Polymer Clay Extravaganza

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Polymer clay's versatility allows it to be combined with almost any other craft. Using this book, readers will learn how to make great projects using polymer clay and other craft materials and techniques. Lisa Pavelka divides the book into popular craft areas, with special polymer clay techniques featured throughout, including the definitive step-by-step guide to millefori caning, foiling, hand-tinted image transfer, sculpting, stamping, wire sculpting, and mosaics.... More >>

Polymer Clay Extravaganza

Encyclopedia of Sculpture Techniques

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From accelerators (chemicals that speed up the hardening process) to workmate (a portable workbench popular in many studios), this key reference contains all a working sculptor needs to know! Not only does it include details on techniques, but if offers guidance on a wide selections of materials, from bronze and concrete to polystyrene and glass. Hints on adapting tools and producing unusual finishes all give sculptors greater versatility in their craft. And the rec... More >>

Encyclopedia of Sculpture Techniques

Rodin Drawings and Watercolours

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"I have drawn all my life. I began withdrawing: I have never stopped drawing."—Auguste RodinFrom the "black" drawings contemporaneous with the Gates of Hell to his great watercolor nudes, this book reproduces hundreds of Auguste Rodin's most beautiful graphic works held in the collection of the Musée Rodin, a number of which are published here for the first time. The accompanying essays analyze the complex relationships between Rodin's drawings a... More >>

Rodin Drawings and Watercolours

Fun with Paper Folding and Origami

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Easy-to-follow instructions for over 40 different pieces: sailboat, rooster, battleship, pagoda, bird, frog, airplane, cradle, Japanese lantern, and many more. Crystal-clear text and more than 275 diagrams showing each stage in the paper folding process. Specially written to anticipate beginners' difficulties. 279 diagrams.
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Fun with Paper Folding and Origami

Eva Hesse: Studiowork

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Throughout her career, Eva Hesse (1936--1970) produced a significant number of small, experimental works alongside her large-scale sculpture. These so-called “test-pieces” were made in a wide range of materials, including latex, wire-mesh, sculp-metal, wax, and cheesecloth. Rather than considering them simply technical explorations, the art historian Briony Fer renames these small objects studiowork and argues that they put in question conventional notions of wha... More >>

Eva Hesse: Studiowork

Robert Rauschenberg: Combines

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Poetic and lush, Robert Rauschenberg's Combines present layers of complex and sometimes conflicting information. This approach, first explored by Rauschenberg in the early 1950s, proved prescient and has become increasingly relevant in the current age of cascading information, when even the most ground-breaking artists are referencing and sampling disparate elements to create new forms. The Combines suggest the fragility of definitions, the fluidity of materials, an... More >>

Robert Rauschenberg: Combines

The Official U.S. Casino Chip Price Guide

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It's official! The only comprehensive casino chip price guide in the field, featuring chips from the major gaming cities and riverboats in the U.S, is now in its bigger, better second edition! This attractive guide features an easy-to-use system that identifies and grades over 15,000 chips for rarity, condition, and price, complemented by color photos of more than $1,000,000 in rare chips, and nostagic postcard snapshots of dozens of casinos. Also new to this editio... More >>

The Official U.S. Casino Chip Price Guide

Freshwater Fish Carving

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An exciting new subject for woodcarvers is shared by one of its foremost artists. James Fliger introduces fish carving by presenting four projects: the rainbow trout, the bluegill sunfish, the black crappie, and channel catfish. A graphic artist by profession, Jim has created beautiful patterns and drawings to help the carver. The book is further illustrated with black-and-white photographs showing the carving techniques in the step-by-step fashion that is so helpfu... More >>

Freshwater Fish Carving

Enlightening the World: The Creation of the Statue of Liberty

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Conceived in the aftermath of the American Civil War and the grief that swept France over the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty has been a potent symbol of the nation's highest ideals since it was unveiled in 1886. Dramatically situated on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in the harbor of New York City, the statue has served as a reminder for generations of immigrants of America's long tradition as an asylum for the poor and the persecuted.... More >>

Enlightening the World: The Creation of the Statue of Liberty

Origami Paper Airplanes

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Origami is an ancient art, yet modern paper folders can still invent fascinating new folds. Origami Paper Airplanes is filled with new and outstanding folds that will delight, amuse, and inspire paper folders of all ages. They offer a wide variety of designs that are rated according to skill level. Everyone, from beginners to experienced folders, will find something here to delight the hand and eye. Each book opens with four pages of instructions in basi... More >>

Origami Paper Airplanes

Holy Terrors: Gargoyles on Medieval Buildings

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The introduction to this text presents the history, construction and purpose of the medieval gargoyle. The chapters that follow are devoted to the gargoyles in human, animal, and grotesque form and the carvings are considered in the context of medieval life. A guide to gargoyle sites is included.... More >>

Holy Terrors: Gargoyles on Medieval Buildings

Paper Sculpture: A Step-by-Step Guide

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"Paper Sculpture: A Step-By-Step Guide" will teach you the technical skills necessary to create visually appealing paper sculptures. Through easy to follow Photographs and text, you will learn a variety of white, coloured, painted and specialty paper techniques. The pristine beauty of paper sculpture is illustrated by nine artists who describe the curling, scoring and folding techniques used to create a wide variety of provocative paper sculptures. Full colour portf... More >>

