Origami Omnibus: Paper Folding for Everybody

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With more than 250 projects of many different types and levels of difficulty, this bestselling, encyclopedic work contains traditional and modern paper-folding methods, and includes folds for the beginner and works calculated to challenge the experts.
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Origami Omnibus: Paper Folding for Everybody

Portrait Sculpting: Anatomy & Expressions in Clay

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Over 550 photographs of sixty-five different sculptures are used to show a series of exercises organized in a progressive manner. This text offers art students; painters, illustrators, forensic artists and sculptors interested in accurately depicting the human face an invaluable source of knowledge. For the beginner, the step-by-step method provides a means to achieve fast results as well as a solid foundation in the knowledge of anatomy. For the advanced artist, th... More >>

Portrait Sculpting: Anatomy & Expressions in Clay

Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles, 5th Reprint

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-- In 95 illustrations Calder's mobiles are presented not just as studies of motion, but as vehicles for the artist's great playfulness and humor --Includes a guide to many of the Calder works that can be seen in museums and public spaces around the world Alexander Calder is surely the most beloved artist of the twentieth century, as well as a major figure in the history of modern sculpture. Calder invented the mobile and the stabile; he was endlessly creative at ma... More >>

Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles, 5th Reprint

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres, one of the most influential artists of his generation, lived and worked resolutely according to his own idealistic principles, determined to "make this a better place for everyone." He combined elements of Conceptual art, Minimalism, political activism, and poetic beauty in an ever-expanding arsenal of media, including public billboards, give-away piles of candy and posters, and ordinary objects--clocks, mirrors, light fixtures--used to startl... More >>

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy

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This intriguing new look at the work of David Smith reveals how art and personal history shaped the work of one of America s foremost artists. Heralded as one of the greatest American sculptors of the twentieth century, David Smith nonetheless identified himself as a member of the working class. A contemporary of Gorky, de Kooning, and Pollock in the New York art world, Smith worked as a welder before and during World War II and retained his union membership thereaf... More >>

David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy

50 Sculptures You Should Know

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This accessible and beautifully illustrated book
presents 50 sculptures from throughout history
that should be part of every art lover s lexicon.

For centuries artists have been expressing their ideas, faith, passion, and rage in three-dimensional works that reflect historical eras, tell stories, reveal mysteries, and even create scandals. Starting from ancient times and continuing through the Classical, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, and Moder... More >>

50 Sculptures You Should Know

Jeff Koons: Versailles

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This volume presents a marriage made in camp heaven--the splendid extravagance of the palace of Versailles as a backdrop for the gregarious, loud and equally extravagant sculptures of contemporary American Pop artist Jeff Koons, who mounted the first contemporary art exhibition ever in the apartments of the king in September 2008. What other artist could match Louis XIV's love of the saccharine gesture? Sugared up to the max, Koons here counterposes Versailles' rich... More >>

Jeff Koons: Versailles

Cameos: Old & New, 3rd Edition

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This book meets the rising demand for information about collecting, appraising, buying and selling cameos. The only book of its kind, the book provides a comprehensive reference for anyone interested in cameos, including how to: Build and care for a cameo collection; develop an eye for quality and an appreciation for cameos as 'art'; detect genuine cameos from among synthetics and imitations; 'circa date' cameos to differentiate old cameos from new; distinguish ultr... More >>

Cameos: Old & New, 3rd Edition

Birds of a Feather

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It's not just birdbrains that enjoy Birds of a Feather! There are flamboyant flamingos, owls (some wise, some not so), a fiery phoenix and a flock of other polymer clay creations. Christi's warm writing style and helpful nudgings will stir up your creativity and imagination. The emphasis is on color and composition but the real treat is in seeing how to add embellishments of stones, pearls, beads and mixed media to your creations.... More >>

Birds of a Feather

Figure Sculpture in Wax and Plaster

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Step-by-step guide to materials and tools, modeling in wax and plaster, hollow wax modeling, plaster molds, and much more. Introduction. "The beginning artist will find the step-by-step instructions...to be like having a personal tutor." — Enchantment. 281 photographs.
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Figure Sculpture in Wax and Plaster

