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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms
This book is a retrospective volume on Latin American new media
arts, arising from the Cities in Dialogue exhibition that was held
in in FACT in conjunction with the University of Liverpool and the
Liverpool Independents Biennial in 2014. There is also plenty of
detail about the other events that were held during 2014 and into
2015, including workshops, artist talks, Twitter galleries and the
Artist in Residence and his activities. One chapter is dedicated to
each artist and the works they presented at the exhibition: Brian
Mackern from Uruguay, Barbara Palomino from Chile, Marina Zerbarini
from Argentina, and Ricardo Miranda Zuniga from the US. There is
also an extensive chapter about the exciting new residence artwork
created by Artist in Residence Brian Mackern. Entitled This Too
Shall Pass// Affective Cartographies, this work is based on footage
obtained through a series of unplanned journeys along Liverpool's
urbanscape. The gathering of information and recording of sound and
visual material during these journeys is then remixed in this
artwork by different parameters (volume levels, transparencies,
zooms, fragmentations, crossfadings, speeds of timelines, etc.)
controlled by Liverpool's "socio economic historic curve" of the
last century. In this book you can find out about all of these
works, and other pieces by these artists. The book includes full
colour images throughout, including exclusive images of works in
progress, as well as excerpts of interviews with the artists. At
the back of the book you can find links to online resources,
including the art works themselves, audio interviews with the
artists, image galleries, and more.
The only comprehensive and in-depth history of mime and physical
theatre in the UK, from its roots, influences and early pioneers,
to the leading lights and international successes of today.
Includes original interviews with pioneers in the field, including:
Joseph Seelig, Helen Lannaghan, Steven Berkoff, Julian Chagrin,
Annabel Arden, Nola Rae, Denise Wong, David Glass, Justin Case and
Toby Sedgwick. A one-stop shop for anyone studying contemporary UK
theatre and its physical innovators, including Forced
Entertainment, DV8, and Improbable.
A fascinating book on the origins of writing. Before Writing gives
a new perspective on the evolution of communication. It points out
that when writing began in Mesopotamia it was not, as previously
thought, a sudden and spontaneous invention. Instead, it was the
outgrowth of many thousands of years' worth of experience at
manipulating symbols. In Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform,
Denise Schmandt-Besserat describes how in about 8000 B.C.,
coinciding with the rise of agriculture, a system of counters, or
tokens, appeared in the Near East. These tokens-small,
geometrically shaped objects made of clay-represented various units
of goods and were used to count and account for them. The token
system was a breakthrough in data processing and communication that
ultimately led to the invention of writing about 3100 B.C. Through
a study of archaeological and epigraphic evidence,
Schmandt-Besserat traces how the Sumerian cuneiform script, the
first writing system, emerged from a counting device. In Volume II:
A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens, Schmandt-Besserat presents the
primary data on which she bases her theories. These data consist of
several thousand tokens, catalogued by country, archaeological
site, and token types and subtypes. The information also includes
the chronology, stratigraphy, museum ownership, accession or field
number, references to previous publications, material, and size of
the artifacts. Line drawings and photographs illustrate the various
token types.
Frank Bowling (b.1934, Bartica, Guyana) is attracting ever-growing
international recognition as an abstract painter. This is the first
publication to examine Bowling's art and ideas in relation to
sculpture. Lavishly illustrated, it features an extended essay by
curator Sam Cornish charting Bowling's interactions with sculpture
since the 1960s. The book asks how seeing Bowling's sculpture, and
thinking about sculpture more broadly, may extend our understanding
of his pictorial language. Considering this relationship also
highlights the importance of sculpture to High Modernism, from
within which Bowling's mature art emerged. Also included are an
in-conversation between Allie Biswas and sculptor Thomas J. Price,
and a poem dedicated to Bowling by sculptor and author Barbara
Chase-Riboud.
Having met the elusive Maggi Hambling, This book is pure Maggi at
her best.The book details the first ideas for the scallop to its
placing on Aldeburgh beach .The book also tells us how Maggi became
an artist. Anyone from Suffolk will relate to Maggi's work.First
published in hardback 2010.
This title features 25 practical projects from world renowned
woodturning expert. It will appeal to novice and intermediate
turners. It includes all the knowledge needed to get started, along
with step-by-step instructions and detailed drawings. Build your
woodturning skills and confidence with this variety of projects
that take between a couple of hours and a couple of days to
complete. All of the 25 projects can be undertaken using a limited
amount of tools and equipment. Making use of the six basic tools -
spindle roughing gouge, spindle gouge, parting tool, bowl gouge,
skew chisel and scrapers - the book will introduce a couple of
carving tools and a boring tool and explain why and how to use
them. Each project will have a list of tools and materials
required, drawings with dimensions and a panel on the wood used.