Paper Sculpture: A Step-by-Step Guide

Candle Making

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Decorative candles are universally popular, whether coloured, scented, floating or with interesting inclusions, and making them at home is easier and cheaper than might be expected. Candles are an accessible way to add atmosphere and interest to a room and this guide includes full step-by-step instructions for a range of projects that should appeal to the first-time candle maker and those with some experience. The 16 colourful projects for the home and garden show a... More >>

Candle Making

Deborah Butterfield

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This new paperback edition of Deborah Butterfield showcases the full oeuvre of this great American sculptor, updated with new images of the artist’s latest work and information on her many gallery shows and museum exhibitions. Beautifully packaged with a new cover, this elegant and lyrical volume presents the most comprehensive retrospective look at this important American artist. Butterfield transforms selected pieces of scrap iron and found wood into majestic, l... More >>

Deborah Butterfield

Contemporary Stone Sculpture: Aesthetics Methods Appreciation

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There is currently a revival in the art of stone sculpture-along contemporary lines-of the Golden Age in Greece and the Renaissance in Europe. Many noted twentieth-century sculptors are now working directly in stone. This book explains how to create modern stone sculpture, with hundreds of examples by today's top sculptors. Included are sculptures by Jean Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Max Bill, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, and many others, illustrated and explained wi... More >>

Contemporary Stone Sculpture: Aesthetics Methods Appreciation

Three Fragments of a Lost Tale: Sculpture and Story by John Frame

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Since 2006, California sculptor John Frame (b. 1950) has been working toward the creation of a stop-motion animated film featuring an eclectic cast of fully articulated characters. In keeping with the artist's distinctive style, the figures used in the animation combine found materials with meticulously carved wood and are art objects in their own right. They inhabit a curious and complex universe and act together to tell a fragmented tale in a unique idiom. The boo... More >>

Three Fragments of a Lost Tale: Sculpture and Story by John Frame

Christianity and Classical Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism

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The momentous encounter between Christian thought and Greek philosophy reached a high point in fourth-century Byzantium, and the principal actors were four Greek-speaking Christian thinkers whose collective influence on the Eastern Church was comparable to that of Augustine on Western Latin Christendom. In this erudite and informative book, a distinguished scholar provides the first coherent account of the lives and writings of these so-called Cappadocians, showing ... More >>

Christianity and Classical Culture: The Metamorphosis of Natural Theology in the Christian Encounter with Hellenism

"The Renaissance Man", The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. BIRTH, BOYHOOD, YOUTH AT FLORENCE, DOWN TO LORENZO DE' MEDICI'S
DEATH. 1475-1492.

II. FIRST VISITS TO BOLOGNA AND ROME--THE MADONNA DELLA FEBBRE AND
OTHER WORKS IN MARBLE. 1492-1501.

III. RESIDENCE IN FLORENCE--THE DAVID. 1501-1505.

IV. JULIUS II. CALLS MICHELANGELO TO ROME--PROJECT FOR THE POPE'S
TOMB--THE REBUILDING OF S. PETER'S--FLIGHT FROM ROME--CARTOON
FOR THE BA... More >>

"The Renaissance Man", The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti

Los Carpinteros Handwork: Constructing the World

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The Havana-based duo of Marco Antonio Castillo Valdés (born 1971) and Dagoberto Rodríguez Sánchez (born 1969) are two of the most exciting artists in Cuba today. Formed in 1991, and working since 1994 under the moniker of Los Carpinteros, which they adopted as a nod to traditional craftsmen's guilds, the team renounces individual authorship to sabotage the disciplines of design and architecture from within. Their elegant and mordantly humorous sculptures, which a... More >>

Los Carpinteros Handwork: Constructing the World

Encyclopedia Anatomica: Museo La Specola Florence

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An understanding of the anatomy of the human body remains the foundation of medical science. Witness the eccentric Museo La Specola, a unique collection of anatomical wax models from the late 18th century. This book includes explanations from the perspective of modern science.Amazon.com Review
Few catalogues of science museums have the power to mesmerize their readers. Encyclopaedia Anatomica does just this, page after page, with its high-quality color ... More >>

Encyclopedia Anatomica: Museo La Specola Florence

Oaxacan Woodcarving: The Magic in the Trees

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Increasingly prized by collectors worldwide, Oaxacan woodcarvings are among the most popular form of folk art available today. These fanciful, brightly colored figures created by rural Mexican woodcarvers reflect the myths and traditions still very much a part of the carvers' daily lives. A spectacular gallery of over 160 full-color photographs beautifully portrays these artisans and their work, while an informative text examines the intricacies of the carvers' craf... More >>

Oaxacan Woodcarving: The Magic in the Trees

The Great Clay Adventure: Creative Handbuilding Projects For Young Artists

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Encourage elementary and middle school-age kids to build their clay-sculpting skills at home with these lessons and projects designed for use in the classroom. They’ll model a pinch pot, coil animals, fossils, vases, masks, and tiles that they can embellish with rubber stamps. Best of all, these projects will foster children’s confidence in their abilities and stimulate new ideas.
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The Great Clay Adventure: Creative Handbuilding Projects For Young Artists