Carving Realistic Animals With Power

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Every power tool and technique necessary for capturing the animal kingdom in wood is presented in this thorough and engaging volume. Frank C. Russell provides concise instructions and never-before demonstrated techniques and carving sequences for transforming a block of wood into a life-like animal. With 150 full-color photographs, every step is illustrated. Following the philosophy that you can only carve what you know, photographs of living animals accompany each ... More >>

Carving Realistic Animals With Power

Passage

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Andy Goldsworthy's Passage focuses on the journeys that people, rivers, landscapes, and even stones take through space and time. A cairn made by the renowned sculptor in the Scottish village where he lives reveals the influence that his work close to home has on projects he creates elsewhere. A series involving elm trees, from glowing yellow leaves to dead branches, exemplifies his work's vigorous beauty as well as its association with death and decay. Creations on ... More >>

Passage

Painted Ponies

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Painted Ponies is teh classic book of antique carousel art. This extraordinary coffee table style book presents the finest carving examples by the most renowned carousel artists. The rarest horses and most unique menagerie animals were selected from America's premier private collections and antique operating carousels. Painted Ponies contains useful guides, charts, and directories for collectors, carvers, artists, and enthusiasts. This book contains over 650 c... More >>

Painted Ponies

Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles: 18 Three-dimensional Games for the Hands and Mind

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For centuries, logic puzzles have entertained, inspired and educated kids of all ages. Studies show these engaging "brain teasers" provide unsurpassed benefits to the body and mind, increasing manual dexterity, mathematical abilities and overall intellectual agility. Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles provides plans and instructions for crafting 18 of the most popular manual puzzles. Projects range from traditional "put together/take apart" games like pentominoes and soma ... More >>

Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles: 18 Three-dimensional Games for the Hands and Mind

Hellenistic Sculpture

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Provides a thematic and regional survey of Hellenistic sculpture, focusing on its main elements and its innovations.... More >>

Hellenistic Sculpture

Twenty Decorative Carving Projects in Period Styles

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This title presents 20 unique period projects to enhance any home. This UK author provides projects that are step-by-step, fully illustrated and come with patterns. It is suitable for all skill levels and of particular interest to visitors of stately homes & historical buildings. This wonderful collection of inspirational period carving projects ranges from the quick and simple to the long and complex, so caters for hobby carvers of all abilities. The new carver can... More >>

Twenty Decorative Carving Projects in Period Styles

Botero: Spanish-Language Edition

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With whimsical irony and a style reminiscent of the old masters, Fernando Botero (born 1932) began painting caricatured animals and corpulent bodies with disproportionate heads at a time when his contemporaries were fervently rejecting figurative work in favor of abstraction. This and more recent sculptural work by the popular artist are explored in this colorful study.... More >>

Botero: Spanish-Language Edition

African Masks: From the Barbier-Mueller Collection

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The book includes one hundred colour plates accompanied by in-depth descriptions, as well as numerous black-and-white photographs of the masks as they are used in religious and secular ceremonies. An introductory text by renowned scholars describes how the masks are made, examines their significance in African culture and offers insight into the universal practice of masquerading. A unique contribution to the literature on African art, this book is also a wonderful ... More >>

African Masks: From the Barbier-Mueller Collection

The Mourners: Tomb Sculpture from the Court of Burgundy

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During the late Middle Ages, the dukes of Burgundy––the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in northern Europe––commissioned sculptors of great renown to decorate their magnificent court in Dijon. Working in a studio presided over by Claus Sluter, these sculptors created monuments for the ducal family that rivaled contemporary Italian works. This stunning book provides an in-depth study of the twin summits of the achievement of these artists––sculp... More >>

The Mourners: Tomb Sculpture from the Court of Burgundy

Erwin Hauer: Continua-Architectural Screen and Walls

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Our 2004 publication of Erwin Hauer Continua resurrected the extraordinary but little-known work of this Austrian-born sculptor whose designs of perforated wall screens and modular structures are symphonies of measured elegance. Now available in paperback, Erwin Hauer Continua gathers stunning photographs, drawings, and descriptions of these classic works of design.... More >>

Erwin Hauer: Continua-Architectural Screen and Walls

Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams

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Out of the fantasies that enriched an often reclusive life, the enigmatic American artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) created a world of enchantment with his famed shadow boxes and collages. Using common objects like glasses, marbles, and mirrors, Cornell's work evokes the strangeness of the familiar and the odd familiarity of the strange.

