Everything That Creeps

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The first collected work of the LA underground art world’s favorite wunderkind, Elizabeth McGrath. 112 pages of full-color photos and detail shots reveal the exquisitely complex details of her sweetly twisted creatures, giving a glimpse of what the City of Misfit Toys might have become had it been saved by Satan rather than Santa. Upon first viewing, McGrath’s colorful, mummified creatures are gothic oddities, but their undeniable artistry immediately draws one... More >>

Everything That Creeps

Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) is renowned as a painter, designer, draftsman, architect, engineer, scientist, and theorist. His work as a sculptor is not commonly acknowledged, and many have argued that Leonardo believed that sculpture was an inferior art form (“of lesser genius than painting”). Challenging and overturning these assumptions, Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture looks at the sculptural projects that the artist undertook, as well as the late ... More >>

Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture

Origami for Beginners: The Creative World of Paper Folding

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Origami is an ideal craft for children since paperfolding develops dexterity and creativity. Origami is also a craft based on a few fundamental techniques, so Origami for Beginners is a useful starting point for origami fans of all ages and abilities.

There is something for everyone in Origami for Beginners. Over forty, easy-to-make objects will appeal to a wide-ranging audience. There are jumping mice and adorable kittens as well as beautiful Christmas ornam... More >>

Origami for Beginners: The Creative World of Paper Folding

New Ways With Polymer Clay: The Next Generation of Projects and Techniques

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This is an exploration of the many possible ways of conditioning, shaping, curing and mixing colours of polymer clay. This book includes practical advice on choosing the brand of clay and the most suitable tools, a guide to appropriate glues and how to use them, and tips on storing polymer clay. Ten step-by-step projects are included, ranging from simple to advanced.Amazon.com Review
With half of the text devoted to thorough coverage of the basics, this gu... More >>

New Ways With Polymer Clay: The Next Generation of Projects and Techniques

Charles Arnoldi: 1972-2008

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The Los Angeles painter and sculptor Charles Arnoldi has been described as an artist who "draws in space" to create his unique assemblages. Throughout his long career, he has been fascinated with shape and pattern as they apply to advanced formal concerns, from his 1970s paintings made entirely of natural forms to his current work, of which the architect Frank Gehry has said, "the maturing Arnoldi has a secure color sense and the ability to work at large scale as we... More >>

Charles Arnoldi: 1972-2008

Perfume, Cologne and Scent Bottles

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Through 1028 breath-taking color photographs and extensive research, Jacquelyne North has captured the enchantment of perfume bottles throughout the ages in a newly revised edition reflecting today's market. Beginning with the earliest available information (6th century B.C.) through our most contemporary designs, this book offers the reader heretofore unattainable information and an exquisite collection of illustrations. Many of the bottles pictured are currently a... More >>

Perfume, Cologne and Scent Bottles

Working With Precious Metal Clay

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Precious Metal Clay (PMC) is a material for jewellers and craft people which is as easy to manipulate as polymer clay, but when it is fired, the resulting object is 99.9per cent solid silver. This book describes how to work with PMC, including firing and finishing, and includes a set of projects.... More >>

Working With Precious Metal Clay

Sculpture in Stone

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Art teachers, students, and ambitious amateurs all will value this copiously illustrated volume. It presents both a general overview of sculpture and a practical guide to working in stone. All important stone-working equipment and tools are shown, from compass and calipers to chisels, mallets, saws, sanders, and drills. Examples of finished pieces are shown from all over the world, and cover many historical eras, including statues and relief carvings from ancient Eg... More >>

Sculpture in Stone

Testament to Union: Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C.

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Although the monuments of Washington, D.C., honor more than two centuries of history and heroes, five years of that history produced more of the city's public commemorative sculpture than all the others combined. The heroes of the Civil War command Washington's choicest vantage points and most visible parks, lending their names to the city's most familiar circles and squares -- Scott, Farragut, Logan, Sheridan, Dupont, and others.In Testament to Union, Kathryn Alla... More >>

Testament to Union: Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C.