Sections on safety and seasoning wood are also included. Projects
include: napkin rings, rolling pin, pastry press, meat tenderizer,
wall clock, and bud vase
Ian Hamilton Finlay's garden in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh
is widely regarded as one of the most significant gardens in
Britain. In addition to being a spectacular example of garden
design, it also features almost 300 artworks by Finlay and others
which form an integral part of the garden scheme. This new
companion to Little Sparta tells the story of Ian Hamilton Finlay's
extraordinary creation, exploring the underlying themes, and
introducing and explaining the significance of the main elements
and artworks in each part of the garden. Featuring new photography,
as well as archive material, it also shows how the garden has
matured and developed over the last 50 years.
This book investigates how British contemporary artists who work
with clay have managed, in the space of a single generation, to
take ceramics from niche-interest craft to the pristine territories
of the contemporary art gallery. This development has been
accompanied (and perhaps propelled) by the kind of critical
discussion usually reserved for the 'higher' discipline of
sculpture. Ceramics is now encountering and colliding with
sculpture, both formally and intellectually. Laura Gray examines
what this means for the old hierarchies between art and craft, the
identity of the potter, and the character of a discipline tied to a
specific material but wanting to participate in critical
discussions that extend far beyond clay.
Green men are figures or heads that were carved in churches, abbeys
and cathedrals from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries.
Inspired by the illustrations in book margins where heads were used
to terminate trails of foliage, they were usually carved in the
form of human masks, cats' or demons' heads. The earliest
architectural green men are found in the churches of the wealthy
and influential, such as Henry I's private chapel in Derbyshire but
they were still produced in lesser numbers into the nineteenth
century. Richard Hayman discusses the origins and definitions of
these fascinating figures and traces their many declines and
revivals throughout history - a valuable guide for any church
history enthusiast.
Art, war, carnival or cult — masks have two sides: They conceal
and hide, and at the same time create new personalities, strange
and captivating at once. So, too, do masks reveal world views of
time and place: cult masks from Africa, mediaeval knight helmets,
fantasy masks of famous film heroes like Darth Vader, or gas masks
and VR glasses as modern functional objects. In this new photo
book, Russian photographer Olga Michi traces our millennia-old
fascination with masks. Her expressive pictures place the masks
centre-stage, creating a new, surrealistic aesthetic. With
fascinating texts on each mask’s cultural-historical
significance, this high-quality photo book delights, informs, and
ignites the imagination. Text in English, French, German, and
Russian.
The book combines a series of case studies and pedagogical
practices on live digital performance and intermedial theatre. This
book is aimed primarily at UG and PG students involved in
performing arts and digital technologies. The contents are relevant
for countries worldwide, especially on the countries involved in
the case studies provided in the book (Canada, India, Brazil, UK
and USA). While competitors set up the context for digital
performance, this study comprehensively explore pedagogies and
practice of live digital theatre, particularly the 2020-22 ‘new
real’ impact on performance.
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Pottery
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Penny Copland-Griffiths
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Revealing Krishna
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Sonya Rhie Mace, Bertrand Porte; Contributions by Choulean Ang, Pierre Baptiste, Socheat Chea, …
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Centered on the early Cambodian masterpiece Krishna Lifting Mount
Govardhan in the Cleveland Museum of Art, seven essays present new
research and discoveries regarding its history, material, and
context. Introducing the Cleveland Krishna as one of eight
monumental sculptures of Hindu deities from the sacred mountain of
Phnom Da, the museum's curator presents evidence for its
establishment in a cave sanctuary and recounts its fascinating
journey from there to Cleveland in multiple pieces--including a
decades-long detour of being buried in a garden in Belgium.
Conservators and scientists elucidate the long-fraught process of
identifying the sculptural fragments that belong to the Cleveland
Krishna and explain the new reconstructions unveiled in the 2021
exhibition Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia's Sacred
Mountain.An international team of specialists in the history of
art, archaeology, and anthropology place the Cleveland Krishna amid
the material traces of a sophisticated population based in the
Mekong River delta at the ancient metropolis known as Angkor Borei.
They reveal the long-lasting influence and prestige of the site,
well into the Angkorian period, more than six hundred years after
the creation of the Cleveland Krishna and the gods of Phnom Da.
This is the fifth in the Cleveland Masterworks Series.
• This book investigates performances as relational
“machineries of knowing,” which are situated within—and
actively contributing to the dynamic formation of—performance
cultures as distinctive yet interconnected “epistemic
cultures”.. • Would be recommended reading for researchers,
students and practitioners of theater, performance and dance across
the globe. • The closest competitors do not investigate
performance cultures—in their global plurality and diversity—as
distinctive environments of knowledge practice.
