Brancusi: Photographs

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Constantin Brancusi, the great twentieth-century sculptor, was also a talented and experimental photographer. Some of his remarkable photographs are shown here: self-portraits and studio shots that provide glimpses into a rare and specialized world; images of his own sculpture that present his art as he wanted the world to see it.... More >>

Brancusi: Photographs

Paul McCarthy: Head Shop. Shop Head

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Although Paul McCarthy was born in 1945, has been working for nearly 40 years and is counted among the most influential figures of his generation, he didn't become known to the general public until the early 1990s. Because of this, and because he has frequently collaborated with younger artists like Mike Kelley and Jason Rhoades, many people think mistakenly that McCarthy belongs to a younger generation. Perhaps this is also because his portfolio includes works like... More >>

Paul McCarthy: Head Shop. Shop Head

Matisse: Painter as Sculptor

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Widely known for his vibrant and innovative modernist paintings and works on paper, Henri Matisse (1869–1954) also produced a large number of sculptures that were equally groundbreaking. This original and lavishly illustrated book examines more than forty of Matisse’s sculptures and joins them with his paintings, drawings, prints, and collages to investigate the relationship between his two-dimensional and three-dimensional work.
Essays present an overview of... More >>

Matisse: Painter as Sculptor

A Garden for Art: Outdoor Sculpture at The Hirshhorn Museum

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The Hirshhorn Museum's sculpture garden provides a contemplative haven in the heart of Washington. More than sixty sculptures in a broad range of styles dating from the 1880s through the 1960s are displayed in it, while another dozen sculptures from the 1960s to the 1990s occupy the plaza around the museum building. Together the landscaped grounds form an outdoor gallery that is enjoyed by more than 340,000 visitors annually. In her introductory essay, Valerie Fletc... More >>

A Garden for Art: Outdoor Sculpture at The Hirshhorn Museum

Direct Wood Sculpture: Technique- Innovation - Creativity

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This is a book that explores into two worlds, the appreciation of wood as medium for sculpture and a practical look of technique. The history of sculpting directly into wood is explored, illustrated with many classic examples of the art, from ancient Egypt to the twentieth century. But this book is also a vital resource for those seeking to create sculpture in wood. A complete description of the qualities and types of wood, tools (both hand and power), techniques, a... More >>

Direct Wood Sculpture: Technique- Innovation - Creativity

Assyrian Sculpture: Second Edition

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For almost three centuries, until 612 b.c., the small kingdom of Assyria dominated the Middle East, its empire at one point extending from Iran to Egypt. The story of those years-the triumphs of the Assyrian kings in war and peace, their exploits in the hunting field, and the gods who watched over them-were recorded in stone on the walls of a succession of royal palaces. These sculptures, offering eyewitness views of a long-lost civilization, were not rediscovered u... More >>

Assyrian Sculpture: Second Edition

Richard Long: Walking The Line

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This book by and about the sculptor and pioneer land artist Richard Long explores his work from the 1990s to the present day. Long's ability to make works of physical and intellectual beauty in both outdoor and indoor spaces is unrivaled, and the journey covered here takes the reader around the world: to the Sahara Desert and down the Rio Grande, from coast to coast in Ireland and Spain, to Tierra del Fuego and Mongolia, and to the forests of Honshu in Jap... More >>

Richard Long: Walking The Line

Mike Kelley

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In a survey of Californian-based artist Mike Kelly, the author of this volume discusses with the artist his various aesthetic and symbolic strategies in both the American and In European contexts. Kelly's work is considered in the context of his anti-art predecessors since Dada and chronicles all of Kelly's work, from his earliest performances in the late 1970s to his large sculptural installations in the 1990s.... More >>

Mike Kelley

Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation

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"Celebrating Moore" is the biggest and most comprehensive single volume to be produced on the artist's oeuvre, reproducing in colour over 250 of Henry Moore's most important works. Originally published to celebrate the centenary of Moore's birth in 1998, it is now available for the first time in paperback. David Mitchinson's introductory essay traces the formation of the Henry Moore Foundation's Collection, the most important and comprehensive single group of Moore'... More >>

Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation

Medardo Rosso: The Transient Form

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This catalog presents the complex and contemporary aesthetic of Medardo Rosso with a selection of sculptures, plaster casts, bronzes, original photographs, and documents. It highlights the complicated work of dating and reconstructing Rosso’s productions.... More >>

Medardo Rosso: The Transient Form

Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects

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Winner, Scholarly Illustrated Category, 2007 AAUP Book Jacket and Journal Show. and Received an Honorable Mention in the Art & Art History category of the 2005 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Awards Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc.