Respected art historian and friend of the artist Diane Waldman probes the elusive imagery that marks Cornell's work. In... More >>

Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams

Sculpture Today

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Over the past three decades, sculpture has retaken its position at the forefront of contemporary art, with artists redefining the medium in remarkable and revolutionary ways. SCULPTURE TODAY is the only book to provide such a wide-ranging and richly-illustrated overview of contemporary sculpture. Thematic chapters examine the diverse subjects that have inspired sculptors in recent years, including the body, gravity, color, light, architecture, and clothing. A wid... More >>

Sculpture Today

Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s

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Prior to 1966, if artists wanted to create works larger than their studios or metalworking abilities allowed, they had to turn to industrial manufacturers, usually steel fabricators or boat builders, who, not surprisingly, were often unable to accommodate the creative process of making art. The opening that spring of Lippincott, Inc. changed that and the direction of American art in the process. Functioning as an extension of the artists' studios, Lippincott, Inc. w... More >>

Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s

Origami Insects

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Create a swarm of cleverly designed paper insects. Noted origamist presents step-by-step instructions and diagrams for 20 challenging projects: treehopper, spotted ladybug, orb weaver, tarantula, tick, butterfly, grasshopper, dragonfly, praying mantis, scorpion, and more. Helpful sections on symbols and terms and general folding directions. Intermediate to advanced level.
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Origami Insects

Zuni Fetishes & Carvings

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The best general reference for collectors. Fetishes are some of the most popular Native American art in North America. Noted Native American art dealer Kent McManis presents two major types of traditional fetishes, describes the materials that Zuni artists carve today, and introduces many skilled carvers. 160 color illustrations... More >>

Zuni Fetishes & Carvings

National Gem Collection

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The National Gem Collection offers a complete overview of the world of gems, focusing on the more than 10,000 superlative gemstones and jewelry pieces in the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Includes appendices & a glossary of gem-cutting terms. Index. 149 illustrations, 124 in color.... More >>

National Gem Collection

Greek Sculpture: The Classical Period, a Handbook

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Looks at the development of sculptures, reliefs, and friezes in fifth century B.C. Greece and assesses this period's importance in art history.... More >>

Greek Sculpture: The Classical Period, a Handbook

Dragon-Maker's Handbook-Full Color Edition

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This book details the step by step making of a fantastic papier and cloth mache dragon. See the video of the dragon being made at monster-man.com. The book is clearly written and contains 170 full color photographs. Perfect for the accomplished artist and novice alike! Outside US? Go to monster-man.com. Please note: If you don't care whether or not the instructions are in color, consider the ECONOMY, black and white version for $9.95. Same title. More det... More >>

Dragon-Maker's Handbook-Full Color Edition

Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective

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New in paperback Artist Lee Bontecou (b. 1931) became widely known in the 1960s and 1970s for her welded steel sculptures and plastic and epoxy molded assemblages—powerful constructions that evoked natural phenomena and organic biological life as well as machines and instruments of war. This critically acclaimed book—available for the first time in paperback—reevaluates the career of this highly influential artist and focuses not only upon the impact of her ... More >>

Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective

Staging Space: Scenic Interiors and Spatial Experiences

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This book offers new solutions for event architecture, scenography, media installations, interiors, and stage design. Thanks to globalization and digitalization more and more aspects of our business lives and leisure time are taking place on the internet. Consequently, there is more pressure to create the proper setting when we actually do come together. The spaces where we come into face-to-face contact with our target audiences have to be precisely arranged in ord... More >>

