lived in Florida. With its natural beauty, distinctiveness, and warmth, Florida has attracted an abundance of artists for centuries. While fine painters have been featured in art...

Themes of the American West have been enduringly popular, and The American West in Bronze features 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...

With a career spanning more than sixty years, Anthony Caro (b. 1924) is one of Britain's most acclaimed and best-known sculptors. Caro: Close Up accompanies the first survey exhibition of his work in an American museum since his retrospective at the...

Lesley Dill is an American artist working at the intersection of language and fine art in printmaking, sculpture, installation and performance, exploring the power of words to cloak and reveal the psyche. Dill transforms the emotions of the writings of...

Richly illustrated, Early Gothic Column-Figure Sculpture in France is a comprehensive investigation of church portal sculpture installed between the 1130s and the 1170s. At more than twenty great churches, beginning at the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis and...

Working in full-size is a daunting prospect for most carvers. But, fortunately, some creatures are made small enough to be manageable. So it is with elves. These delightful mischievous characters of myth are traditionally very small, and have a...

41 exciting, creative new Santa patterns in one book! 41 Santa Patterns for Woodcarvers provides beginning wood carvers with projects which they can accomplish with a minimum of tools and frustration. For the intermediate and advanced carvers it offers a...

Do animals have their own Santa Claus? One look at these creations by Tom Wolfe and you will believe that they do. Santimals capture all the charm of the season in a new and delightful way. Tom takes the reader step-by-step through the carving of the...

Once again Tom Wolfe brings his artistry, skill, and wit to the mythic figures of bygone days: The Wild West. Taken separately, the cowboy, gambler, bartender, sheriff, and soiled dove offer interesting challenges to the carver. Together they make an...

After the great success of Santa and His Friends, Tom Wolfe presents a group of traditional Santas that have been found in American Art, literature, and advertising since the 1860s and have a warm place in the imaginations of children and the memories of...

In Shorebird Carving, Rosalyn Daisey shares her artistic insight and skill in a way that is at once instructive and beautiful. As with her previous works, Songbird Carving and Songbird Carving II, the reader will find step-by-step carving methods for...

Wood carvers now have patterns and complete instructions for making life-like images of a Cardinal bird, trotting horse, standing deer, and an iIndian with headdress neckerchief slide. These projects are taught in this third volume of the successful...

Four hundred stunning color pictures of world-class carvings accompany an authoritative series of interviews with the world's finest wood sculptors. An indispensable addition to the libraries of novice and expert carvers; certain to become a collector's...

Pol Bury (1922-2005) was a painter, sculptor, jewelry designer, writer, and graphic artist, but is perhaps best known to the general public for his fountains and sculpture in public spaces throughout the world. Acclaimed as one of the first proponents of...

The 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. His interest in the flattening of forms led...