Alice Aycock's large, semi-architectural works deal with the interaction of structure, site, materials, and the psychophysical responses of the viewer. Offered meaningful... More >>

Alice Aycock: Sculpture and Projects

Making Native American Pottery

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Michael Simpson tells in easy-to-understand steps, according to traditional methods, how to make several types of Native American pots.... More >>

Making Native American Pottery

Origami Boxes For Gifts, Treasures & Trifles

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Small treasures deserve beautiful boxes to hold them, and origami, the deceptively simple Japanese art of folding and connecting multiple sheets of paper, makes a range of wonderful styles and unique containers. Create endless variations by changing colors, patterns, and textures. Plentiful photos, bright and close up, will show you how to go each step of the way, and there are even suggestions for appropriate things to put in each kind of box.
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Origami Boxes For Gifts, Treasures & Trifles

Origami for the Connoisseur

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Here at last is an origami book intended solely for the advanced paperfolder. Groundbreaking in concept and challenging in content, it presents sixty-five ingenious projects by respected masters working in a variety of themes and origami genres. From Toshikazu Kawasaki's Unique Iso-area Folding Method to David Briil's remarkable "bottle" to Peter Engel's playful "kangaroo," the featured designs have been carefully chosen to test the refined sensibilities and stimula... More >>

Origami for the Connoisseur

Patricia Cronin: Harriet Hosmer, Lost and Found

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Written and illustrated (in watercolor) by American conceptualist Patricia Cronin, this is the only catalogue raisonne of Hosmer (1830-1908), the first professional woman sculptor.... More >>

Patricia Cronin: Harriet Hosmer, Lost and Found

Medardo Rosso: Second Impressions

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The Italian artist Medardo Rosso (1858-1928) is a key figure in the development of modern sculpture. His portraits and figure studies have long been considered sculptural equivalents to Impressionism's concern with light at the expense of form. This insightful book-the first comprehensive study of Rosso's art-presents an artist more deeply concerned with materials, process, and the reproduction of his works than previously imagined. Rosso's fascination with techniq... More >>

Medardo Rosso: Second Impressions

Artists, Land, Nature

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Following the huge success of Abrams' books by artist Andy Goldsworthy comes this striking volume on six important contemporary artists who work in the landscape and make use of the materials and processes of nature. While the artists showcased—herman de vries, Chris Drury, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Nikolaus Lang, Richard Long, and Giuseppe Pennone—do not belong to a particular school, they are united by their empathy for the natural world and their decisi... More >>

Artists, Land, Nature

Nam June Paik: Video Time, Video Space

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A survey of the Korean-American artist's vital, visionary and varied career. From his earliest work as a composer/performance artist in the '60s neo-Dada Fluxus movement in Europe and the Happening scene in New York, to his present-day multiscreen television installations, whimsical robots, singular television sculptures and global satellite productions, Paik has always been at the forefront in employing technology to serve creative expression. His invention of an e... More >>

Nam June Paik: Video Time, Video Space

From Pergamon to Sperlonga: Sculpture and Context

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This volume brings together the work of leading scholars on two of the most important, yet puzzling, extant ensembles of Hellenistic Age sculpture: the Great Altar at Pergamon, with its Gigantomachy and scenes from the life of Telephos, and the Cave at Sperlonga in Italy, with its epic themes connected especially with the adventures of Odysseus. From Pergamon to Sperlonga has three aims: to update the scholarship on two important monuments of ancient art and archite... More >>

From Pergamon to Sperlonga: Sculpture and Context

Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, And Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture

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Donors of Longmen is the first work in a Western language to recreate the history of the Longmen Grottoes, one of China's great stone sculpture treasure houses. Longmen, a UNESCO World Heritage site located near the old capital of Luoyang in modern Henan Province, consists of thousands of ancient cave chapels and shrines containing Buddhist icons of all sizes that were carved into the towering limestone cliffs from the fifth to the eighth century. Beyo... More >>

Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, And Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture

The Art of the Scythians: The Interpenetration of Cultures at the Edge of the Hellenic World