Staging Space: Scenic Interiors and Spatial Experiences

Stone

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Here is an arresting look at art that uses slate, limestone, river boulders, sand, mud and clay--all created by young Scottish artist Goldsworthy. Stone reflects the artist's increasingly strong conviction that the places in which he works are as essential a part of his art as that which he creates. 130 full-color photographs.... More >>

Stone

500 Metal Vessels: Contemporary Explorations of Containment

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Juried by Fred Fenster, a distinguished presence in the field, 500 Metal Vessels features page after page of superbly crafted bowls, teapots, vases, chalices, urns, and other exquisite handmade hollowware. Made from diverse metals and techniques (forging, raising, casting, forming, soldering, and welding), these eye-catching pieces also display gorgeous applied surface embellishments, from enamel to repoussé. Explore Sarah Perkin’s luminous enamel bowls; the monu... More >>

500 Metal Vessels: Contemporary Explorations of Containment

Making Mosaics

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"Making Mosaics" is an introduction for new mosaicists as well as providing inspiration for those with some experience. The author, Martin Cheek is an expert on the subject with extensive experience of running weekend courses for complete beginners. The book covers 15 original projects to make - appealing to all tastes and budgets - which are described step-by-step.... More >>

Making Mosaics

Pottery Basics

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This book is a basic introduction to pottery. It covers everything the beginner needs to know to start making beautiful ceramics. Step-by-step photographs and clear instructions guide you through the techniques for making, decorating, and firing pottery and twelve simple projects allow you to put your skills into practice. Chapters include an introduction to types of clay, basic modelling methods such as throwing, pinching, coiling and turning. Key techniques are ta... More >>

Pottery Basics

Wiener Werkstaette

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Part of the "Single Jumbo" series, this illustrated text covers the work of Wiener Werkstatte.... More >>

Wiener Werkstaette

Teach Yourself Origami

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Both beginners and veteran folders will love this instructive volume and its clear directions and crisp diagrams. Readers learn the basic folds, one at a time, for 27 simple models (frog, star, piano, penguin), 12 intermediate designs (pig, kangaroo, camel), and 5 advanced models (deer, waterwheel, elephant, bee).
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Teach Yourself Origami

Potter's Book Of Glaze Recipes

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This guide provides a short introduction to glazes with basic instructions on making your own, followed by a comprehensive collection of glaze recipes, covering a wide range of temperatures and variations. The book should be of use to any potter or ceramicist.... More >>

Potter's Book Of Glaze Recipes

Wood-Carving, Design and Workmanship

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Copyright, 1903,. By D. Appleton And Company. All Rights Reserved. Published October, 1903

Editor's Preface
In issuing these volumes of a series of Handbooks on the Artistic Crafts, it will be well to state what are our general aims. In the first place, we wish to provide trustworthy text-books of workshop...

Author's Preface
To the Reader, Be you 'prentice or student, or what is still better, both in one, I introduce the following pages to you w... More >>

Wood-Carving, Design and Workmanship

Wood

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For British artist Andy Goldsworthy, wood evokes ideas for growth, perpetual change, and transformation. In Wood, he works with leaves, bark, branches, ice, boulders, and sand. The artist's photographs, superbly reproduced here, capture the moment at which each work came alive for him--through a particular quality of light, a precise stage in melting, or the blowing of the wind. 150 color photos.... More >>

Wood

Identifying American Brilliant Cut Glass

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This invaluable guide is not only a basic reference but an identification tool that can be taken to auctions, shows, exhibits, and antique shops. This expanded fourth edition includes a newly updated value guide, the catalog names for various shapes in cut glass, and the identity of 280 patterns of American and Canadian glass by catalog name. Many patterns are identified for the first time. It points out 130 cut glass pieces by company signatures, patent records, an... More >>

