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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms
The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe ("Swallow") was the world's first
operational jet-powered fighter aircraft. Design work started even
before World War II began, but engine problems meant the aircraft
did not reach operational status until mid-1944. Compared with
Allied fighters of its day, including the jet-powered Gloster
Meteor, it was much faster and better armed. In combat, it proved
supremely difficult to counter due to its speed and the design was
pressed into a variety of roles, including light bomber,
reconnaissance and even experimental night fighter versions. The Me
262 is considered to have been the most advanced German aviation
design in operational use during World War II. The Allies countered
its potential effectiveness in the air by relentlessly attacking
the aircraft on the ground, or while they were taking off or
landing. This book provides a complete modelling guide with
numerous profiles, line drawings and photographs. This book is
written entirely in German.
Illustrated in colour with photographs of the artist's sculptures
and reproductions of his graphic works, this title covers six
decades of his artistic output and tells the story of his life. It
includes his manifesto which gives the reader invaluable insight
into the mind and soul of the artist. It was launched on the
artist's 77th birthday in February 2010. Bill's impressive
curriculum vitae includes details of his numerous solo and group
exhibitions, prizes, public and private commissions, and of the
public collections that include works of his, including the Iziko
National Gallery in Cape Town. Major influences in Bill's training
were Professor Lippy Lipschitz, Russell Harvey, May Hillhouse and
Katrina Harries at the Michaelis School of Fine Art of the
University of Cape Town, and Professor P Esser at the Rijksakademie
van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Cecil Higgs was a great friend
and mentor who convinced Bill in 1971 that he must leave teaching
and work full-time as a sculptor. The book provides fascinating
insights into the institutions in which he studied and the artistic
milieu in South Africa. In 2008, when Bill was recovering from
lymphoma and months of debilitating treatment, Jane Raphaely
commissioned a portrait bust of Nelson Mandela for the Mandela
Rhodes Foundation, which now graces the entrance foyer of the
Foundation's headquarters in St George's Mall in Cape Town. Bill
continues his work in his studio in Vermont near Hermanus in the
Western Cape. When the writing was nearing completion Jan Mostert
joined the team. His expertise in design and his part in choosing
the illustrative material have made a significant contribution to
the beauty of the production, as do David Richardson's excellent
photographs. The book includes a catalogue of Bill's works from
1952 to 2009, and is fully indexed.
Lena Mattsson (*1966) is a distinguished Swedish artist. Her
practice includes photography, performance and social critique, as
well as film and video art. Her new book encompasses her whole
career, yet at the same time, it highlights her most recent works
and future perspectives: especially Mattsson’s works on legendary
Swedish publisher Bo Cavefors or her latest experiments with light
and projections. The selection of photographs, film stills, and
documentary material forms the basis for the profound discussion of
her work by Lars Gustaf Andersson, John Peter Nilsson, and
Charlotte Wiberg.
Published on the occasion of Ali Kaaf's exhibition Ich bin ein
Fremder. Zweifach Fremder at the Museum fur Islamische Kunst in the
Pergamonmuseum Berlin, the catalogue documents the sculptural
intervention created in the context of the Mschatta Facade. The
eventful history of this icon of Islamic architectural culture is
not only a metaphor for human existence, but also equally for the
biography of the German-Syrian artist. The volume is augmented to
include works on paper from past groups of works in the Rift series
and Byzantine Corner, which illustrate Kaaf's intermedial working
method. In subtle, abstract imagery, he works with layerings,
incisions, burns, photography and digital image processing. Through
the artistic exploration of breakages and reassemblages, complex
spatial voids emerge that reflect both intercultural and internal
processes.
This generously illustrated book provides a complete overview of
current knowledge about the sculptures of the Parthenon and
suggests new interpretations of the ancient temple's sculptural
creations. Margaretha Lagerlof steps back from viewing the
fragments of the sculptures that remain today to focus more clearly
on their meanings in the light of classical Athenian knowledge and
society. She considers what the sculptures reveal about the Greek
sense of democracy and how they characterize women's lives in a
warrior culture. Using Plato's philosophy and the visually oriented
similes of his myths, Lagerlof offers a new decoding of the
aesthetic structure of the Parthenon's entire sculptural ensembles.
The book compares the sculptures of the pediments to those of
the metopes and the frieze, uncovering subtle differences in both
the nature and the content of the images. Whereas the pediments
represent divine elements, for example, the frieze is seen as the
domain of human beings, representing events and also the stage of
history when humans no longer have direct access to the presence of
the gods. The frieze can be interpreted as an invocation of this
presence, a means of regaining closeness with the gods. Using a
multifaceted and imaginative approach to the sculptures of the
Parthenon, Lagerlof finds powerful new meaning in them as well as
an enhanced appreciation of their Athenian creators.