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This volume considers the art of the Scythians of the northern littoral of the Black Sea, as that art was expressed in gold, silver, bronze, and bone. Appearing by the seventh century B.C. at the edge of an expanding Hellenic world, the history and art of the Scythians must be considered within a context that recognizes the sources of Scythian culture in the Eurasian Steppe as well as the historical contingency of West Asia and the Greek colonies. B... More >>

The Art of the Scythians: The Interpenetration of Cultures at the Edge of the Hellenic World

Elmgreen & Dragset: Celebrity

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In their latest monograph, the Danish-Norwegian duo Elmgreen & Dragset address the world of celebrity: rumor-mongering, life in the public eye, the mechanisms of the media, its formation of myths and how those myths endlessly bombard us with staged presentations of the self. Two allegorical installations on celebrity and its implications of "the one" (the celebrity) and "the many" (the rest of us) were devised for the duo's exhibition at the ZKM | Center for Art and... More >>

Elmgreen & Dragset: Celebrity

Concise Guide to European Porcelain

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A practical guide to the principal European porcelain manufacturers. Entries are arranged alphabetically and are devoted to the various potteries and the main types of collectable items. Other chapters cover Meissen, Sevres and Vienna wares, and fakes and forgeries.... More >>

Concise Guide to European Porcelain

John Chamberlain: The Foam Sculptures

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Here is the flip-side of John Chamberlain's well-known crushed car sculptures: his work in foam. Just as revelatory in their formal sophistication, these works, primarily made from 1966 to 1970, with a few made in the late 1970s and early 1980s, boggle the eye with their simplicity. To make them, Chamberlain looped rope around a mass of plain or painted urethane foam and tightened it to create dynamic tensions, which resulted in seductively rounded volumes. These sc... More >>

John Chamberlain: The Foam Sculptures

Origami 3: Third International Meeting of Origami Science, Mathematics, and Education Sponsored by Origami USA

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Going beyond folding instructions, Origami3 takes a unique and scholarly look at the implications and applications of this art. This collection of essays from The Third International Meeting of Origami Science, Math, and Education demonstrates the diversity of interests that origami inspires, discussing the theoretical and mathematical foundations of paper folding, applicable origami design techniques, and the use of origami as a teaching tool for mathematics and la... More >>

Origami 3: Third International Meeting of Origami Science, Mathematics, and Education Sponsored by Origami USA

Carving the Native American Face

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The native American face has long fascinated artists in every medium. Its strong features and deep character present a challenge and an opportunity for visual expression. In this new book, Terry Kramer offers the wood carver a method for creating realistic native American faces in wood. From layout to finish, Terry takes the carver step-by-step through the process. Each step is illustrated in full color and clearly described. A gallery of several carved faces gives ... More >>

Carving the Native American Face

Frederick Hart: Changing Tides

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A comprehensive look into the life and talent of a classical sculptor whose art - at once traditional in its adherence to the importance of the human figure, and radical in its sensuality and innovative use of materials - is represented in both his public commissions and private work.... More >>

Frederick Hart: Changing Tides

Carving Ornamental Miniature Flying Birds: With Patterns and Instructions for 16 Projects

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Step-by-step instructions, with 48 patterns and diagrams, will enable even beginning woodworkers to carve accurate small-scale models of northern cardinal, blue jay, red-winged blackbird, wood thrush, ruby-throated hummingbird, painted bunting, many other species. Introduction and instructions. 16 color illustrations on covers.
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Carving Ornamental Miniature Flying Birds: With Patterns and Instructions for 16 Projects

Olaf Breuning: Ugly

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Films, television, advertising, video clips, and computer games--all are fair game and useful material for Swiss artist Olaf Breuning. In his photographs, videos, and installations, Breuning engages with the reality of the vast array of media that surround us incessantly, day in and day out, appropriating narratives, images, and characters to create unforgettable and eerily familiar hybrids. Through unlikely medleys that juxtapose such disparate elements as the acco... More >>

Olaf Breuning: Ugly

Daumier

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Ranked alongside Ingres by Baudelaire as the finest draughtsman in Paris and matched as a political caricaturist in the nineteenth century only by Goya, Honor aumier worked for opposition newspapers throughout the Second Empire, one of the most corrupt and flamboyant periods in French history. He won fame, notoriety, and so a prison sentence, for his prodigious output of caricatures of prominent politicians and his relentless lampooning of the hypocrisy and pretent... More >>