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The Gorillaz Art Book
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Gorillaz; Performed by Gorillaz; Jamie Hewlett, Z2 Comics; Contributions by Marella Moon, …
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The Gorillaz Art Book is here! Featuring brand new artwork by Jamie
Hewlett, who has invited more than 40 creators to offer new
interpretations of 2D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle, and Russel Hobbs in
one expansive volume of original artwork. Contributing artists
include Ruff Mercy, Kim Jung Gi, Robert Smith, Kerbscrawler Ghost,
Robert Valley, Craig McCracken and Tim McCourt & Max Taylor.
Celebrating 20 years of Gorillaz, this latest Z2 partnership sees
Hewlett expand the band’s collaborative vision to fellow visual
artists in The Gorillaz Art Book, a stunning visual feast of 306
pages.
Exploring everything from company incorporation and marketing, to
legal, finance and festivals, Starting a Theatre Company is the
complete guide to running a low-to-no budget or student theatre
company. Written by an experienced theatre practitioner and
featuring on-the-ground advice, this book covers all aspects of
starting a theatre company with limited resources, including how to
become a company, finding talent, defining a style, roles and
responsibilities, building an audience, marketing, the logistics of
a production, legalities, funding, and productions at festivals and
beyond. The book also includes a chapter on being a sustainable
company, and how to create a mindset that will lead to positive
artistic creation. Each chapter contains a list of further
resources, key terms and helpful tasks designed to support the
reader through all of the steps necessary to thrive as a new
organisation. An eResource page contains links to a wide range of
industry created templates, guidance and interviews, making it even
easier for you to get up and running as simply as possible.
Starting a Theatre Company targets Theatre and Performance students
interested in building their own theatre companies. This book will
also be invaluable to independent producers and theatre makers.
Last published in a nineteenth-century catalogue, the distinguished
Torlonia Collection of more than 600 priceless Greek and Roman
works marbles and bronzes, reliefs and sarcophagi, depictions of
gods, and portraits of emperors is one of the most important
assemblages of classical sculptures still in private hands anywhere
in the world. This eagerly awaited volume presents a selection of
nearly 100 sculptures, which have been chosen for their quality and
historic significance and which will be featured in an
unprecedented exhibition designed by David Chipperfield and held in
the Villa Caffarelli, near the Musei Capitolini in Rome, before
touring globally. The legendary aura surrounding this, Rome s last
princely collection, is due not only to its extraordinary scope and
the high quality of the works, but also to the fact that the
collection has not been available to the public for decades. This
revelatory book features multiple essays by leading experts on the
history of the collection and scholarly entries for the works
detailing important discoveries made through archaeological
research as well as the cleaning and conservation of the
sculptures.
Accessible, witty introduction to the field of aesthetics Exciting
case studies – learn about contemporary Irish performers pushing
aesthetic boundaries and agitating for social change Discover
aesthetic tactics for activist work Delve deep into the tricky
tension between art and life
This book elucidates the technical aspects of improvised dance
performance and reframes the notion of labour in the practice from
one that is either based on compositionally formal logic or a
mysterious impulse, to one that addresses the (in)corporeal
dimensions of practice. Mobilising the languages and conceptual
frameworks of theories of affect, embodied cognition, somatics, and
dance, this book illustrates the work of specialist improvisers who
occupy divergent positions within the complex field of improvised
dance. It offers an alternative narrative of the history and
current practice of Western improvised dance centred on the
epistemology of its (in)corporeal knowledges, which are elusive yet
vital to the refinement of expertise. Written for both a
disciplinary-specific and interdisciplinary audience, this book
will interest dance scholars, students, and practising artists.
In the past decade, there has been a surge of Anglophone
scholarship regarding Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, which has led to a reframing of the discourses around
Spanish culture of this period. Despite this new interest-in which
painting, in particular, has been singled out for treatment-a
comprehensive study of sculpture collections and the status of
sculpture in Spain has yet to be produced. Sculpture Collections in
Early Modern Spain is the first book to assess the phenomenon of
sculpture collecting and in doing so, it alters the previously held
notion that Spanish society placed little value in this art form.
Di Dio and Coppel reveal that, due to the problems and expense of
their transport from Italy, sculptures were in fact status symbols
in the culture. Thus they were an important component of the
collections formed by the royal family, cultivated noble
collectors, humanists, and artists who had pretensions of high
status. This book is especially useful to specialists for its
discussion of the typologies of collections and objects, and of the
mechanics of state gifts, transport, and collection display in this
period. An appendix presents extensive archival documentation, most
of which has never before been published. The authors have
uncovered hundreds of new documents about sculpture in Spain; and
new documentary evidence allows them to propose several new
identifications and attributions. Firmly grounded in extensive
archival research, Sculpture Collections in Early Modern Spain
redefines the socio-political and art historical importance of
sculpture in early modern Spain. Most importantly, it entirely
transforms our knowledge regarding the presence of sculpture in a
wide range of Spanish collections of the period, which until now
has been erroneously characterized as close to non-existent.
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