Carousel Animals: Artistry in Motion

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Who hasn’t thrilled to the wonders of the carousel, with its wind-blown manes and fanciful steeds? From glistening white unicorns to winged elephants and roaring tigers, this celebration of carousel animals takes a colorful look at an art form that’s one part fantasy and two parts exceptional craftsmanship. More than 100 photographs display the work of the most prolific and skillful woodcarvers of the carousel heyday and examine the loving detail they poured int... More >>

Carousel Animals: Artistry in Motion

James Turrell: The Wolfsburg Project

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James Turrell (born 1943) has been working with light in all its manifestations since the 1960s. Moving beyond the purely scientific investigation of optical phenomena, his works are designed to induce extraordinary experiences for the viewer, through the manipulation of light and color. The artist has been pursing this aim since 1974, when he began transforming the Roden Crater-an extinct volcano in the Arizona desert-into an observatory, inside of which visitors c... More >>

James Turrell: The Wolfsburg Project

Paper Cutting

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The simple but beautiful art of paper cutting celebrated in inspirational designs and practical projects.... More >>

Paper Cutting

A History of Jewellery 1100-1870

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Superb sourcebook of extremely rare ornamentation provides fascinating history of jewelry styles over 700-year period. Detailed narrative enhances 400 photographs and illustrations of striking pieces: gilt bronze clasp (c. 1200); 13th-century reliquary pendant; diamond and topaz necklace (c.1760), much more.... More >>

A History of Jewellery 1100-1870

How to Carve Folk Figures and a Cigar-Store Indian

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Step-by-step instructions and numerous illustrations for ten folk projects: bust of old man, grandpa with cane, granny sweeping, bust of young girl, little girl with rag doll, barefoot boy with frog, retirement fund, concertina player, Indian bust, and full-fledged cigar-store Indian. 116 illustrations.
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How to Carve Folk Figures and a Cigar-Store Indian

Mouldmaking and Casting

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Mouldmaking and Casting is a manual of the many techniques of this ancient craft and art form. With step-by-step illustrations, it explains the materials required and the processes involved to create reproductions of a range of pieces. The book covers traditional techniques as well as today’s more advanced technical methods.... More >>

Mouldmaking and Casting

Utopics: Systems and Landmarks

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A superbly selected A-Z glossary of utopian structures, zones and acts in art and beyond, Utopics is a guide to artistically "living otherwise"-whether through imaginative design solutions (Andrea Zittel, Lang & Baumann), artist republics (Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta, Robert Filliou's Republique Geniale), temporary utopias (Atelier Van Lieshout's AVL-Ville) or extraordinary spaces (James Turrell's Roden Crater) and situations (Rirkrit Tiravanija). Also itemi... More >>

Utopics: Systems and Landmarks

The Essential Alexander Calder

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The American sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was one of the most inventive and beloved artists of his time. He was best known for his mobiles--hanging, dangling, perfectly balanced innovative sculptures that twist and orbit in the breeze--and for his stabiles, stationary sculptures, often enormous, that grace and enliven public spaces around the world. ... More >>

The Essential Alexander Calder

Bone Carving: A Skillbase of Techniques and Concepts

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Bone Craving is an old as civilisation itself. Even some of the oldest bone artefacts have decorative features that are clearly necessary for their functional nature. Showing that there have been complex cultural aspects to the carving of bone since the earliest times. In Bone Carving, Stephen Myhre has drawn with great sensitivity, on techniques and styles of carving from a wide range of Pacific cultures, particulary Maori. The result is a superbly practical handbo... More >>

Bone Carving: A Skillbase of Techniques and Concepts

A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection

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A Revolution in Wood celebrates the magnificent gift of sixty-six pieces of turned and carved wood to the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum by the distinguished collectors Fleur and Charles Bresler. Illustrated in lavish detail, works by this country's best-known wood artists highlight the growing sophistication of American craft's youngest medium and the expressive capacity of its most organic material.

Masterpieces by the field's pionee... More >>

A Revolution in Wood: The Bresler Collection

Plain and Ornamental Forging

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Here, available once more in reprint, is one of the most enlightening books ever written on the blacksmith's craft. Called a "bible" of the trade by many because of its wonderful "teaching quality," it has been used by generations of blacksmiths as the seminal text on forging. Designed primarily to assist the beginner in learning both the theory and practice of forge work through self-instruction, the chapters on advanced forging and art forging provide directions f... More >>

Plain and Ornamental Forging

Carving Bears and Bunnies

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This book grows out of many requests we have received for animal carving books in general, and for Tom Wolfe animals in particular. His raccoons and hounds have graced the pages of his previous books. His bears, in their original form and as reproductions, have found their way into the hearts of people across the nation. Beginning with a plain block of bass wood or white pine Tom creates a menagerie of characters. Bunnies and bears are the epitome of "cuddly," and a... More >>

