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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms

Turning Salt & Pepper Shakers and Mills (Paperback): C. West Turning Salt & Pepper Shakers and Mills (Paperback)
C. West
R537 R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Save R170 (32%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This UK author's designs are stylish & quirky & move beyond the traditional shapes in shops today. In this unique and comprehensive book, Chris West covers all aspects of turning these useful condiment holders and demonstrates how practical kitchen utensils can be transformed into beautiful, stylish and tactile additions to your home. 30 projects are rated in order of difficulty, from beginner, through to intermediate and advanced, the latter not solely based on the skills of the turner, but also on access to the materials or machinery required for the project. A basic level of turning is assumed, together with the availability of a chuck with compression jaws. Chris finds inspiration in many diverse objects, whether glass, metal or ceramics and creates unique and quirky designs, which move beyond the traditional shapes in retail shops today.

Material Bernini (Hardcover, New edition): Evonne Levy, Carolina Mangone Material Bernini (Hardcover, New edition)
Evonne Levy, Carolina Mangone
R4,217 Discovery Miles 42 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 immaterial twin. Here immaterial Bernini and the historiography that sustains him is finally confronted by material Bernini. Central to the volume are Bernini's works in clay, a fragmentary record of a large body of preparatory works by a sculptor who denied any direct relation between sketches of any kind and final works. Read together, the essays call into question why those works in which Bernini's bodily relation to the material of his art is most evident, his clay studies, have been configured as a point of unmediated access to the artist's mind, to his immaterial ideas. This insight reveals a set of values and assumptions that have profoundly shaped Bernini studies from their inception, and opens up new and compelling avenues of inquiry within a field that has long remained remarkably self-enclosed.

Art Escapes - Hidden Art Experiences Outside the Museums (Hardcover): Gestalten, Grace Banks Art Escapes - Hidden Art Experiences Outside the Museums (Hardcover)
Gestalten, Grace Banks
R1,109 R892 Discovery Miles 8 920 Save R217 (20%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden (Hardcover): Miranda Phillips, Jodi Dickinson, Chris Stephens The Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden (Hardcover)
Miranda Phillips, Jodi Dickinson, Chris Stephens
R462 R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Save R84 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A new and revised edition of the 2002 popular title, The Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden, this exquisitely produced book showcases the garden in St Ives throughout the seasons, with new photography and updated information on the plants from the Head Gardener, Jodi Dickinson. Barbara Hepworth's studio at Trewyn in St Ives is a unique combination of sub-tropical garden and sculpture museum. A haven of peace, it provided Hepworth with a working environment, a showcase for her sculpture, and the opportunity to pursue her love of gardening. The Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden is a beautiful record of the plants and sculptures at Trewyn through the seasons, exploring the relationship between Hepworth's sculpture and the natural forms that surround them. With specially commissioned photographs and full descriptions of both plants and sculptures, this is a comprehensive record of Barbra Hepworth's years in St Ives, and a beautiful souvenir of the garden. Texts from art historian and previous curator at Tate, Chris Stephens, along with Miranda Philips contextualises the work of Hepworth and the decisions made to create one of the most famous artists gardens in the world.

Vertigo - A Century of Multimedia Art from Futurism to the Web (Paperback): Germano Celant, Gianfranco Maraniello Vertigo - A Century of Multimedia Art from Futurism to the Web (Paperback)
Germano Celant, Gianfranco Maraniello
R1,471 R1,209 Discovery Miles 12 090 Save R262 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Vertigo seeks to document the surge of multimedia art driven by the advent of new technologies, including works produced by great names in art such as Balla, Warhol, Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Nam June Paik, and Laurie Anderson.

Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism (Hardcover): David Houston Jones Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism (Hardcover)
David Houston Jones
R4,355 Discovery Miles 43 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

On the leading edge of trauma and archival studies, this timely book engages with the recent growth in visual projects that respond to the archive, focusing in particular on installation art. It traces a line of argument from practitioners who explicitly depict the archive (Samuel Beckett, Christian Boltanski, Art & Language, Walid Raad) to those whose materials and practices are archival (Miroslaw Balka, Jean-Luc Godard, Silvia Kolbowski, Boltanski, Atom Egoyan). Jones considers in particular the widespread nostalgia for 'archival' media such as analogue photographs and film. He analyses the innovative strategies by which such artefacts are incorporated, examining five distinct types of archival practice: the intermedial, testimonial, personal, relational and monumentalist.

