Sculpture & Installation

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...

Engagingly written and colorfully illustrated, The Experience of Modern Sculpture leads us to understand, and take pleasure in, the sculpture of the 20th and 21st centuries. It helps us see the different facets of modernism: the evolution of the figure,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854420674Author Ian NorburyFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Stobart Davies LtdPublisher Stobart Davies Ltd

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905829563Author Susan HillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP RingierWeight(grams) 380g

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...

Damien Hirst enters into creative conversation with the many masterpieces of the Galleria Borghese In an extraordinary cultural undertaking, British artist Damien Hirst (born 1965) has launched an intense and unfiltered interaction with the works of...

This tapestry of primary sources is an essential primer on sculpture and its makers. Modern Sculpture presents a selection of manifestos, documents, statements, articles, and interviews from more than ninety sculptors, including a diverse selection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904563068Author Patsy CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Trolley BooksPublisher Trolley Books

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912722914Author Haseeb IqbalFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Rough Trade BooksPublisher Rough Trade Books

Harald Szeemann is associated with some of the most important artistic developments of the postwar era. A passionate advocate of avant-garde movements like conceptualism and post minimalism, he collaborated with artists such as Joseph Beuys, Bruce...

Pedro de Mena y Medrano (1628-1688) is the most highly regarded master of Spanish Baroque sculpture, on a par with his contemporaries, the great seventeenth-century painters Velazquez, Zurbaran and Murillo. Mena's contributions to Spanish Baroque...

The native American face has long fascinated artists in every medium. Its strong features and deep character present a challenge and an opportunity for visual expression. In this new book, Terry Kramer offers the wood carver a method for creating...

Seven decades of incredibly dynamic sculpture in bronze and steel from the Chicago virtuoso-with full-color plates, archival materials and much more Sculptor Richard Hunt was only 35 years old at the time of his 1971 retrospective exhibition at...

A critical reexamination of Carpeaux's bust Why Born Enslaved! and other nineteenth-century antislavery images-this book interrogates the treatment of the Black figure as a malleable political symbol and locus of exoticized beauty This critical...

An expansive collection of texts providing insight into the inner life, creativity, and practice of the innovative American artist Anne Truitt Spanning more than fifty years, this comprehensive volume collects the letters, journal entries, interviews,...

These four-legged friends of man have been a favorite subject for carving since the earliest years. From hunting dogs to the family pet, dogs have a special place in the hearts of people and Tom Wolfe manages to capture their personality in his own...

Louis Francois Roubiliac, the most compelling sculptor in eighteenth-century Britain, was responsible for many complex and dramatic monuments that can be seen in Westminster Abbey and churches throughout the country. This book is not only the first...

In October 2018 Cornelia Parker's Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) lands in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. This meticulous and unsettling installation - first shown on the roof of The Metropolitan Museum of Art against the skyline of...

A revelatory exploration of wood's many material, ecological, and symbolic meanings in the religious art of medieval Germany "A rewarding study that is full of new insights."-Jeremy Warren, Art Newspaper In late medieval Germany, wood was a material...

Magnificent and haunting, the tall cedar sculptures called totem poles have become a distinctive symbol of the native people of the Northwest Coast. The powerful carvings of the vital and extraordinary beings such as Sea Bear, Thunderbird and Cedar Man...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857250083Author Donna WingateFormat HardbackPage Count 225Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1640g

Providing the first thorough study of sculptural portraiture in 18th-century Britain, this important book challenges both the idea that portrait necessarily implies painting and the assumption that Enlightenment thought is manifest chiefly in French art...

Interactive installation art is an important medium of artistic expression, generated alongside the development of technology and art throughout the 21st century. This book includes a number of interactive installation projects, dedicating particular...

Sculpture is just a word, an English word, which elicits an image in the mind's eye. Sculpture is a European idea. In China statues, stele and other figural objects were made for millennia but not valued or collected as Sculpture. There was no Sculpture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953501960Author Peter C. AmsdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint ASAT ProductionsPublisher ASAT ProductionsWeight(grams) 406g

The first comprehensive account in English of Renaissance Spain's preeminent sculptor Alonso Berruguete (c. 1488-1561) revolutionized the arts of Renaissance Spain with a dramatic style of sculpture that reflected the decade or more he had spent in Italy...

Trimpin, the sound sculptor and composer, has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships; been the subject of a full-length documentary film and a profile in The New Yorker magazine; been included in hundreds of shows, performances, and new music...

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...

New site-specific works by Phyllida Barlow fill the Royal Academy's Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries in early 2019. This accompanying publication provides a lively account of the artist's role in modern British sculpture. The British sculptor...

The Frenchman Claude Champy (*1944) brings together man and the cosmos in his ceramics. In his studio, mechanical, geological, and chemical processes fuse to form a ceramic total work of art - guided by the barely visible yet influential human gesture...

An innovative analysis of 1960s abstract sculpture that draws on transgender studies and queer theory Now back in print, Abstract Bodies was the first book to bridge the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies with the discipline of art history...

Art flourished in France to an exciting and unprecedented degree in the 19th century. Sculpture was a part of this fantastic explosion of creative genius with such artistic giants as Rodin, Barye, d'Angers and Carpeaux. At the same time technological...

Barlow's final works in dialogue with Eduardo Chillida's house and museum This publication documents the exhibition of the work of acclaimed British sculptor Phyllida Barlow (1944-2023) at the Chillida Leku Museum in Spain. Many of the works were...

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

Scenes from nature spring to life in Mike Doyle's latest curated collection of LEGO art, Beautiful LEGO: Wild! From botanical marvels to adorable critters such as a sea otter family made from 3,500 LEGO pieces every page is sure to delight the artist and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943330212Author Gingko PressFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Gingko PressPublisher Gingko Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854420827Author Frederick OughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Stobart Davies LtdPublisher Stobart Davies LtdDimensions(mm) 276mm * 216mm * 14mm

Vibrant colour was essential to the paintings of the American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), and when he began exploring outdoor sculpture in the late 1970s, vivid hues-often achieved through the use of recently developed industrial paints and...