Sculpture

Über den Doryphoros des Polyklet wurde bereits viel und ausführlich geschrieben.

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 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.

Die Mega Square-Ausgabe Skulptur umschließt 23.

This book explores the ways Robert Smithson's art revealed and defamiliarized the constructs of rational reality in order to allow radically speculative alternatives to emerge.

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.

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.

Highly respected by her peers and hugely influential on the subsequent generation of artists, the British artist Helen Chadwick produced a wideranging body of work in a variety of media, which shifted from early institutional and architectural critique to operatic installations, and to photographic projects and sculptures.

Als das Portrat einer Randgruppe fordert dieses Buch zur Auseinandersetzung mit dem Phanomen Outcast heraus, indem es das vielfaltige Material, das in zahlreichen Projekten kunstlerischer Forschung mit weiblichen Drogenabhangigen in europaischen Gefangnissen und Therapieeinrichtungen entstanden ist, ordnet und in einen Zusammenhang bringt.

This volume presents the proceedings of a conference hosted by the American School of Classical Studies, Athens and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Athens in 2004.

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

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.

Artist Evelyn Rosenberg invented a remarkable technique to make sculpture by forming metal with plastic explosives.

This accessible beginner's guide covers everything you need to know to start creating amazing origami art, featuring clear, step-by-step instructions with helpful photos.

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.

An in-depth look at the exquisite metal sculpture of the Roman baroqueRoman baroque sculpture is usually thought of in terms of large-scale statues in marble and bronze, tombs, or portrait busts.

This study examines the five extant large Imperial cameos of the Early Roman Empire as a coherent whole, revealing that these gemstones were a referential group with complex interrelationships.

A disciple of Classical sculpture in a time of pervasive abstract modernism, Lawrence M.

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

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.

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.

The exquisite art of Japanese lacquerwork has long had its share of devotees and collectors in the West.

In 1929, the Museum of Modern Art opened its doors, showing the astonishing paintings of Picasso, Matisse, and other avant garde artists.

Sculpture/Inuit draws together masterworks of Eskimo caring in a full and definitive recognition of the culture of the Inuit, the Eskimos of North America.

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.

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.

An illustrated biography celebrating the life and legacy of a renowned Italian artistIn this illustrated biography of the late Italian artist, Livio Orazio Valentini: An Artist's Spiritual Odyssey, Robert E.

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

This book offers an in-depth investigation of the religious motivations behind Michelangelo''s sculpture and graphic works in his late period.

The Serpent Column, a bronze sculpture that has stood in Delphi and Constantinople, today Istanbul, is a Greek representation of the Near Eastern primordial combat myth: it is Typhon, a dragon defeated by Zeus, and also Python slain by Apollo.

A disciple of Classical sculpture in a time of pervasive abstract modernism, Lawrence M.

In 1985, the Sohio oil company commissioned Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen to design and construct a large outdoor sculpture for its new corporate headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio.

Child of the Fire is the first book-length examination of the career of the nineteenth-century artist Mary Edmonia Lewis, best known for her sculptures inspired by historical and biblical themes.

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

This book tells the story of the Del Riccio family in Florence in the early modern period, investigating the cultural mediations fostered by the family between Florence, Rome, and Naples, as well as shedding light on the intellectual and social exchanges between different regions of Italy and on the creation of foreign nations within the main Italian cities.

Anton Josef Reiss, geboren 1835 in Düsseldorf, war einer der berühmtesten und produktivsten Bildhauer seiner Zeit.

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.

In 1929, the Museum of Modern Art opened its doors, showing the astonishing paintings of Picasso, Matisse, and other avant garde artists.

Create with polymer clay like a pro!

This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China.

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.

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.