Stardust - The Work and Life of Jeweler Extraordinaire Frédéric Zaavy (Hardcover): Gilles Hertzog, John Taylor, Dianne Dubler Stardust - The Work and Life of Jeweler Extraordinaire Frédéric Zaavy (Hardcover)
Gilles Hertzog, John Taylor, Dianne Dubler
R1,510 Discovery Miles 15 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Frédéric Zaavy's brilliant career as a master jeweller shone like a meteor but flamed out far too soon. Zaavy considered himself heir to the legacy of Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, gem dealer to Louis XIV, and was chosen as the exclusive jeweller for the 21st century revival of Fabergé. Zaavy's artistic genius lay in painting with precious stones and in engineering remarkable settings to hold those stones almost invisibly. His works achieved a preëminence in the thousand-year evolution of French jewellery. The influences on his life and work were myriad. Nature, quantum physics, art, music, spirituality, poetry, literature, and even science fiction all shaped his extraordinary world view and taste. He was a philosopher jeweller. Stardust encapsulates the last year of his life, from the moment he learned he would soon die, right through to the end, with his life still at full throttle. With a text by acclaimed French philosophical writer Gilles Hertzog and a stunning visual narrative by celebrated photographers John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler, Zaavy's work and life are presented in a portrait of what was and of what might have been. Text in English and Simplified Chinese.

Night of the World (Hardcover): Yorgos Maraziotis, Sotirios Bahtsetzis Night of the World (Hardcover)
Yorgos Maraziotis, Sotirios Bahtsetzis
R617 Discovery Miles 6 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Meret Oppenheim - Enigmas - A Journey Through Life and Work (Hardcover): Simon Baur Meret Oppenheim - Enigmas - A Journey Through Life and Work (Hardcover)
Simon Baur
R705 Discovery Miles 7 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985) is far more than just the creator of the iconic fur teacup. In the course of her career she produced a complex, wide-ranging, and enigmatic body of work that has no parallel in modern art. Like an x-ray beam, this book scans Oppenheim’s artistic oeuvre, bringing its variety, playfulness, and poetry to the fore. Instead of simply answering the riddles posed by these intriguing works, it maps out the paths that will lead us to still more clues. Simon Baur is a leading expert in the life and art of Meret Oppenheim. The nine new essays featured in this volume are at once scholarly and easy to read. In them, Baur shares the many fascinating insights and interpretations that he has gleaned from his decades-long engagement with Oppenheim’s work. The result is an anthology that combines both biographical and thematic aspects and takes us on an exciting journey into the poetic cosmos of a truly great female artist.

Anyone Can Whittle! - Carve Wood, Soap, Golf Balls & More in 30+ Easy Projects (Paperback): Editors Of Woodcarving Illustrated Anyone Can Whittle! - Carve Wood, Soap, Golf Balls & More in 30+ Easy Projects (Paperback)
Editors Of Woodcarving Illustrated
R280 Discovery Miles 2 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A must-have whittling guide for beginning carvers looking to learn how to whittle, as well as advanced carvers seeking to build their existing skills and try something new. Featuring 35 projects and high-quality, full-size whittling patterns, all you need is one knife, a few found items either from out in nature or around your home – from twigs and basswood blocks to soap, avocado pits and golf balls – and this exciting whittling project book. Try a classic ball-in-cage whimsey, learn how to turn a golf ball into a face, an avocado pit into an owl, or a twig into a mini sculpture. Projects are small and simple, so they’re easy to take with you and chip away at anywhere you go! This guide also includes helpful introductory sections on the fundamentals of woodcarving, including basic cuts, wood and grain, and safety. See how easy, fun, and creative whittling can be! Original patterns contributed by today’s leading carvers, such as Guinness World Record holder Chris Lubkemann, James Miller, Nikki Reese, Tom Hindes, Sara Barraclough, and other talented and award-winning artists.

