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  • Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà and its Afterlives

    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This book offers a fresh perspective on Michelangelo’s well-known masterpiece, the Vatican Pietà, by tracing the shifting meaning of the work of art over time.Lisa M. Rafanelli chronicles the object history of the Vatican Pietà and the active role played by its many reproductions. The sculpture has been on continuous view for over 500 years, during which time its cultural, theological, and ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Changing Concept of Reality in Art

    "The transmutation of artistic form," writes Erwin Rosenthal, "depends on individual decisions and cultural development. But there are basic laws of self-expression which do not change, which are perpetual because they accord with the structure of the human mind and soul." These penetrating studies explore the deep psychological and formal affinities between defining figures of their epochs—from ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay

    A Guide to Capturing the Human Form for Ceramic Artists

    Series series Mastering Ceramics
    Explore the human form in depth, from concept sketches and armatures to detailed instructions for constructing legs, torso, arms, hands, and head from clay.In Mastering Sculpture: The Figure in Clay, renowned sculptor and instructor****Cristina Córdova teaches everything you need to know to replicate the full human figure using clay.Start by developing meaningful sketches and reference points.Then ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Sculpture at Sindin Galleries: April 1980

    Images of victimization, images of blindness, images of impotence: they are animated, all of them, by Milo Lazarevic’s indignation. Also, they are familiar, whether they are men or women. Who among us has not felt something (society, bureaucracy, an institution) pressing down, clamping us in place? ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia

    Miniaturization and Cultural Hybridity

    In this volume, Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper investigates the impact of Greek art on the miniature figure sculptures produced in Babylonia after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Figurines in Hellenistic Babylonia were used as agents of social change, by visually expressing and negotiating cultural differences. The scaled-down quality of figurines encouraged both visual and tactile engagement, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • English Painting

    The English school of painting was officially recognised at the beginning of the 18th century through the work of William Hogarth. It includes works by the most famous English artists, such as Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph Mallord William Turner, John Constable, Edward Burne-Jones, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This subject is introduced with a very unique text, published in 1882: a French study of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame

    Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity

    Most of the seven million people who visit the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris each year probably do not realize that the legendary gargoyles adorning this medieval masterpiece were not constructed until the nineteenth century. The first comprehensive history of these world-famous monsters, The Gargoyles of Notre-Dame argues that they transformed the iconic thirteenth-century cathedral into a ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Late Birth of a Great Artist: Piotr Michałowski’s Sketchbook of 1832

    The book covers a very special moment in the life of Piotr Michałowski (1800–55), the most outstanding painter of Polish Romanticism. In his early life, Michałowski built a career as a technocrat and later became head of the state-owned heavy industry. At the time, he proved himself a brilliant amateur salon painter. During the anti-Russian uprising of 1830–31, he was responsible for producing ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Unexpected Art

    Serendipitous Installations, Site-Specific Works, and Surprising Interventions

    Graffiti made from cake icing, man-made clouds floating indoors, a luminous moon resting on water. Collected here are dozens of jaw-dropping artworks—site-specific installations, extraordinary sculptures, and groundbreaking interventions in public spaces—that reveal the exciting things that happen when contemporary artists play with the idea of place. Unexpected Art showcases the wonderfully ... Read more

    $15.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • House

    An overview of a series of installations made in the artists' home in Greenwich, 2001-2011, supported by Cafe Gallery Projects.Each section of the book documents a different project. Each section is introduced by the artist.Fran Cottell is a Senior Lecturer at Camberwell College, CCW, University of the Arts London.Essay by Katy Deepwell, art critic and editor of n.paradoxa; international feminist ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Necessity of Sculpture

    by Eric Gibson ...
    The Necessity of Sculpture brings together a selection of articles on sculpture and sculptors from Eric Gibson’s nearly four-decade career as an art critic. It covers subjects as diverse as Mesopotamian cylinder seals, war memorials, and the art of the American West; stylistic periods such as the Hellenistic in Ancient Greece and Kamakura in medieval Japan; Michelangelo, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Angel and Gateshead

    The Angel of the North is Britain's best known public artwork. Controversy erupted in 1994 when Gateshead Council announced its plans to create this sculpture, twenty metres high with the wingspan of a jumbo jet airliner. Despite an organised political campaign to stop the Angel being built, the Leader of Gateshead Council was steadfast in his support for the project. This is the entertaining true ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Helen Chadwick

    Constructing Identities Between Art and Architecture

    Highly respected by her peers and hugely influential on the subsequent generation of artists, the British artist Helen Chadwick produced a wideranging body of work in a variety of media, which shifted from early institutional and architectural critique to operatic installations, and to photographic projects and sculptures. Stephen Walker looks behind this apparent variety, identifying a consistent ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Temptation of Non-Being