Identifying American Brilliant Cut Glass

Tara Donovan

• ISBN13: 9781580932134
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Artist Tara Donovan uses commonplace consumer materials--toothpicks, tape, pencils, buttons, paper plates, and the like--to create her dazzling sculptural installations. Often biomorphic or topographical in character, her large-scale abstract works utilize systematic arrangements of thousands or even millions of units. Visually evocative and perceptually seductive, her pieces are at once organic and highly structured. Donovan has been recognized for her commitment t... More >>

Tara Donovan

Carving Caricature Head & Faces: 33 Caricatures With Step-By-Step Carving Instructions

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Caricatures demand the same skill and sense of proportion that realistic figures do. This is particularly true of carving heads, which can easily become grotesque looking if certain rules are not followed. With his years of carving, Pete LeClair has developed a sure-fire method for carving great caricature heads. Now he shares it with carvers around the country. He takes the reader step-by-step through the process of carving 33 projects, with each step illustrated w... More >>

Carving Caricature Head & Faces: 33 Caricatures With Step-By-Step Carving Instructions

Art of Colonial Latin America A&I

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A lively account of the interaction between European and indigenous artist that took place during more than 300 years of Spanish and Portuguese colonial influence in Latin America (c. 1492-1820). The book offers a fascinating insight into viceregal, missionary and civic architecture, as well as painting, sculpture and such 'minor arts' as furniture, textiles and ceramics. This is a long-awaited book on an increasingly popular subject and includes many previously uni... More >>

Art of Colonial Latin America A&I

Sculpture: Principles and Practice

• ISBN13: 9780486229607
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This authoritative introduction to sculpture covers forms of sculpture, how to construct an armature, build a model stand, carving, much more. Invaluable for beginners but skilled sculptors will find its broad scope useful. "Instruction and appreciation become one in this book." — School Arts. 253 illustrations.
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Sculpture: Principles and Practice

Art of Annemieke Mein: Wildlife Artist in Textiles

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Using various methods of embroidery, fabric-painting techniques and all kinds of textiles, Annemieke Mein demonstrates how to combine these skills to create a sculptural medium. Many of her textile studies of flora and fauna are illustrated in the book. The subjects Annemieke Mein works on are from the natural world - birds, frogs, blossoms and most often invertebrates, such as moths and dragonflies. Each work uses a wide variety of materials - silk, wool, cotton, s... More >>

Art of Annemieke Mein: Wildlife Artist in Textiles

Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Metropolitan Museum’s collection of Chinese Buddhist and Daoist sculpture is the largest in the Western world. In this lavish, comprehensive volume, archaeological discoveries and scientific testing and analysis serve as the basis for a reassessment of 120 works ranging in date from the fourth to the twentieth century, many of them previously unpublished and all of them newly and beautifully photographed. An introductory essay provides an indispensable overvie... More >>

Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Installation Art

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What has been loosely termed installation Art dominates the exhibition programmes of galleries worldwide. However, while it is much discussed it has rarely been clearly defined. In this book author Claire Bishop provides both a history and a full critical examination of installation art, in a survey of the form that is both thorough and accessible. Installation Art will provide, for the first time, a clear account of the rise of this now prevalent strand of contempo... More >>

Installation Art

Boundaries

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Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth -- a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial's w... More >>

Boundaries

New Media Art

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Art in the age of digital communication... Artists have always been early adopters of emerging media technologies, from Albrecht Dürer and his use of the printing press in the 16th century to Nam June Paik’s experiments with video in the 1960s. In 1994, the advent of the Internet as a popular medium catalyzed a global art movement that began to explore the cultural, social, and aesthetic possibilities of such new communication technologies as the Web, video su... More >>

New Media Art

James Turrell: Geometry of Light

• ISBN13: 9783775723695
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Nobody who has experienced an installation by James Turrell forgets the encounter--he makes light tangible in ways that boggle perception and almost seem to defy physics, as if you could reach into the space you see when you close your eyes. A lifelong explorer of perceptual psychology, Turrell is undoubtedly the most influential contemporary light artist, as well as one of America's most popular artists. In Geometry of Light, the first significant Turrell survey in... More >>

James Turrell: Geometry of Light