Jana Sophia Nolle's (*1986) Living Room is a conceptual
photographic study documenting temporary homeless shelters
recreated in various San Francisco living rooms. The artist worked
closely with unhoused persons to understand their improvised
dwellings and subsequently approached wealthy people to reconstruct
and photograph these shelters in their homes. While Nolle forms an
aesthetically striking photographic "inventory, a typology of
improvised dwellings, cataloging their various attributes", her
photographs confront the urging socio-political dichotomy of lives
most precious and lives most precarious.
Peter Macnair and Alan Hoover recount the history of Haida
argillite carving since it began in the early 1800s, and they
describe more than 200 examples from the extensive collection of
the Royal BC Museum. Argillite is a dense, black shale mined from a
quarry on Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), reserved for the
exclusive use of Haida carvers. Argillite works are unique in style
and character, ranging from ceremonial pipes and model poles to
elaborate platters and chests. "The careful scholarship of Peter
Macnair and Alan Hoover has ensured that The Magic Leaves remains
an authoritative text on the types, subjects and history of
argillite carving. Argillite carvings made for the souvenir,
ethnographic and fine-art markets maintained and developed
Indigenous stylistic and narrative traditions. The beautiful black
slate of Haida Gwaii continues to be a vehicle for profound
expressions of Haida history and artistic innovation." - Dr. Martha
Black, from the Foreword.
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Giacometti
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Megan Fontanella, Karole P. B. Vail
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Pedro de Mena y Medrano (1628-1688) is the most highly regarded
master of Spanish Baroque sculpture, on a par with his
contemporaries, the great seventeenth-century painters Velazquez,
Zurbaran and Murillo. Mena's contributions to Spanish Baroque
sculpture are unsurpassed in both technical skill and
expressiveness of his religious subjects. His ability to sculpt the
human body was remarkable, and he excelled in creating figures and
scenes for contemplation. This first monograph of Pedro de Mena
shows incredible details and remarkable images of his
hyper-realistic sculptures, full of passion. In addition to text by
curator Xavier Bray, Pedro de Mena also features important
contributions by Jose Luis Romeo Torres, curator of the exhibition
Pedro de Mena, to be held in Malaga in 2019.
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Emilio Vedova
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Emilio Vedova; Edited by Germano Celant; Text written by Germano Celant
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Installation art has become mainstream in artistic practices.
However, acquiring and displaying such artworks implies that
curators and conservators are challenged to deal with obsolete
technologies, ephemeral materials and other issues concerning care
and management of these artworks. By analysing three in-depth case
studies, the author sheds new light on the key concepts of
traditional conservation (authenticity, artist's intention, and the
notion of ownership) while exploring how these concepts apply in
contemporary art conservation. Based on original empirical research
and cross-case analysis, this ground-breaking study offers a
re-examination of traditional conservation values and ethics, and
argues for a reassessment of the role of the conservator of
contemporary art.
The texture of memory and the ability of art and film to bear
witness to traumatic events are delicately approached in this
book-length essay by a Mekas cinephile. For years, filmmaker
Peter Delpeut has had Jonas Mekas's Movie
Journal within easy reach of his desk. Since his student
days, he has been a great admirer of the Lithuanian-American
‘Godfather of avant-garde cinema’. Until he was startled in
June 2018 by an article in The New York Review of Books. Historian
Michael Casper claimed that Mekas had deliberately forgotten or
misrepresented certain events during World War II. Seeded by this
controversy over Mekas’s memories of his Lithuanian youth and
Mekas’s pain over his subsequent exile, Delpeut’s essayistic
and self-reflective book flowers into an inquiry about memory and
forgetting; the moral compass of the future that cannot find its
bearing in the past; the abilities of art to witness; and the roles
we all must play in writing the adequate history of events too
traumatic for a just accounting. Although there is little
doubt that Mekas himself never participated in the horrors of the
Holocaust in Lithuania, his silence about the fate of his Jewish
countrymen and neighbors could be said to enable a rewriting of
history, at the sacrifice of witness testimonies. As Delpeut
follows Mekas through films, diaries, his public performances, his
speeches, and finally his testimony given to the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), he encounters an impasse for
which he was not prepared.
Woodcarving remains one of the most popular crafts in the U.S. and
continues to grow in popularity. While there are many books on how
to carve wood, including Taunton's popular How to Carve Wood
(1985), this book provides inspiration for carvers through original
patterns. Any carver knows that once the technique is mastered, the
greatest challenge is finding clear, well-illustrated designs to
carve. This book solves that problem by offering a wide variety of
carefully detailed drawings of designs especially suited to
carving.
Trained in European carving and drawing techniques,
artist/author Lora Irish presents an extensive library of
ornamental designs with a traditional look. Included here are
classic ornamental motifs from 18th century and other period
furniture as well as original designs by the author. The motifs
include line designs, triangular designs, square and rectangular
designs, circular and oval designs, S- and C-curve designs,
mirror-image designs, and free-form designs.
The book can be used in number of ways: The drawings can be
adapted to the carver's preference or used directly as patterns,
easily enlarged by photocopying and transferred directly to the
wood to be carved. The patterns can also be used in other
woodcrafts including woodburning and woodpainting.