Daumier

The Carving of Mount Rushmore

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This work tells the story of the spectacular artistic and engineering project of carving the American presidents' portraits on Mount Rushmore. It describes how it was conceived and carried out. The author was brought up in sight of Mount Rushmore and witnessed the work in progress.... More >>

The Carving of Mount Rushmore

Relief Carving With Bob Lundy: 'Scenery in Wood'

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Nationally known carver Bob Lundy shares the techniques of relief carving in an easy to follow book. Amply illustrated, it takes the reader step-by-step through two carving projects and offers the information needed to carry out even more. With everything carved by hand, the book is written for both the beginner and for the veteran. Bob Lundy approaches his work with an eye for the personality of the carving. He will instill that sensitivity to the reader, giving th... More >>

Relief Carving With Bob Lundy: 'Scenery in Wood'

The Woodburner's Guide - Practical Ways Of Heating With Wood!

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Have you dreamed of having a cozy home complete with a wood burning stove or fireplace?

At one time homes with wood burning stoves or fireplaces were the norm but they gradually grew out of vogue. Today they are once again fashionable but if you aren’t familiar with the proper way to operate them they could present a fire and safety hazard.

Instead of spending a fortune on so-called experts or knocking yourself out with the old trial and error method... More >>

The Woodburner's Guide - Practical Ways Of Heating With Wood!

Tania Kovats

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After completing her MA at the Royal College of Art in 1990, Tania Kovats (b.1966) won the Barclays Young Contemporaries award at the Serpentine Gallery in 1991. The intervening years have seen Kovats' early artistic promise grow and develop and today she stands as an important figure within British contemporary art. This monograph, the first of its kind, is a much-needed addition to the scant literature available on this original artist. The highly controversial V... More >>

Tania Kovats

Essentielle Schriften

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Die Serie "Meisterwerke der Literatur" beinhaltet die Klassiker der deutschen und weltweiten Literatur in einer einzigartigen Sammlung für Ihren eBook Reader. Lesen Sie die besten Werke großer Schriftsteller,Poeten, Autoren und Philosophen auf Ihrem Kindle Reader. Digital überarbeitet und in allerbester Qualität und bei den allermeisten Titeln inklusive eines interaktiven Inhaltsverzeichnisses für einfache Orientierung.

Die wichtigsten Schriften des ber

Hand to Earth: Andy Goldsworthy Sculpture 1976-1990

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First introduced to America through A Collaboration with Nature (1991), Goldsworthy's sculptures are created in the open from natural materials such as ice, leaves, rock, and clay, then photographed--to become award-winning pictures. Here nearly 200 illustrations--over 100 in color--make a fascinating collection.... More >>

Hand to Earth: Andy Goldsworthy Sculpture 1976-1990

Ana Mendieta: Earth Body

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This major monograph, a comprehensive reconsideration of the brief life and career of Ana Mendieta, contextualizes the artist's work within its time and acknowledges her legacy on subsequent generations of artists. The Cuban-born American sculptor is celebrated for her earth-body works of the 1970s, sculptural interventions in the landscape that placed her body--or its haunting silhouette--in symbiotic relationship with nature. Using extracts from her films, origina... More >>

Ana Mendieta: Earth Body

Batak Sculpture

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This lavishly illustrated book, which includes literally hundreds of previously unpublished masterpieces of Batak sculpture from the Delta Collection, will change that forever. This volume is enriched by insightful information from Achim Sibeth, one of th... More >>

Batak Sculpture

Mark Dion: Concerning Hunting

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For more than 20 years, American artist Mark Dion has had archive fever. Organized according to a quirky system of categorization, his tableaux of dusty collections consist of stuffed bears, tarred birds and scientific tools, which are exhibited on tables, piled in corners or arranged on the floor. Borrowing their methodologies from paleontology or archeology, Dion's installations, interventions, performances and photographs critique how our culture reconciles its c... More >>

Mark Dion: Concerning Hunting

Origami from Angelfish to Zen

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Brief history, basic techniques, and step-by-step instructions for 24 projects: hummingbird, giraffe, butterfly, kangaroo, more.
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Origami from Angelfish to Zen

Romuald Hazoume: My Paradise

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The Beninese assemblage virtuoso Romuald Hazoume (born 1962) transforms plastic jugs and other discarded materials into masks and sculptural installations that explore the nexus of ritual and industrialization. Hazoume mines the space of economic and psychic transaction between Africa and Europe--both the literal exchange of goods and the mutual delusion that paradise lies within the other.... More >>

Romuald Hazoume: My Paradise

Sculpture in the Age of Doubt

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Framed in a lucid discussion of the intellectual issues surrounding the postmodern movement, the essays in this book re-examine the course of twentieth-century art through the work of twenty-five major sculptors. McEvilley masterfully traces the evolution of modern sculpture from the readymades of Marcel Duchamp to the anti-painting statements of the 1960s to the spiritualism and conceptualism of the 1980s and 1990s. This is a groundbreaking work in the field of art... More >>

Sculpture in the Age of Doubt

The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece

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In 1452, Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti unveiled a masterpiece that had been a quarter-century in the making: ten bronze panels depicting intricate scenes from the Old Testament. The monumental gilded bronze doors (each more than 15 feet tall) were designed for the Baptistery in the Piazza del Duomo in Florence. Centuries of admirers have considered “The Gates of Paradise” one of the great masterworks of Western art. This extensively illustrated book displ... More >>

The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece

Hans Josephsohn

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Hans Josephsohn is one of the premier Swiss sculptors working today. For more than sixty years, he has sculpted numerous arresting figures and busts that capture the tensions of our age. Gerhard Mack brings Josephsohn’s work to the wider world in this in-depth look at the artist and the impact of his sculpture. 

Mack traces Josephsohn’s evolution as an artist, charting his initial years and first successes as he broke onto the scene and carved out a plac... More >>

Hans Josephsohn

Carving Sea Life: Bottlenose Dolphin

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Focuses on one carving project, with variations suitable for beginners, intermediates, and experts. All titles in the series include information on anatomy and biology, valuable carving tips, and ready-to-use patterns.... More >>

Carving Sea Life: Bottlenose Dolphin

Bigger, Better More:The Art of Viola Frey

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At times, photographer, painter, sculptor but always a ceramicist Viola Frey was a particularly innovative artist who found inspiration in everyday objects and materials. Best known for her large-scale statues, or monumental figures and bricolage assemblages, her work is often referred to as anthropological in its many references to popular culture, the visual arts and the history of ceramics. Having studied as a graduate student under Mark Rothko, Frey's art also ... More >>

Bigger, Better More:The Art of Viola Frey

Robert Indiana

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Robert Indiana, famous as a pioneering Pop artist in the 1960s, and renowned for making his "LOVE" sculptures, paintings and posters so famous that the United States Postal Service put it on a stamp, is this year experiencing a monumental comeback in New York City with a new installation of colorful numbers along Park Avenue titled "One Through Zero" and simultaneous shows at C&M Arts and Paul Kasmin Gallery. This volume looks at Indiana's hugely influential early P... More >>

Robert Indiana

Origami: The Complete Practical Guide to the Ancient Art of Paperfolding

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Origami is an ancient Japanese craft that has grown into a 21st-century art form. In this fantastic book, traditional classics, such as the famous Japanese crane, sit side by side with modern pieces designed by the world's most respected origamists.... More >>

Origami: The Complete Practical Guide to the Ancient Art of Paperfolding

The Sculptor's Bible: The All-media Reference To Surface Effects And How To Achieve Them

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This handy full-color reference guides sculptors through enhancing any sculpture with dramatic surface effects and finishes. The Sculptor's Bible covers everything from selecting surfaces, carving wood and modeling clay to utilizing various surface techniques to create stunning pieces. More than 400 detailed color photos demonstrate techniques and surfaces, while introduction sections provide background about various surfaces including stone, wood, cement and mo... More >>

The Sculptor's Bible: The All-media Reference To Surface Effects And How To Achieve Them

Stairs

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First published in the early 1980s to great success, Stairs is now available to a new generation of readers. This unique interactive book surpasses all language barriers, enriching the traditional pop-up book format with fresh, timeless imagery. Its emphasis on visual detail-and its absence of text-makes it a source of simple pleasure and serenity. With 10 pop-up stairs, each with its own uniquely complex construction, Stairs is more than entertainment-it is an i... More >>

Stairs