Scenography and Art History - Performance Design and Visual Culture (Paperback): Astrid Von Rosen, Viveka Kjellmer Scenography and Art History - Performance Design and Visual Culture (Paperback)
Astrid Von Rosen, Viveka Kjellmer
R786 Discovery Miles 7 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Scenography and Art History reimagines scenography as a critical concept for art history, and is the first book to demonstrate the importance and usefulness of this concept for art historians and scholars in related fields. It provides a vital evaluation of the contemporary importance of scenography as a critical tool for art historians and scholars from related branches of study addressing phenomena such as witchy designs, Early Modern festival books, live rock performances, digital fashion photography, and outdoor dance interventions. With its nuanced and detailed case studies, this book is an innovative contribution to ongoing debates within art history and visual studies concerning multisensory events. It extends the existing literature by demonstrating the importance of a reimagined scenography concept for comprehending historical and contemporary art histories and visual cultures more broadly. The book contends that scenography is no longer restricted to the traditional space of the theatre, but has become an important concept for approaching art historical and contemporary objects and events. It explores scenography not solely as a critical approach and theoretical concept, but also as an important practice linked with unrecognized labour and broader political, social and gendered issues in a great variety of contexts, such as festive culture, sacred settings, fashion, film, or performing arts. Designed as a key resource for students, teachers and researchers in art history, visual studies, and related subjects, the book, through its cross-disciplinary frame, does consider, implicitly and explicitly, the roles of both scenography and art in society.

Cats by Kuniyoshi - Ukiyo-E Paper Book (Paperback): Pie Books Cats by Kuniyoshi - Ukiyo-E Paper Book (Paperback)
Pie Books
R606 R449 Discovery Miles 4 490 Save R157 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Carving Classic Female Faces in Wood - A How-To Reference for Carvers and Sculptors (Paperback): Ian Norbury Carving Classic Female Faces in Wood - A How-To Reference for Carvers and Sculptors (Paperback)
Ian Norbury
R437 R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Save R78 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Noted sculptor Ian Norbury gives woodcarvers a thorough, how-to guide to bringing out the beauty of a female face from a block of wood. Using hundreds of photographs and drawings, the author provides in-depth instruction on carving two different adult faces - one European and one Afro-Caribbean - and one child's face. Both beginning and advanced woodcarvers and sculptors will find expert guidance on tackling the unique challenges of carving a female face. Included are sections on the anatomy of the female face, taking photographs and producing patterns, step-by-step instructions, and a photographic gallery of finished carvings to provide inspiration.

Sculpture Vertical, Horizontal, Closed, Open (Hardcover): Penelope Curtis Sculpture Vertical, Horizontal, Closed, Open (Hardcover)
Penelope Curtis
R1,101 Discovery Miles 11 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