Is there such a thing as "Impressionist sculpture"? Since 1881 when
Edgar Degas presented Little Dancer Aged Fourteen at the Sixth
Impressionist Exhibition in Paris, the term has existed along with
the discourse around it. This book is dedicated to the extensive
examination of the question what it would mean to translate the
characteristics of Impressionist painting, such as light, colour,
ephemerality, and the ethereal, into sculpture. The book features a
selection of artists including Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and
Medardo Rosso and examines the artistic processes that traverse
genres in which one medium is enhanced by others. This valuable,
fascinating resource offers a unique addition to the scholarship on
the Impressionist era.
Developed in the early 1950s to meet a Soviet Army requirement and
first flown in June 1957, the Mi-6 was the largest-yet helicopter
created in the Soviet Union. Its notable features included a
power-plant consisting of two turbo-shaft engines (for the first
time on a Soviet helicopter) and stub wings offloading the main
rotor in forward flight; the cabin was big enough to accommodate
artillery systems and tactical ballistic missiles. Built by two
plants, the Mi-6 saw service with the Soviet Air Force (including
participation in the Afghan War) and the air arms of several Soviet
allies. It also proved valuable as a civil air-lifter during
oilfield exploration in Siberia, remaining in service right the way
up to 2002. A worthy successor to the Mi-6 appeared in 1977 - the
Mi-26. With its 20-ton payload, it was (and still is) the world's
largest and most capable transport helicopter. Again, the Mi-26 had
both military and commercial uses (the former included
participation in several armed conflicts); the type is still in
production, being updated to meet modern requirements, and has been
exported to several countries in Asia and Latin America.The book
describes the history, variants and service career of the Mil' 'big
lifters' and contains a detailed overview of the scale model kits
covering these types which are currently available on the market.
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Bernini
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Giovanni Careri
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This text explores three of Bernini's baroque chapels to show how
Bernini achieved his effects. Careri examines the ways in which the
artist integrated the disparate forms of architecture, painting and
sculpture into a coherant space for devotion, and then shows how
this accomplishment was understood by religious practitioners. In
the Fonseca Chapel, the Albertoni Chapel and the church of Saint
Andrea al Quirinale, all in Rome, Careri identifies three types of
ensemble and links each to a particular spiritual journey. Using
contemporary theories in anthropology, film and reception
aesthetics, he shows how Bernini's formal mechanisms established an
emotional dynamic between the beholder and a specific arrangement
of forms.
How does photography shape the way we see sculpture? In "David
Smith in Two Dimensions," Sarah Hamill broaches this question
through an in-depth consideration of the photography of American
sculptor David Smith (1906-1965). Smith was a modernist known for
radically shifting the terms of sculpture, a medium traditionally
defined by casting, modeling, and carving. He was the first to use
industrial welding as a sustained technique for large-scale
sculpture, influencing a generation of minimalists to come. What is
less known about Smith is his use of the camera to document his own
sculptures as well as everyday objects, spaces, and bodies. His
photographs of sculptures were published in countless exhibition
catalogs, journals, and newspapers, often as anonymous
illustrations. Far from being neutral images, these photographs
direct a pictorial encounter with spatial form and structure the
public display of his work.
"David Smith in Two Dimensions" looks at the sculptor's adoption of
unconventional backdrops, alternative vantage points, and unusual
lighting effects and exposures to show how he used photography to
dramatize and distance objects. This comprehensive and penetrating
account also introduces Smith's expansive archive of copy prints,
slides, and negatives, many of which are seen here for the first
time. Hamill proposes a new understanding of Smith's sculpture
through photography, exploring issues that are in turn vital to
discourses of modern sculpture, sculptural aesthetics, and postwar
art. In Smith's photography, we see an artist moving fluidly
between media to define what a sculptural object was and how it
would be encountered publicly.
This second volume on Early Cycladic (and Cycladicising) sculptures
found in the Aegean, examines finds from mainland Greece, along
with the rarer items from the north and east Aegean, with the
exception of those discovered in the Cyclades (covered in the
preceding volume), and of those found in Crete. The significance of
these finds is that these are the principal testimonies of the
influence of the Early Bronze Age Cycladic cultures in the wider
Aegean. This influence is shown both by the export of sculptures
produced in the Cyclades (and made of Cycladic marble), and of
their imitations, produced elsewhere in the Aegean, usually of
local marble. They hold the key, therefore, to the cultural
interactions developing at this time, the so-called 'international
spirit' manifest particularly during the Aegean Early Bronze II
period.This was the time when the foundations of early Aegean
civilisation were being laid, and the material documented is thus
of considerable significance. The volume is divided into sections
wherein contributions examine finds and their archaeological,
social, and economic contexts from specific regions. It concludes
with an overview of the significance and role of these objects in
Early Bronze Age societies of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean
region. This will be the first time that this material has been
systematically gathered together. Highly illustrated, it follows
and builds on the successful preceding volume, Early Cycladic
Sculpture in Context (Oxbow 2016).
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