Lew French is a master stonemason who finds and gathers hundreds of individual stones to create a single fireplace or an outdoor stone wall that looks like it had been there for hundreds of years.
Con cada uno de sus libros, el filósofo e historiador del arte Georges Didi-Huberman profundiza la problemática de las imágenes en el mundo contemporáneo.
Una severa estatua en una plaza, el piadoso vitral de una iglesia, la simpática efeméride en la portada de una revista infantil representan objetos portadores de significado social, diseñados para transmitir una determinada impronta donde el pasado se temporaliza en un presente épico, perpetuo e inamovible.
Lo que este texto y su autor Jaime Reyes nos presenta, es un fragmento del camino creativo de José Balcells en la escultura; donde el escultor concibe la obra en relación a un nombre y los ejecutantes que la construyen están en el ejercicio de la fidelidad a la obra en su forma.
The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence.
How leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculptureIn the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, artists in the United States began to question what it meant to create a work of art in a world where humanity could be rendered extinct by its own hand.
Orsino Orsini, ilegítimo, deforme y con un solo ojo, cuya esposa fue seducida por el Papa Alejandro VI, construyó un 'parque de sexo y violencia' para así poder reflejar sobre este su odio (hacia el papa, su infiel esposa y un mundo que se rehúsa a aceptarlo).
"Hemos creído de la mayor oportunidad, con motivo de los 360 años de la fundación del Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, publicar este texto, editado inicialmente por la Academia Colombiana de Historia y que hoy se encuentra agotado, por cuanto con el rigor propio de su autor se narran en él todos los hechos que condujeron a dotar a nuestar institución de ese símbolo fundacional, grato a propios y extraños.
Situado en la encrucijada de la Ilustracion y el Romanticismo, el pensamiento de Herder, esencialmente critico e intempestivo, tiene una complejidad que no puede reducirse a las derivas irracionalistas que poco tenian que ver con el verdadero sentido de sus ideas.
Si realmente Europa está llamada a convertirse en el museo del mundo, deberíamos estar preparados para ofrecer la mejor imagen a los más diversos grupos de visitantes que nos necesitarán en el futuro.
Lysistrata Aristophanes - Greek playwright, Aristophanes, lived during the 5th and 4th century BC and is considered one of the principal authors of the Greek classical period.
Der lebende Leichnam: Drama in sechs Akten (zwölf Bildern) Leo Tolstoy - Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: ; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories.
This is the story of Bill Mitchell's life - his career and his body of work from hospital at an early age to a life of art with commissions offered 80 years later.
More than 125 gorgeous photographs showcase the beauty of award-winning stonemason Lew French's work in eight different homes, illustrating how rounded fieldstone, gray slate, rough granite, and even curvy driftwood can be incorporated into stunning pieces of functional art.
Greek Sculpture presents a chronological overview of the plastic and glyptic art forms in the ancient Greek world from the emergence of life-sized marble statuary at the end of the seventh century BC to the appropriation of Greek sculptural traditions by Rome in the first two centuries AD.
Greek Sculpture presents a chronological overview of the plastic and glyptic art forms in the ancient Greek world from the emergence of life-sized marble statuary at the end of the seventh century BC to the appropriation of Greek sculptural traditions by Rome in the first two centuries AD.
A new look at the interrelationship of architecture and sculpture during one of the richest periods of American modern designAlloys looks at a unique period of synergy and exchange in the postwar United States, when sculpture profoundly shaped architecture, and vice versa.
En el contexto de la conmemoración del bicentenario de la independencia, la elaboración y consolidación de nuestros símbolos y epopeyas comprende un proceso que lejos de ser neutral o unívoco, parte de tensiones y negociaciones políticas y, a la vez, simbólicas.
How leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculptureIn the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, artists in the United States began to question what it meant to create a work of art in a world where humanity could be rendered extinct by its own hand.
A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments - the forgotten national treasures of England and WalesDeep in the countryside, away from metropolitan abbeys and cathedrals, thousands of funerary monuments are hidden in parish churches.
Benvenuto Cellini was a celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith - a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful political and artistic personalities in sixteenth-century Florence, Rome and Paris.
A new look at the interrelationship of architecture and sculpture during one of the richest periods of American modern designAlloys looks at a unique period of synergy and exchange in the postwar United States, when sculpture profoundly shaped architecture, and vice versa.
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