In this illuminating survey, one of Brittan's ablest and most articulate sculptors gives an artist's view of what really happened when, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, sculpture re-emerged from centries of semi-eclipse. ...

The exhibition catalog is the first survey of Gothic ivories in English. It contains essays by seven leading international scholars, including Peter Barnet (Gothic Sculpture in Ivory: An Introduction), Elizabeth Sears (Ivory and Ivory-Workers in Medieval Paris), Richard H. Randall, Jr. (Popular Romances Carved in Ivory), Harvey Stahl (Narrative Structure and Content in Some Gothic Ivories of the Life of Christ), Charles T. Little (Opera ...

This newest addition to the Museum's popular Looking At series provides definitions of the technical terms most often encountered by museum-goers and student of post-antique European sculpture. The book enhances the appreciation of the art form by explaining the methods used in creating
sculpture and the terms used by scholars to describe it. Featured are clear, concise explanations to questions such as: What is a socle? What are the steps in ...

The Watts Towers, located in south-central Los Angeles, are the monumental work of one man: Simon Rodia. Born in Ribottoli, Italy c. 1879, Rodia immigrated to the U.S. when he was about fifteen. In 1921, he purchased a triangular-shaped lot at the end of a dead-end L.A. street and over the next thirty years he worked single-handedly--without machine equipment, scaffolding, bolts, rivets, welds, or drawing-board designs--to build the nine ...

Encourage elementary and middle school-age kids to build their clay-sculpting skills at home with these lessons and projects. They'll model a pinch pot, coil animals, fossils, vases, masks, and tiles that they can embellish with rubber stamps. Best of all, these projects will foster children's confidence in their abilities and stimulate new ideas.
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This book documents two related installation projects by Juan Munoz commissioned by Dia Center for the Arts: "A Place Called Abroad," created at Dia, and "Streetwise," created at Site Santa Fe. Munoz deconstructed the gallery spaces, diagonally cutting through existing walls, in order to create a fictional street. As Lynne Cooke notes, Munoz's street "offers the framework, the props, and the trappings of a narrative without supplying the terms in ...

From simple variations on brown paper bags to bal masque designs, plaster and plasticene molds--the whole range! ...

247 photographs of masks, identified by tribe, place, and ritual use. Dogon, Senufo, and many more included. ...

Few artists have achieved the national prominence of Mahonri Young (1877-1957). A grandson of Brigham Young, he conceived and sculpted the Sea Gull and This Is the Place monuments. As a New York artist, he received accolades for his statuettes of street workers and for the first life-size statue of an African American. In Hollywood one of his bas-reliefs featured a woman in nylon stockings. For all of this Life magazine called Young "the George ...

Exhaustive, profusely illustrated guide to technical aspects of sculpting in stone, metal, wood, other materials. Tools, techniques, modelling, casting, firing, much more. 281 illustrations.
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