Carving Bears and Bunnies

Ambitious Form: Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Florence

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Ambitious Form describes the transformation of Italian sculpture during the neglected half century between the death of Michelangelo and the rise of Bernini. The book follows the Florentine careers of three major sculptors--Giambologna, Bartolomeo Ammanati, and Vincenzo Danti--as they negotiated the politics of the Medici court and eyed one another's work, setting new aims for their art in the process. Only through a comparative look at Giambologna and his contempor... More >>

Ambitious Form: Giambologna, Ammanati, and Danti in Florence

Gordon Matta-Clark: Works and Collected Writings

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Gordon Matta-Clark, scion and rebel, died at 35 in 1978 and has since become a cult figure of late-twentieth-century art. Born in New York and trained in architecture at Cornell, he went on to question the field's conventions in vivid projects that excised holes into existing buildings or assembled deeds to New York City alleys and curbs. As the son of the Chilean-born Surrealist painter Roberto Matta and Anne Clark, and godson of Marcel Duchamp, with whom he played... More >>

Gordon Matta-Clark: Works and Collected Writings

Decorative Mosaics

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This work contains 12 step-by-step projects that show how to make imaginative mosiacs. A gallery section illustrates a variety of mosaicists' work.... More >>

Decorative Mosaics

Saving Graces

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Many cemeteries in Europe are strewn with shockingly sensual sculptures of women.
They are idealized creations-young, gorgeous, elaborately posed, and beautifully sculpted. David Robinson's exquisite photographs reveal the angelic beauty and mystery of these lifelike sculptures. In her foreword, Joyce Carol Oates explores the many implications of these grief-stricken, extremely provocative female figures.... More >>

Saving Graces

assume vivid astro focus

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The first book on the artist collective known for their raucous multimedia installations. Founded by artist Eli Sudbrack, assume vivid astro focus has been dazzling the art world since 1994 with its exuberant, visually spectacular room-size installations. Created out of recycled and appropriated imagery from a wide range of sources—such as unicorn tapestries, children’s stickers, pages from gay porn magazines, album covers, Buddhist thangka paintings, and street... More >>

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Calder at Home: The Joyous Environment of Alexander Calder

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Inspired by a 1963 trip to Alexander Calder's home for "House & Garden", this book, a 13-year odyssey to document the artist's lifestyle, features an intimate, insider's view of the way he lived, worked, and entertained. 150 photos, many in color .Amazon.com Review
What a thrill this book should be for those who have yet to fall in love with sculptor Alexander Calder, who died in 1976. And it will deepen the affection the rest of us already hold for him... More >>

Calder at Home: The Joyous Environment of Alexander Calder

Ilya Kabakov: The Man who Flew into Space from His Apartment

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The fictitious hero of this 1984 installation is a lonely dreamer who develops an impossible project: to fly alone in cosmic space. But this dream is also an individual appropriation of a collective Soviet project and the official Soviet propaganda connected to it. Having built a makeshift slingshot, the hero apparently flies through the ceiling of his shabby room and vanishes into space. The miserable room and the primitive slingshot suggest the reality behind the ... More >>

Ilya Kabakov: The Man who Flew into Space from His Apartment

Henry Moore: Sculpting the Twentieth Century

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Henry Moore (1898-1986) is arguably one of the most famous and beloved sculptors of the twentieth century, yet in recent decades his work has fallen out of favour in the world of contemporary art criticism. This handsome book examines this intriguing contradiction and seeks to reassess Moore's crucial contribution to art of the last century. Looking at Moore's early engagements with primitivism, his 1930s dialogue with abstraction and surrealism, and his postwar int... More >>

Henry Moore: Sculpting the Twentieth Century

The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification

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With the opening of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, bestselling author Christopher Hitchens states the case for reunification. The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and executed by Pheidias to adorn the Parthenon, are perhaps the greatest of all classical sculptures. In 1801, Lord Elgin, then ambassador to the Turkish government, had chunks of the frieze sawn off and shipped to England, where they were subsequent... More >>

The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification

The Art Of Rachel Whiteread

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In little more than a decade Rachel Whiteread has emerged as one of the most significant British artists of the past fifty years, with a substantial international reputation. Based upon a practice of inverted casting - making space tangible - Whiteread's work offers both intimate and public meditations on vital questions of history, memory and social change. But these are also artworks with profound and carefully weighed formal concerns and an affiliation to the cri... More >>

The Art Of Rachel Whiteread

Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and its Symbols, 1650-1815

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In Puritan New England, with its abiding concern for things not of this world and its distrust of forms and ceremonies, one art flourished: the symbolic art of mortuary monument stonecarvers. This carefully researched, beautifully illustrated work was the first to consider this art in depth as a meaningful aesthetic-spiritual expression. It is reissued for today's readers, with a new preface outlining changes in the field since the book appeared in 1966.... More >>

Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and its Symbols, 1650-1815

The Drawings of Henry Moore

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Henry Moore's Shelter Drawings are universally recognised as a key element of his oeuvre. However, these drawings should not be seen in isolation: this volume provides a highly readable account of the development of Moore's work as a draughtsman so providing a well-rounded discussion of this significant aspect of his artistic output. In 1953 Moore wrote, 'there is a general idea that sculptors' drawings should be diagrammatic studies, without any sense of background... More >>

The Drawings of Henry Moore

The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power, and Art in West Africa

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"... finely crafted scholarship. Elegant and graceful, yet packed with knowledge and information, it embodies the aesthetic qualities which it describes and explores." -- American Ethnologist"The text is detailed and informative, and enjoyable reading... " -- Choice"The Mande Blacksmith is an important book... sensitive, sympathetic, multifaceted, and thorough... " -- African ... More >>

The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power, and Art in West Africa

Annette Messager

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"I'm the pedlar of chimaeras, the pedlar of simian dreams, of arachnid deliriums...I'm the trickster, a trickster with overpainted photos, distorting enlargements, overprintings, out-of-focus close-ups, concatenated images, distorting lenses...I'm the teller of lies, the messenger of false premonitions, of dubious loves, of suspect memories, the woman who tames paper spiders..."--Annette Messager

Annette Messager's original use of form and poetic power of com... More >>

Annette Messager

Installation Art In The New Millennium: The Empire Of The Senses

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Following on from Installation Art (1994) by the same authors, the book surveys and illustrates the remarkable efflorescence of Installation worldwide. It is divided into five sections, each dealing with developments in Installation and the effects these have had on artists, institutions and audiences. The works of artists across the world are presented in over 250 illustrations and accompanied by extensive captions. Further details on artists and their works are pr... More >>

Installation Art In The New Millennium: The Empire Of The Senses

New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters

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While woven bamboo containers have been common in Asia for thousands of years, it is only in the past 150 years that basketry has become widely regarded as an art form. This stunning book celebrates contemporary Japanese bamboo masters whose breathtakingly beautiful and imaginative new works are changing the definition of basketry. Focusing on contemporary bamboo artists working in sculptural forms, the book is based on recent interviews and critical analysis. In h... More >>

New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters

Carving Animal Caricatures

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Specific instructions, photographs and angle sketches for 24 projects—from Bolivar Bull through Casper Camel to Sammy Stegosaurus. Only simplest tools and materials used. 94 illustrations. "...excellent for the beginner."—National Carvers Museum Review. "Both beginning and experienced woodcarvers will enjoy this book..."—Workbench.
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Carving Animal Caricatures

Making Animal Characters In Polymer Clay

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With this books as a guide, anyone can learn to create colorful, imaginative animal characters out of polymer clay. Starting with basic skills that increase in complexity over the course of several projects, crafters will fashion a variety of "animal-at-work" figurines. Information about the common problems and pitfalls that beginning polymer clay artists face help them to make progress on the first day of modeling and avoid any start-up frustrations. Eventually the... More >>

Making Animal Characters In Polymer Clay

Lalanne

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Francois-Xavier and Claude Lalanne, a French husband-and-wife team of sculptors, have worked side by side for more than half a century. Their art is complementary, and both draw from the humor and spontaneity of surrealism while maintaining their individuality. Drawing from the grand tradition of French animaliers like Barye and Pompon, Francois-Xavier creates opulent and utilitarian pieces such as the whimsical rhinoceros desk, a "Tin of Sardines" bed, and his famo... More >>

Lalanne

Wood Burning Angels

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Sue Waters skillfully guides readers through all the wood burning steps to create stunning angel art. Three inspirational projects are presented: The Prayer Bench, Puppy Heaven, and Victorian Angel. Over 240 clear, detailed, full color photographs, three patterns, and concise, step-by-step instructions are included. The detailed text provides full listings of all tools necessary to successfully complete these projects, ranging from the wood stock and burning tips em... More >>

