Sculpture

This book examines the reception of Graeco-Roman sculptures of Venus and their role in the construction of the body aesthetics of the fit American woman in the decades around the turn of the 20th century.

Von ihren prähistorischen Anfängen bis zur konzeptionellen Moderne des 20.

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.

Just six miles from the center of Belfast, County Down, on the plateau of Ballynahatty above the River Lagan, is one of Ireland’s great Neolithic henge monuments: the 200 m wide Giant’s Ring.

From an intercultural perspective, this book focuses on aesthetic strategies and forms of representation in premodern Christian and Islamic sepulchral art.

La escultura griega es, probablemente, el aspecto más conocido del arte griego.

Essays describing recent research and new discoveries of Hellenistic sculpture, based on papers presented at an international conference at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 1996.

This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelo's well-known masterpiece, the Vatican Pieta, by tracing the shifting meaning of the work of art over time.

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.

Disclosing the interconnectedness of human and nonhuman bodies, understood here as more/than/human entanglements, this book makes a crucial intervention into the field of contemporary artistic studies, exploring how art can conceptualize material boundaries of entangled beings/doings.

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

"e;Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster.

Space is a formative factor in the production of sculpture.

Memory Work demonstrates the evolution of the pioneering minimalist sculptor Anne Truitt.

Die Mega Square-Ausgabe Skulptur umschließt 23.

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Using the visual and tactile experience of small-scale figurines, Greeks and Babylonians negotiated a hybrid, cross-cultural society in Hellenistic Mesopotamia.

This book investigates how British contemporary artists who work with clay have managed, in the space of a single generation, to take ceramics from niche-interest craft to the pristine territories of the contemporary art gallery.

Verrocchio worked in an extraordinarily wide array of media and used unusual practices of making to express ideas.

Statues are among the most familiar remnants of classical art.

Bringing together established and emerging specialists in seventeenth-century Italian sculpture, Material Bernini is the first sustained examination of the conspicuous materiality of Bernini's work in sculpture, architecture, and paint.

This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analyzing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidence for visual material that has been lost due to systematic, and legally sanctioned, acts of erasure.

In the mid-eighteenth century, English gentlemen filled their houses with copies and casts of classical statuary while the following generation preferred authentic antique originals.

Greek Sculpture is probably the most well known aspect of Greek art, for a contemporary it expresses the most beautiful ideal and plastic perfection.

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

By foregrounding the overlaps between sculpture and the decorative, this volume of essays offers a model for a more integrated form of art history writing.

The ultimate illustrated guide to the sculpture parks and trails of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

A major new survey of American sculpture, exploring how it both reflects and redefines concepts of race and identity in the United StatesHow does American sculpture intersect with the history of race in the United States?

The first scholarly monograph devoted exclusively to this vital work of contemporary public art, this book examines Maya Lin's Confluence Project through the lens of environmental humanities and Indigenous studies.

This book explores the provenance of the so-called Berkeley Herm of Plato, a sculptural portrait that Stephen G.

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.

Essays describing recent research and new discoveries of Hellenistic sculpture, based on papers presented at an international conference at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 1996.

In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation "e;cartographic abstraction"e; - a material modality of thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques of depiction.

Wie viele fortschrittliche Künstler seiner Zeit, hatte auch Hans Uhlmann unter der Herrschaft der Nationalsozialisten zu leiden.

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.

This book investigates how British contemporary artists who work with clay have managed, in the space of a single generation, to take ceramics from niche-interest craft to the pristine territories of the contemporary art gallery.

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

In four chronologically organized chapters, this study traces the conceptual dependence and deep connectivity among Claes Oldenburg's poetry, sculpture, films, and performance art between 1956 and 1965.

Stretching across the historical region of Mesopotamia, the Akkadian dynasty (ca.

The sculpture of the early bronze age Cyclades has been systematically studied since the time of Christos Tsountas at the end of the 19th century.

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.

Dreidimensionale Bildwerke werden nicht nur als gestaltete Volumina, sondern auch als gestaltete Oberflächen wahrgenommen.

A fresh perspective on a guide to art for children, exploring its import and meaning through artworks from around the world.

Werner Hofmann versteht es hervorragend, die Zeichen der Zeit in den Äußerungen der Künstler aufzuweisen und zu deuten.

This is a path-breaking contribution to the study of medieval metalwork and to the broader re-evaluation of medieval 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.

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.