By taking simple ways of looking at sculpture, this book uncovers unexpected affinities between works of very different periods and types. From sundials to mirrors, from graves to way-markers, from fountains to contemporary art, a wide range of illustrated examples expands the definitions of sculpture and proposes that we understand this art as something more fundamental to the way we experience and construct our rites of passage. Penelope Curtis argues that there are some basic functions shared by many kinds of three-dimensional objects, be they more or less obviously sculptural. Even contemporary sculpture, with no apparent purpose, makes use of this deeply embedded vocabulary. Together, the qualities of vertical, horizontal, closed and open are consolidated in the ensemble, which places the viewer at its heart, on the threshold of sculpture and on the threshold of change. This book elides the usual notions of figurative and abstract to think instead about how sculpture works. Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Public Sculpture of Edinburgh (Volume 2) - The New Town, Leith and the Outer Suburbs (Paperback): Ray McKenzie Public Sculpture of Edinburgh (Volume 2) - The New Town, Leith and the Outer Suburbs (Paperback)
Ray McKenzie; Contributions by Dianne King, Tracy Smith
R980 Discovery Miles 9 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is the companion to Public Sculpture of Edinburgh, volume 1, 'The Old Town and South Edinburgh', extending the coverage to the First New Town and its environs, and beyond that to the former independent burgh of Leith. It provides a comprehensive and detailed account of the entire spectrum of public sculptures to be found in these parts of the city, including free-standing commemorative monuments, architectural carvings, and contemporary site-specific interventions. Based on extensive new research, the text is structured as a catalogue raisonne, with each entry comprising a detailed description of the work, an account of how it came to be commissioned, and an analysis of its cultural significance. There are also separate appendices dealing with important works that have been lost or destroyed, minor works and sculptural coats of arms. The study of public sculpture is now recognised as offering a range of new insights into the development of the urban realm. Those insights are brought together here to provide a comprehensive resource for historians, architects, urban planners and conservators, and a narrative history that will be of interest to all who care about Edinburgh, and wish to celebrate its status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Kathleen Ryan: Daisy Chain (Hardcover): Kathleen Ryan Kathleen Ryan: Daisy Chain (Hardcover)
Kathleen Ryan; Text written by Heather Davis, Shannon Mattern, Bob Nickas
R1,000 R834 Discovery Miles 8 340 Save R166 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Contemporary Sculpture and the Critique of Display Cultures - Tainted Goods (Hardcover): Dan Adler Contemporary Sculpture and the Critique of Display Cultures - Tainted Goods (Hardcover)
Dan Adler
R1,636 Discovery Miles 16 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this book, Dan Adler addresses recent tendencies in contemporary art toward assemblage sculpture and how these works incorporate tainted materials - often things left on the side of the road, according to the logic and progress of the capitalist machine - and combine them in ways that allow each element to retain a degree of empirical specificity. Adler develops a range of aesthetic models through which these practices can be understood to function critically. Each chapter focuses on a single exhibition: Isa Genzken's "OIL" (German Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2007), Geoffrey Farmer's midcareer survey (Musee d'art contemporain, Montreal, 2008), Rachel Harrison's "Consider the Lobster" (CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, 2009), and Liz Magor's "The Mouth and Other Storage Facilities" (Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 2008).

Holocaust Intersections - Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium (Hardcover, New): Axel Bangert Holocaust Intersections - Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium (Hardcover, New)
Axel Bangert
R2,531 Discovery Miles 25 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Recent representations of the Holocaust have increasingly required us to think beyond rigid demarcations of nation and history, medium and genre. Holocaust Intersections sets out to investigate the many points of conjunction between these categories in recent images of genocide. The book examines transnational constellations in Holocaust cinema and television in Europe disclosing instances of border-crossing and boundary-troubling at levels of production, distribution and reception. It highlights intersections between film genres, through intertextuality and pastiche, and the deployment of audio-visual Holocaust memory and testimony. Finally, the volume addresses connections between the Holocaust and other histories of genocide in the visual culture of the new millennium, engaging with the questions of transhistoricity and intercultural perspective. Drawing on a wide variety of different media - from cinema and television to installation art and the internet - and on the most recent scholarship on responses to the Holocaust, the volume aims to update our understanding of how visual culture looks at the Holocaust and genocide today.

Julio Gonzalez: Complete Work Volume III: 1919-1929 (Hardcover): Tomas Llorens Julio Gonzalez: Complete Work Volume III: 1919-1929 (Hardcover)
Tomas Llorens
R7,343 R5,190 Discovery Miles 51 900 Save R2,153 (29%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Julio Gonzalez moved in 1900 to Paris, where his contact with the most innovative and powerful modern art led, as one would expect, to a vitalization of his own artistic conceptions. He arrived at a style of his own through his attempts to incorporate space and time into his work, and in so doing he changed the meaning of iron, endowing it with new constructive and expressive values. His work made a definitive impact on the development of contemporary sculpture. Though his output was small, his influence on such master sculptors as David Smith - - a distant pupil - - is testimony to the eloquence of his art. This ambitious publishing project (for which seven volumes are planned) focuses on the artist's complete oeuvre and is the result of the initiative of Tomas Llorens, former director of the Reina Sofia Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum both of which are in Madrid, and the IVAM in Valencia, which holds over 400 works by Julio Gonzalez in its collection. Published in collaboration with the IVAM and the Azcona Foundation in Madrid.

