This longtime best-seller shows how a famous sculptor creates a complete figure in clay. Covers the skeleton, male and female anatomical figures, and skin and hair. ...

Los Angeles-based sculptor, performance and installation artist Mike Kelley is one of the most important American artists to have emerged from the 1980s. Best known for his assemblage sculptures made from stuffed children's toys, often set upon the 'stage' of a homemade afghan, Kelley draws from popular culture as well as the modernist traditions of the found object and collage to comment on late twentieth-century American society. Familiar with ...

Thorough step-by-step guide discusses anatomy of horse, lion, and bull; methods of construction; tools, materials, etc. Also comprehensive exposition of casting in plaster. 63 full-page photographic plates. 138 drawings and diagrams.<BR> ...

Expands on the original work that first introduced artists and artisans to the materials, tools, and techniques used to create original wax models for jewelry--both fine pieces and costume jewelry. ...

Full-page illustrations celebrate the power of Michelangelo's artistic achievement in sculpture. ...

A book of photography of mountains and waters. ...

Renowned contemporary sculptor Bruno Lucchesi takes a single life-size head through all the stages of rough in, modeling, refining the surface, and finishing and texturing, enabling the reader to see exactly how he positions and models every detail. The book demonstrates not just highlights of the creative process, but every step from beginning to end. ...

The art of the Haida of the Queen Charlotte Islands and Alaska ranks among the most sophisticated and spectacular art traditions of the world. While Haida art has long been recognized as central to the development of the highly formalized northern Northwest Coast style of design, it has often been viewed as somewhat static and anonymous. Robin Wright highlights for the first time the distinctive achievements of several of the most important ...

In order to experiment with this concept, Jan Hoet and Giacinto Di Pietrantonio gave over 55 artists access to the corners and edges of braidings in the old town center of Ghent. The result is an extremely varied group of works and installations. ...

J. Christopher White's sculptures, lovingly carved from West Texas juniper, are honored in this book. White uses dead-standing or fallen West Texas juniper, which can live to be 2,000 years old and only grows in the panhandle. He uses hand tools to carve his sculptures -- each cut revealing golden-colored heartwood under the weathered gray exterior. ...