    Negativity in Aesthetics

    Series series Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy
    Why do we enjoy artworks that depict disasters and suffering? Is this a hangover from the Modernist impulse to break the rules of harmony? Is there actually a proper way to perform negativity in art without resorting to nihilism? The Temptation of Non-Being uses these fundamental questions to paint a picture of contemporary art as beset by an outbreak of the negative, and to construct a new theory ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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  • Gold, Silver, and Bronze

    Metal Sculpture of the Roman Baroque

    Series Book 35 - Bollingen Series
    An in-depth look at the exquisite metal sculpture of the Roman baroqueRoman baroque sculpture is usually thought of in terms of large-scale statues in marble and bronze, tombs, or portrait busts. Smaller bronze statuettes are often overlooked, and the extensive production of sculptural silver—much of which is now lost but can be studied from drawings—is frequently omitted from the histories of art ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Thomas Hirschhorn

    Deleuze Monument

    by Anna Dezeuze ...
    Series series Afterall Books / One Work
    An illustrated examination of one of Hirschhorn's “precarious” monuments, now dismantled.Part-text, part-sculpture, part-architecture, part-junk heap, Thomas Hirschhorn's often monumental but precarious works offer a commentary on the spectacle of late-capitalist consumerism and the global proliferation of commodities. Made from ephemeral materials—cardboard, foil, plastic bags, and packing tape ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • David Smith

    The Art and Life of a Transformational Sculptor

    “An essential account of America’s greatest sculptor . . . [A] magnum opus.” —Marjorie Perloff, The Times Literary SupplementThe landmark biography of the inscrutable and brilliant David Smith, the greatest American sculptor of the twentieth century.David Smith, a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, did more than any other sculptor of his era to bring the plastic arts to the forefront of the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Auguste Rodin

    Influenced by the masters of Antiquity, the genius of Michelangelo and Baroque sculpture, particularly of Bernini, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is one of the most renowned artists in history. Though Rodin is considered a founder of modern sculpture, he did not set out to critique past classical traditions. Many of his sculptures were criticised and considered controversial because of their sensuality ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Recovering Place

    Reflections on Stone Hill

    by Taylor ...
    Series Book 17 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    Mark C. Taylor recounts a poignant love affair not with a person but with a place that, paradoxically, cannot be easily localized. For many years, Taylor has lived in the Berkshire Mountains, where he writes and creates land art and sculpture. In a world of mobile screens and virtual realities, where speed is the measure of success and place is disappearing, his work slows down thought and brings ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Material Bernini

    Edited by Evonne Levy, Carolina Mangone ...
    Series series Visual Culture in Early Modernity
    Bringing together established and emerging specialists in seventeenth-century Italian sculpture, Material Bernini is the first sustained examination of the conspicuous materiality of Bernini’s work in sculpture, architecture, and paint. The various essays demonstrate that material Bernini has always been tied (whether theologically, geologically, politically, or in terms of art theory) to his ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Late Birth of a Great Artist: Piotr Michałowski’s Sketchbook of 1832

    The book covers a very special moment in the life of Piotr Michałowski (1800–55), the most outstanding painter of Polish Romanticism. In his early life, Michałowski built a career as a technocrat and later became head of the state-owned heavy industry. At the time, he proved himself a brilliant amateur salon painter. During the anti-Russian uprising of 1830–31, he was responsible for producing ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • SEEING SAM RICHARDS' SCULPTURE

    Seeing Sam Richards' Sculpture is a thorough examination of this 20th century American artist's life's work. More than 190 black and white and color photographs beautifully illustrate Richards' abstract sculpture.Richards made both intimate arrangements and large gestural configurations in steel and wood, always at human scale. The monograph reveals his constant experimentation with freestanding ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Livio Orazio Valentini

    An Artist's Spiritual Odyssey

    An illustrated biography celebrating the life and legacy of a renowned Italian artistIn this illustrated biography of the late Italian artist, Livio Orazio Valentini: An Artist's Spiritual Odyssey, Robert E. Alexander and John A. Elliott celebrate the life and legacy of the renowned painter and sculptor while acknowledging his special relationship with the people of Aiken, South Carolina.Born to a ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mythic Giacometti

    by James Lord ...
    The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) was arguably the greatest sculptor of the twentieth century. He was also--as James Lord persuasively argued in Giacometti: A Biography--a heroic figure whose vocation sustained him through a life of crippling anxiety and erotic guilt.Almost twenty years after it first appeared, Giacometti has attained the status of a classic, one of the most candid and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD