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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms
The streets and public spaces of London are rich with statues and
monuments commemorating the city's great figures and events - from
Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square and Sir Christopher Wren's
Great Fire Monument to the charming Peter Pan statue in Kensington
Gardens. Executed in stone, bronze and a range of other materials,
London's statues and monuments include work by some of the world's
greatest sculptors, such as Edwin Lutyens and Sir Christopher Wren.
This newly revised book takes account of the many new statues
erected between 2012 and 2017, including those of Mary Seacole at
St Thomas' Hospital and Amy Winehouse in Camden, and is a fully
illustrated guide to the works and their stories: sometimes
surprising and occasionally controversial, but always fascinating.
Over the course of 60-plus years, Erwin Hauer has created modular
sculptures that feature penetrations and prominent interior voids
yet, remarkably, are bonded by continuous surfaces. The modules of
these sculptures contain the seeds of infinity: what Hauer calls
'continua'. Still Facing Infinity covers the full scope of Hauer's
artistic oeuvre, from early two-dimensional works that double as
room dividers to three-dimensional, space-filling sculptures that
are conceptually similar to innovative architecture and engineering
(works by Antoni Gaudi, Felix Candela, and Frei Otto) as well as
advanced mathematical concepts (triply periodic infinite surfaces
without self-intersections). Hauer offers detailed presentations in
writings as well as in abundant photographs of a number of
significant works, including Jerusalem Tower and Infinite Surface
I-WP, the basis for numerous tabletop and large-scale sculptures as
well as for two independent series that explore multiple iterations
of the infinite surface concept.
When was the Dome of the Rock built and what meanings was the
structure meant to convey to viewers at the time of its
construction? These are questions that have preoccupied historians
of Islamic art and architecture, and numerous interpretations of
the Dome of the Rock have been proposed. This book returns to one
of the most important pieces of evidence: the mosaic inscriptions
running around the two faces of the octagonal arcade. Detailed
examination of the physical characteristics, morphology and content
of these inscriptions provides new evidence concerning: the
chronology of the planning, construction, and decoration of the
building; the iconography of the Dome of the Rock; the evolution of
Arabic epigraphy in the early Islamic period; and the public
expression of religious concepts under the Umayyad caliphs.
Im Rahmen der aktuellen Diskussion zur asthetischen und kulturellen
Bildung gehen Autorinnen und Autoren unterschiedlicher
kulturwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen der Frage nach, was
asthetische Erfahrungen sind. Indem sie interdisziplinar sowie
asthetisch-transformatorisch arbeiten, koennen sie eroertern, wie
sich etwas derart Fluchtiges und der Subjektivitat Verhaftetes
empirisch fassen und in Bildungsinstitutionen initiieren und
vermitteln lasst. In den Projekten verlassen die Teilnehmerinnen
und Teilnehmer den gewohnten Lernort, ubersetzen Materialien in
Sprache und Schrift, Texte in Film oder Literatur in Tanz oder
werden dazu angehalten, ihre eigenen Wahrnehmungsmuster zu
hinterfragen.
A beautiful book on the famed Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas
The Chinati Foundation, a world-famous destination for large-scale
contemporary art, was founded by Donald Judd (1928-1994) to
preserve and present a select number of permanent installations
that were inextricably linked to the surrounding landscape in
Marfa, Texas. This handsome publication, first published in 2010
and now available with a new chapter devoted to the permanent
installation by Robert Irwin that was inaugurated in 2016 and a new
foreword by Jenny Moore, director of the Chinati Foundation,
describes how Judd developed his ideas of the role of art and
museums from the early 1960s onward, culminating in the creation of
Chinati. The individual installations featured here include work by
John Chamberlain, Dan Flavin, David Rabinowitch, Roni Horn, Ilya
Kabakov, Richard Long, Ingolfur Arnarsson, Carl Andre, Claes
Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen, and John Wesley, as well as by
Judd himself. The book also features a complete catalogue of the
collection and writings by Judd relating to Chinati and Marfa.
Published in association with the Chinati Foundation/La Fundacion
Chinati
This comprehensive survey of sculpture in Britain from the
Reformation to the accession of Queen Victoria aims to shed light
on English taste in the period. It examines the family tomb and the
portrait bust, the forms of sculpture most favoured in Britain at
that time.
Can we reconstruct Roman body language? Was it the same as ours?
Does body language express and reinforce gender differences and the
relative positions of men and women (dominant/subordinate) in
society? Can analysis of the postures and gestures of Roman statues
add to our understanding of gender in the Roman world? In this
book, Glenys Davies explores these questions. Using studies on body
language in modern Western societies, Roman literary sources, as
well as her own analysis of statues of Roman men and women in an
array of guises - nude, draped, standing, seated and represented
together - she offers a nuanced and complex picture of gender
relations. Her study shows that gender relations in the notoriously
patriarchal society of Ancient Rome were not so different from what
we experience today. Her book will be of interest to scholars of
the classical world, gender history, art history, and body language
in its social context.
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Antico
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Eleonora Luciano, et al
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This publication will be the only available English-language
monograph to date on sixteenth-century sculptor Pier Jacopo Alari
Bonacolsi (c. 1455-1528), who earned the nickname 'Antico' with his
highly refined reductions of Greco-Roman antiquities. His bronzes -
many of which were produced at the brilliant court of Isabella
d'Este at Mantua - were remarkable for being meticulously cast and
finely cleaned and finished, designed for close appreciation in the
privacy of a courtly studio. His black patination and exquisite
detailing, such as gilded hair and silver-inlaid eyes, are
characteristic. Given Antico's importance for the history of
sculpture, this book is a much needed resource in the field,
presenting new scientific research and the results of technical
studies undertaken at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. A
series of essays places Antico's life, work and technique in a
contextual framework useful for understanding his body of work. In
addition to providing an overview of the artist's career, the
catalogue will address key topics from his workmanship and craft to
his relationship with the court of Mantua. Eleonora Luciano,
associate curator of sculpture at the National Gallery of Art,
provides a biography of the artist; Claudia Kryza-Gersch, curator
of Italian sculpture at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna,
discusses Antico as a pioneer of Renaissance sculpture; Stephen
Campbell, professor and chair of the department of the history of
art at John Hopkins University, writes about 'Antico and Humanism
at the Court of Mantua'; Davide Gasparotto, curator at the Galleria
Nazionale di Parma, considers Antico's portraiture; Denise Allen,
curator at the Frick Collection, New York, writes about 'Materials,
Workmanship and Meaning' in the artist's work. Two appendices
present new scientific work: Dylan Smith and Shelley Sturman, both
conservators at the National Gallery of Art, explore the technology
of Antico's bronzes, and Richard Stone, conservator emeritus at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, examines Antico's patinas.
Exhibition held at National Gallery of Art, Washington.
American artist Walter De Maria is associated with Minimal,
conceptual, installation, and land art. He is best known for The
Lightning Field, 1977, a long-term installation in western New
Mexico made up of four hundred pointed stainless steel poles
arranged in a grid over an area measuring one mile by one
kilometer. Despite the role he has played in contemporary art over
the past fifty years, few books have been dedicated to the artist.
Featuring new paintings and sculptures and never before published
texts, this volume explores in detail the works in the artist's
first major museum exhibition in the United States: "Walter De
Maria: Trilogies" at the Menil Collection. In the expansive new
work the Bel Air Trilogy, 2000-11, De Maria has combined exacting
geometry with the entirely unexpected element of three impeccably
restored 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air two-tone hardtops. Each car is
pierced by a twelve-foot-long stainless steel rod in the shape of a
circle, square, or triangle that runs through the front and rear
windshields. The Bel Air Trilogy is joined by De Maria's austere
tripartite sculpture with moveable spheres, the Channel Series,
1972, and The Statement Series, 1968/2011. Building upon his
large-scale 1968 canvas The Color Men Choose When They Attack The
Earth, for The Statement Series, the artist created two additional
monochrome paintings with engraved stainless steel plates that
complement the original piece. The works in this volume are a
testament to De Maria's ongoing investigation of the conceptual,
the dramatic, the monumental, the minimal, and the real. Together
these three trilogies challenge and broaden our understanding of
the artist's work. Distributed for The Menil Collection Exhibition
Schedule: The Menil Collection(09/16/11-01/08/12)
In collaboration with the sculptor Leelee Chan, a world- and
time-spanning project has been selected for the 8th BMW Art
Journey-an initiative of BMW and Art Basel. Chan explores old and
new materials in order enter them into a dialogue with the present
day. On her travels across Italy in 2020, she learned about
traditional techniques used to extract and work marble, copper,
iron, and bronze. In Switzerland and Germany, including at BMW's
Munich headquarters, she met engineers and scientists in order to
learn about nanotechnologies and postindustrial materials. This
richly illustrated volume brings together essays, documentary
photographs, and works inspired by the trip to examine the core
questions of Chan's project: What does it mean to be a sculptor in
the current time? What can we learn from the materials of
yesterday? And how can tomorrow's materials ensure a more
sustainable future?
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