Found Sculpture and Photography from Surrealism to Contemporary Art (Hardcover, New Ed): Julia Kelly Found Sculpture and Photography from Surrealism to Contemporary Art (Hardcover, New Ed)
Julia Kelly
R4,209 Discovery Miles 42 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Taking its departure point from the 1933 surrealist photographs of 'involuntary sculptures' by Brassai and Dali, Found Sculpture and Photography from Surrealism to Contemporary Art offers fresh perspectives on the sculptural object by relating it to both surrealist concerns with chance and the crucial role of photography in framing the everyday. This collection of essays questions the nature of sculptural practice, looking to forms of production and reproduction that blur the boundaries between things that are made and things that are found. One of the book's central themes is the interplay of presence and absence in sculpture, as it is highlighted, disrupted, or multiplied through photography's indexical nature. The essays examine the surrealist three-dimensional object, its relation to and transformation through photographs, as well as the enduring legacies of such concerns for the artwork's materiality and temporality in performance and conceptual practices from the 1960s through the present. Found Sculpture and Photography sheds new light on the shifts in status of the art object, challenging the specificity of visual practices, pursuing a radical interrogation of agency in modern and contemporary practices, and exploring the boundaries between art and everyday life.

Bernini and His World - Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome (Hardcover): Livio Pestilli Bernini and His World - Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome (Hardcover)
Livio Pestilli
R1,668 Discovery Miles 16 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Bernini and His World is a unique exploration of Gian Lorenzo Bernini the sculptor, offering new insights and including discussions of the artist's stylistic innovations and the ways in which he approached sculpture. Placing his life and work within a social, anthropological and historical context, Livio Pestilli gives a fascinating and in-depth account, from the Rome in which Bernini lived and its reception of foreign sculptors to the myth-making narrative of his biographers, and the judgements of his critics. Beautifully illustrated and engagingly written, this book draws on a deep familiarity with both historic and modern Italian culture to give readers a vivid account of sculpture and sculptors in early modern Rome, and of Bernini's lasting legacy.

Chateau La Coste - Art and Architecture in Provence (Hardcover): Robert Adams Ivy Chateau La Coste - Art and Architecture in Provence (Hardcover)
Robert Adams Ivy
R1,441 R1,177 Discovery Miles 11 770 Save R264 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Chateau La Coste, near Aix-en-Provence, is a unique property that combines sculptural artworks by leading contemporary artists alongside works by some of the world's best-known architects, all within the grounds of a working organic vineyard. Since 2004 the estate, which occupies an ancient site, has been transformed into an exceptional plein-air museum, and the number of installations grows every year. The spreading collection lies within the walk of a spectacular Art Centre, designed by the world-renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando. On the reflecting pool in front of the building is one of Louise Bourgeois' giant arachnoid sculptures, Crouching Spider. To the north lies a futuristic winery by Jean Nouvel. By taking one of several routes to the south or west, the visitor encounters such monumental installations as Sean Scully's sculpture of stacked blocks of limestone, Wall of Light Cubed; Richard Serra's steel sheets, AIX; and Oak Room by Andy Goldsworthy, a cave of interwoven oak branches, integrated into an old stone wall. Installations by Liam Gillick, Kengo Kuma, Paul Matisse, Sophie Calle and many others punctuate the pathways. And by an ancient Roman route, Ai Weiwei has created another new path up the hillside, using paving stones salvaged from the renovated port at Marseilles. Overlooking the site is a 16th-century chapel restored by Ando and enclosed by a framework of steel and glass. The music and exhibition pavilions, close to the `village' of buildings at the heart of the property, have been designed by Frank Gehry and Renzo Piano respectively. In this stunning new book, Robert Ivy of the American Institute of Architects and the curator Alistair Hicks explore each work of architecture and art installation in depth. Their insightful commentaries are accompanied by specially commissioned photographs by the acclaimed architectural photographer Alan Karchmer. The book is arranged into sections covering all areas of the property, so that the reader is able to experience and discover Chateau La Coste as a visitor would. In the introduction, Ivy relates the conception, creation and further development of Chateau La Coste by its owner, Patrick McKillen; while, to conclude the book, Hicks considers the site's ever-increasing exhibition programme. Throughout the pages, the reader will feel transported to idyllic Provence, to this most remarkable and significant collection of modern and contemporary art and architecture.

Committed to Memory - The Art of the Slave Ship Icon (Paperback): Cheryl Finley Committed to Memory - The Art of the Slave Ship Icon (Paperback)
Cheryl Finley
R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of Black resistance, identity, and remembrance One of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First published by British abolitionists in 1788, it exposed this widespread commercial practice for what it really was-shocking, immoral, barbaric, unimaginable. Printed as handbills and broadsides, the image Cheryl Finley has termed the "slave ship icon" was easily reproduced, and by the end of the eighteenth century it was circulating by the tens of thousands around the Atlantic rim. Committed to Memory provides the first in-depth look at how this artifact of the fight against slavery became an enduring symbol of Black resistance, identity, and remembrance. Finley traces how the slave ship icon became a powerful tool in the hands of British and American abolitionists, and how its radical potential was rediscovered in the twentieth century by Black artists, activists, writers, filmmakers, and curators. Finley offers provocative new insights into the works of Amiri Baraka, Romare Bearden, Betye Saar, and many others. She demonstrates how the icon was transformed into poetry, literature, visual art, sculpture, performance, and film-and became a medium through which diasporic Africans have reasserted their common identity and memorialized their ancestors. Beautifully illustrated, Committed to Memory features works from around the world, taking readers from the United States and England to West Africa and the Caribbean. It shows how contemporary Black artists and their allies have used this iconic eighteenth-century engraving to reflect on the trauma of slavery and come to terms with its legacy.

Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving (Hardcover): David Esterly Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving (Hardcover)
David Esterly
R908 Discovery Miles 9 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'David Esterly's handsome book on Gibbons has been republished by the V&A with sumptuous pictures' Laura Freeman, The Times, 14th August 2021 Reissued to mark 300 years since the death of Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721), this study views the work of the greatest of decorative woodcarvers from the perspective of a fellow carver, the late David Esterly. Grinling Gibbons is famous for giving wood "the loose and airy lightness of flowers." His flamboyant cascades of lifelike blossoms, fruits, foliage, birds and fish dominate English interiors of the late seventeenth century. They are among the glories of Windsor Castle, Hampton Court Palace, and St. Paul's Cathedral, as well as Badminton, Burghley, Petworth, and other great country houses. A contemporary of Christopher Wren and of the diarists Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, Gibbons was part of the colourful world of Restoration England. His discovery by Evelyn in a tumble-down cottage near the River Thames was followed by a presentation to King Charles II, who rejected his early sculptural work. Gibbons responded by inventing his spectacular style of decorative carving. He was then rediscovered, reintroduced to the king, and launched into a triumphant career. After setting Gibbons in historical context, David Esterly's ground-breaking approach allows us to understand the process by which these exuberant carvings were created and how their forms reflect the organization of Gibbon's workshop. Esterly, a professional woodcarver who restored some of Gibbons' most important carvings, shares his unique knowledge of the layering process by which Gibbons built up such masterpieces as the Cosimo panel or the elaborate overmantels at Hampton Court Palace. Specially commissioned photographs show these carvings in a disassembled state, revealing the secrets of their construction. Esterly also discusses Gibbons' formidable carving techniques, and his tools, workshop practice, materials, and finishing are described in detail. This generously illustrated volume will have a special appeal for carvers as well as for those interested in seventeenth-century interiors and the decorative arts.

The Beauty of the Line - Life and Times of Dumile Feni (Paperback): Chabani Manganyni The Beauty of the Line - Life and Times of Dumile Feni (Paperback)
Chabani Manganyni
R518 Discovery Miles 5 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Beauty of the line: life and times of Dumile Feni is a celebration of an eminent South African artist, who carved a place for himself, in art circles in South Africa and abroad. The subject of diverse interpretations, Feni was a larger than life figure whose reputation as an artist is evidenced by his captivating sculptures, drawings and sketches. With skilful narration, Manganyi weaves intimate stories from Feni’s friends and acquaintances such as Hugh Masekela, Willie Kgotsisile and Louis Maqhubela, who reflect on his personal challenges and how these impacted on the creative processes behind his artistic flare. The author's portrayal of the famed artist will engage and entice the readers into the nooks and crannies of Dumile Feni's life, and the expressive power of his art.

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