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

• ISBN13: 9780847833054
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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