Sculpture & Installation

With clear, concise instructions and 345 detailed photos, Ron Hampton takes the reader through every step required to turn and finish wooden works of art on the mini-lathe. Eight separate projects are turned and finished here, including a cherry goblet,...

A feast for the eyes and an entertaining, erudite read, this book opens with an illustrated survey of the 120 doges who led the Venetian Republic before continuing with a detailed survey of the incredible array of sculptures and monuments that...

The first book-length examination of the clay models and creative process of the preeminent neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova "A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated catalog."-Karen Wilkin, Wall Street Journal The most celebrated sculptor of the...

How can we give data physical form?And how might those creations change the ways we experience data and the stories it can tell?Making with Data: Physical Design and Craft in a Data-Driven World provides a snapshot of the diverse practices contemporary...

Kamila is a cornucopia of dreadfulness. Her works at once beautiful and terrible, each piece like being tickled by Death's cold little fingers, every bewitching creation a world I want to know more about. - Brom Welcome to the mind of Canadian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780797469259Author Stuart DanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Stuart DanksPublisher Stuart DanksWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 8mm

'You will have a moment of quiet delight and a mood of introspection to carry you away.' Edmund de Waal Prized by collectors from East to West, Japanese netsuke are tiny objects of wonder that originated as utilitarian accessories for traditional...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857248592Author Louisa MacmillanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 2000g

First opened in 1873, the Victoria and Albert Museum's Cast Courts were purpose built to house copies of architecture and sculpture from around the world. They contain some of the Museum's largest objects, including casts of Trajan's Column (shown in two...

A celebration of artworks featuring books and readers from throughout history, for the delight of art lovers and bibliophiles As every book tells a story, every book in art is part of an intriguing, engaging, and relatable image. Books are depicted as...

Definitive monograph on America's most challenging and influential artist Los-Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b.1945) creates Disneyesque installations, sculptures of animal/vegetable/human hybrids and slapstick performances in a purge of a national...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913898496Author Peter SishtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Pixel Tweaks PublicationsPublisher Pixel Tweaks PublicationsWeight(grams)...

A beautiful book on the famed Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas The Chinati Foundation, a world-famous destination for large-scale contemporary art, was founded by Donald Judd (1928-1994) to preserve and present a select number of permanent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906663728Author Malcolm ThurlbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd

Carve lifelike animal-handled canes and walking sticks with power tools. Over 180 clear color photos and concise, informative text take the reader through all the tools, techniques, and individual steps, from carving the blank and setting the eyes to...

The ultimate illustrated guide to the sculpture parks and trails of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. This exciting guide to the sculpture parks, trails and gardens of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales is the perfect book if you like art and...

For many people there is no more satisfying expression of Greek art than its sculpture. It was the first, the only ancient art to break free from 'conceptual' conventions for representing men and animals, and to explore consciously how art might imitate...

Part performance art and part engineering, sand sculpture has become amazingly sophisticated as artists explore the boundaries of their skill with sand as a medium. Within a very short time, a sculptor can create an awesome, thought-provoking experience...

Site-Specific Art charts the development of an experimental art form in an experimental way. Nick Kaye traces the fascinating historical antecedents of today's installation and performance art, while also assembling a unique documentation of contemporary...

For more than thirty-five years, Antony Gormley has sought to explore the relationship of the human body to space and to reinvigorate and test the potential of sculpture with dramatic outdoor sitings. This definitive monograph, compiled in close...

An in-depth exploration of the pathbreaking works of Nancy Holt, a pioneering practitioner of Conceptual and Land Art Nancy Holt: Inside/Outside takes a journey through the artist's key experiments in visual art presenting works never seen before,...

This is the story of William Mitchell's life - his career and body of work from an early age to a life of art with international commissions offered 80 years later. Bill's zest for life, his love of London, his determination to cover the world with...

Here is a new and exciting aspect of wood turning, similar to traditional style turning except for gaps left between each segment. Step-by-step instructions and color photographs illustrate a basic vase project that can be completed in a weekend. You...

This book showcases and puts into historical context a host of sculpted works created in the 1920s and 1930s in the decorative vernacular defined loosely today as 'Art Deco'. Whether designed as free-standing statuary for the domestic market or...

The first major monograph on sculptor Ronald Moody, exploring his legacy and impact through his key artistic relationships, networks and influences, and his relationship with nature, humanity and spirituality. Ronald Moody (1900-1984) was a leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782373721539Author Thomas HouseagoFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint DilectaPublisher DilectaWeight(grams) 2440gDimensions(mm) 361mm * 279mm * 30mm

Winner of the Holyer an Gof Award 2022 (Leisure and Lifestyle) An illustrated guide to one hundred of the finest early Cornish stone crosses, dating from around AD 900 to 1300. These characteristic features of the Cornish landscape are splendid...

Designed as a companion to the hugely successful monograph Noah Davis, this volume offers further insight into the impact and legacy of the revolutionary Los Angeles artist and activist. ---------- "Embedding his dreams on canvas and in the community,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262026598Author Nicholas BaumeFormat HardbackPage Count 143Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 165mm * 13mm

Revel in the power of human creativity with this completely revised and expanded edition of Burning Man: Art on Fire, illustrated with over 250 gorgeous color photos. For one week a year, a remote desert lakebed in Nevada becomes Black Rock City, the...

This is the seventeenth volume in the series the Public Sculpture of Britain, part of the PMSA National Recording Project, which will eventually cover the whole of the country. The introduction considers the ways in which the rural and urban landscapes...

Stone Talks brings together poems and four talks/essays by noted poet Alyson Hallett on the subject of stones, rocks, somatics and our relationship with our environment. The book invites us to listen again to the world around us - the world of rocks and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902902371Author George LegendreFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Architectural Association PublicationsPublisher Architectural Association Publications

Join Joe Gartman, culture columnist for Italia! Magazine, on a journey among 80 of Rome's celebrated fountains, and find a more intimate way of experiencing the Eternal City. On foot with book in hand, or simply in imagination, each chapter takes...

'You should know that men like Benvenuto, unique in their profession, need not be subject to the law.' Thus spoke Pope Paul III on learning that Cellini had murdered a fellow artist, so great was his reputation in Renaissance Florence. A renowned...

Gego infused her art with architecture and engineering to create unique works of delicate suspense Accompanying the first major museum retrospective exhibition of Gego's work in the US in more than 15 years, this expansive, definitive catalog charts...

The definitive biography of a fascinating and enigmatic figure'Succeeds in every way as one of the most readable, fascinating and informative documents, not just on an artist, but on art and artists in general' WASHINGTON TIMES'The most moving biography...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988111001Author Ken LumFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Concordia UniversityPublisher Concordia University

When observing an especially beautiful mobile, beginning artists often think, "Wow, I want to make one like THAT!" If you have stood under a mobile by Alexander Calder and entertained such thoughts, this book will help you "make one like that." This...