Wood Burning Angels

Faerie Lights

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Twenty-four designs for creating colorful and enchanting fairies of all types-from Xaniane the crystal warrior to Whisper the princess of innocence-are featured in this guide to stained glass. Designs feature fairies posing with flowers, mushrooms, seashells, and bubbles, and include tips for construction and a verse that further defines the personality and magic of each of these delightful creatures. These designs can be used with other crafts such as quilting, app... More >>

Faerie Lights

Olafur Eliasson: Inner City Out

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One of the most important artists of his generation, Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) creates immersive environments and spectacular public installations that probe the cognitive aspects of vision and transform the act of looking into a social experience. Merging art and science, Eliasson engages the observer as participant, challenging the passive viewing experience by utilizing such elements as temperature, smell, moisture and light to trigger physical sensations. Olaf... More >>

Olafur Eliasson: Inner City Out

Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-1789

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Discusses the major painters and sculptors of the period during the last years of France's "ancien regime" - a period that started with Watteau and the "fete galante" and closed with the revolutionary history paintings of David.... More >>

Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700-1789

Santa Carving : A Carving Primer for Beginning and Advanced Carvers

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The premier work of author carver Ron Ransom. He offers instructions for three specific versions of Santa Claus and many other variations, as well as painting instructions. Rons illustrations serve as an impetus for the carver to approach his own work with freedom. His Old World Santas are great symbols of happiness and goodness.... More >>

Santa Carving : A Carving Primer for Beginning and Advanced Carvers

Heritage of Power: Ancient Sculpture from West Mexico: The Andrall E. Pearson Family Collection

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During the years between 300 B.C.E. and 400 C.E., peoples in a western region of Mexico lived in small, economically successful communities in a land of abundant natural resources. In these communities—now the modern Mexican states of Colima, Jalisco, and Nayarit—family lineage was important and burial sites were often conjoined to hold numerous relatives. Ceramic objects were also buried to testify to the family’s wealth; some of these were large three-dimens... More >>

Heritage of Power: Ancient Sculpture from West Mexico: The Andrall E. Pearson Family Collection

Anri Woodcarving: Bottle Stoppers, Corkscrews, Nutcrackers, Toothpick Holders, Smoking Accessories, and More

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This book presents vintage, often whimsical, and one-of-a-kind wooden figurine carvings by ANRI, the world-renowned company founded in 1912 in the Dolomite Mountains of northern Italy. Among the more than 2,500 carvings featured are bottle stoppers, bottle openers and corkscrews, bar sets, calendars, letter openers, bookends, humidors, ashtrays, lighters, cigarette boxes, pipe rests, salt and pepper sets, pepper mills, napkin rings, timers, toothpick holders, brushe... More >>

Anri Woodcarving: Bottle Stoppers, Corkscrews, Nutcrackers, Toothpick Holders, Smoking Accessories, and More

Capturing Nature: The Cement Sculpture of Dionicio Rodriguez

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Over a period of some twenty years, Mexican-born artisan Dionicio Rodríguez created imaginative sculptures of reinforced concrete that imitated the natural forms and textures of trees and rocks. He worked in eight different states from 1924 through the early 1950s but spent much of his early career in San Antonio, where several of his creations have become beloved landmarks. More than a dozen of Rodríguez's works have been included on the National Register of Hist... More >>

Capturing Nature: The Cement Sculpture of Dionicio Rodriguez

1000 Sculptures of Genius

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From the Antiquity to the twentieth century, this sculpture collection offers a truly original vision of Western art. Here are the most sensual and harmonious masterworks to the most provocative and minimalist sculptures. Sculpture shapes the world and our concept of beauty, leaving everlasting silhouettes and always creating new intriguing ones. These masterworks are the mirror of an era, of an artist and his public and through this sculpture gallery, one visits no... More >>

1000 Sculptures of Genius

Constantin Brancusi

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The elegant and exquisitely shaped sculptures of Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) are easily among the most iconic sculptures created in the twentieth century. "There are those idiots who define my work as abstract," he once said; "yet what they call abstract is what is most realistic. What is real is not the appearance but the idea, the essence of things." This volume includes 35 color images; a commentary by Carolyn Lanchner, a former curator of painting and sculpt... More >>

Constantin Brancusi