Sculpture

Can a work of art help us know our world differently?

The four centuries between the composition of the Homeric epics and the conquests of Alexander the Great witnessed an immensely creative period in Greek art, one full of experimentation and innovation.

Influenced by the masters of Antiquity, the genius of Michelangelo and Baroque sculpture, particularly of Bernini, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is one of the most renowned artists in history.

Drawing on recent research by established and emerging scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, this volume reconsiders the art and architecture produced after 1563 across the conventional geographic borders.

In the 1950s and 60s, Martin Heidegger turned to sculpture to rethink the relationship between bodies and space and the role of art in our lives.

From the Antiquity to the 20th century, this sculpture collection offers a truly original vision of Western art.

JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and Other Plays is a collection of three radically poetic works for live performance by OBIE award-winning playwright Caridad Svich.

If we actually received messages from the stars, what would we do with them?

In his third book, Strauss delves into the mysterious process whereby an idea is born in the mind and materialized through the hand in the expression of an artwork.

This book investigates Jimmie Durham's community-building process of making and display in four of his projects in Europe: Something .

This book examines a famous series of sculptures by the German artist Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783) known as his "e;Character Heads.

This book explores the issue of ecclesiastical authority in Romanesque sculpture on the portals and other sculpted "e;gateways"e; of churches in the north Italian region of Lombardy.

The work aims at bringing the Persian texts into the study of the arts and technology of the Indo-lranian world - an approach much neglected so far.

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.

Degas was closest to Renoir in the impressionist's circle, for both favoured the animated Parisian life of their day as a motif in their paintings.

Robert Morris, a leading figure in postwar American art, is best known as a pioneer of minimalist sculpture, process art, and earthworks.

This book elaborates on the social and cultural phenomenon of national schools during the nineteenth century, via the less studied field of sculpture and using Belgium as a case study.

This book explores the ways in which statues have been experienced in public in different cultures and the role that has been played by statues in defining publicness itself.

Explains the social function and aesthetic achievement of Greek sculpture from c.

Indian art, increasingly popular in the west, cannot be fully appreciated without some knowledge of the religious and philosophical background.

This book explores the multifaceted aspects of sculptor's workshops from the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century.

Von ihren prähistorischen Anfängen bis zur konzeptionellen Moderne des 20.

This study considers the performativity of sound-producing sculptures made in the twenty-first century through a cultural history of certain works.

This is a book about classical sculptures in the early modern period, centuries after the decline and fall of Rome, when they began to be excavated, restored, and collected by British visitors in Italy in the second half of the eighteenth century.

This collection explores the ancient fountains of Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul, reviving the senses of past water cultures.

Die Bildhauerei Griechenlands fasst in sich die Seele aller Bildhauerei zusammen.

Influenced by the masters of Antiquity, the genius of Michelangelo and Baroque sculpture, particularly of Bernini, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is one of the most renowned artists in history.

A world-class colorist of international standing in modern glass, Stephen Rolfe Powell creates his work in a quiet outpost of rural Kentucky.

This investigation relies on a rash bet: to write the biography of two of the most famous statues in Antiquity, the Tyrannicides.

Si l’âme est chrétienne, la beauté est grecque.

Sculpture has been a central aspect of almost every art culture, contemporary or historical.

The streets and public spaces of London are rich with statues and monuments commemorating the city's great figures and events from Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square and Sir Christopher Wren's Great Fire Monument to the charming Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens.

« Tous les êtres vivants sont Bouddha et ont en eux sagesse et vertu.

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 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.

Explore the human form in depth, from concept sketches and armatures to detailed instructions for constructing legs, torso, arms, hands, and head from clay.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

"e;Give(s) in detail every process and method of the sculptor's craft with a fullness to be found in no other works.

Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible.

Rain machines; alarmed kosher pickle jars filled with gemstones; replica corn flakes boxes; 'disco decor'; time capsules; art bombs; birthday presents; perfume bottles and floating silver pillows that are clouds; paintings that are also films; museum interventions; collected and curated projects; expanded performance environments; holograms.

Parks, maps, and mapping technologies like the GPS are objects of visual and material culture that rely on the interplay of text, context, image, and space to guide our interpretations of the world around us.

This book explores the issue of ecclesiastical authority in Romanesque sculpture on the portals and other sculpted "e;gateways"e; of churches in the north Italian region of Lombardy.

Monuments around the world have become the focus of intense and sustained discussions, activism, vandalism, and removal.

This extraordinary seven-part book covers the processes of creating 13 projects -- from pencils to vases to bicycles -- for all personalities, skill levels and interests.

This book provides original grounds for integrating the bodily, somatic senses into our understanding of how we make and engage with visual art.

Pottery: History, Preparation and Uses opens with a discussion of silicates, the most abundant minerals on the Earth's crust.

This book is about the digital interface and its use in interactive new media art installations.