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This is the third volume of the definitive reference series dealing
with commercial bronze sculptures in the period 1800 to 1930. This
period spans the rise and decline of commercial industrial
foundries in Europe, especially in France, and a wide array of
international sculptors. Together, they produced millions of fine
statuettes for the general public. Volume 3 includes 1315
photographs of sculptures on 320 pages with information on the
Hirsch Foundry of Paris and Brooklyn, New York. It incorporates
lists of the sculptors whose work is shown, the founders
represented, and 21 different founders' seals. The photographs are
remarkably clear enabeling small details in the sculptures to be
visible. With this reference series, collectors will be able to
identify many of the old commercial bronzes found on the market
today.
The sea of flowers he presented in the courtyard of Somerset House
during the 2012 Olympic Games in London made him and his art famous
on the international stage: the Chilean sculptor Fernando
Casasempere (*1958 in Santiago, Chile) placed ten thousand ceramic
daffodils on the otherwise carefully mowed lawns there. Casasempere
molded each one individually out of clay from his homeland, using
the spring blossoms to draw attention to the wonders of nature with
which humans destructively interfere-in this case, with lawn
mowers. Casasempere, who has lived in England since 1997, also
employs clay to make far more experimental sculptures, such as
seemingly liquid marble columns or vaulted and bulging shapes,
through which he repeatedly questions humankind's treatment of the
environment. This richly illustrated catalogue is an impressive
presentation of the development of his body of work over the past
twenty-five years.
Jayne Persico brings her fresh and timeless style to the art of
"Glass Kiln Casting". This inspirational yet thoroughly practical
guide presents lush photographs of beautifully finished pieces that
will capture the imagination. The clear and simple instructions
will enable fusers of any skill level to achieve amazing
3-dimensional creations. "Glass Kiln Casting" is a book offering
over 260 colour photographs in 12 chapters that will inspire dozens
of exceptional projects. The opening chapter features invaluable
information covering frit casting moulds, tools, equipment and
kilns, plus an in-depth yet simple approach to working with digital
kiln controllers. This book is sure to become a studio favourite
that fusers of all levels will refer to time and again. Jayne's
take-you-by-the-hand writing style guides crafters through the frit
casting process. She'll show you how to make frit cast jewellery,
plates and bowls with amazing results that will impress everyone
who views your creations.
Originally published in 1916, this book discusses, debates and
demonstrates the inextricably entwined nature of architecture and
sculpture, in terms of their principles, ideals and practices.
Providing a detailed overview of the history of the two arts and
the harmony which has existed between them throughout the
centuries, this book endeavours to disentangle the historic
assumption that the two arts exist independently of one another. A
broad range of chapters are included, ranging from 'The treatment
and placing of sculpture in the historic periods' to 'Decorative
sculpture' to 'Large monumental layouts'. Photographs depicting
international examples of architecture and sculpture are included
throughout. This book explores the necessity for practitioners to
understand the requirements and limitations in both fields and will
be a valuable resource to students, scholars and researchers of the
history of architecture and sculpture.
20 kawaii trinkets in polymer clay from Kawaii Studios! Kawaii is
becoming the ultimate buzzword for all things cute and miniature,
and in this new Twenty to Make title, Ruth Thompson shows you how
to create 20 cute miniature charms and trinkets out of polymer
clay. As well as learning how to colour the clay and add super-cute
expressions, there's also advice on how to turn your charms into
wearable jewellery. From adorable sushi earrings to panda
paperclips, there's something sweet to suit everyone!
Once again, Dick Sing makes his mark with his high quality,
beautiful pens and pencils. Sharing his skill and expertise at the
wood lathe, he teaches you how to make something more than a mere
instrument for writing-this is art, a keepsake, a great gift,
something to make the turner proud. In his first book on pen
turning, Sing provided basic instructions and lots of helpful tips.
This book also provides the basics, adding new kinds of pens and
variations on some of the old favorites. Tips are given for ways to
work with challenging materials or grain alignments to create
spectacular results. Dick details methods which make beautiful pens
time after time. More than 260 photographs and detailed
instructions advise the turner on more than a dozen variations,
plus there are sections on the special equipment he has modified to
make pen turning easier and improve the quality. A gallery of pens
provides inspiration for variety and creativity.
This revised and improved design book is full of drawings for bevel
window styles from traditional to contemporary. It contains 8 pages
of colour photographs and over 100 line drawings. The instructional
section covers pattern enlarging, custom window designing, framing
and installation.
These enchanting chess pieces consist of elaborately worked walrus
ivory and whales' teeth in the form of seated kings and queens,
mitred bishops, knights on their mounts, standing warders and pawns
in the shape of obelisks. They were found in the vicinity of Uig on
the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, in mysterious circumstances some
time before 11th April 1831. Various stories have evolved to
explain why they were concealed there, and how they were
discovered. This book takes a lively look at the many theories
surrounding the ownership of the pieces, why they were hidden and
how exactly they were discovered, and places them in the wider
context of the ancient game of chess and secular culture of the
Middle Ages.
In 1428, a devastating fire destroyed a schoolhouse in the northern
Italian city of Forli, leaving only a woodcut of the Madonna and
Child that had been tacked to the classroom wall. The people of
Forli carried that print - now known as the Madonna of the Fire -
into their cathedral, where two centuries later a new chapel was
built to enshrine it. In this book, Lisa Pon considers a cascade of
moments in the Madonna of the Fire's cultural biography: when ink
was impressed onto paper at a now-unknown date; when that sheet was
recognized by Forli's people as miraculous; when it was enshrined
in various tabernacles and chapels in the cathedral; when it or one
of its copies was - and still is - carried in procession. In doing
so, Pon offers an experiment in art historical inquiry that spans
more than three centuries of making, remaking, and renewal.
Over 130 Roseville Pottery Company ceramic lines are listed and
valued in this very inclusive guide. Arranged in easy-to-use
alphabetical order, each line and its most common variations are
listed and priced by line number. Values are also provided by glaze
color when appropriate. Among the categories featured in this
informative price guide are Early Velmoss, Experimental Pieces,
Keynote, Lamps, Raymor Modern Artware, Rozane Royal, Trial Glaze
Pieces, and additional products not typically found in guides to
Roseville. This informative quick reference works well as a
companion piece to Mark Bassett's Introducing Roseville Pottery
(1997). Listings for shapes illustrated in the 1997 ppublication
appear in boldface, with page references. The shape numbers have
been authenticated by firsthand study of Rosevilld pottery pieces.
Rounding out the presentation is an invaluable index to Roseville
Shape Numbers, c. 1916--1946, produced with the assistance of
veteran researcher Lou Haggis. The Index explains the factory's
original shape numbering system, which will help collectors
identify and date little-known Roseville shapes. Everyone
interested in art pottery, American artware, or Eastern Ohio
pottery will find this a valuable reference work.
Examines the styles and contexts of portrait statues produced
during one of the most dynamic eras of Western art, the early
Hellenistic age. Often seen as the beginning of the Western
tradition in portraiture, this historical period is here subjected
to a rigorous interdisciplinary analysis. Using a variety of
methodologies from a wide range of fields - anthropology,
numismatics, epigraphy, archaeology, history, and literary
criticism - an international team of experts investigates the
problems of origins, patronage, setting, and meanings that have
consistently marked this fascinating body of ancient material
culture.
If you love caricature carving but are getting a little tired of
cowboys and Santas, this book is for you! Inside this book, you'll
find 15 whimsical characters just waiting to be released from wood.
Follow along with popular woodcarving instructor and author, Floyd
Rhadigan as he takes you-step by step-through carving and painting
a fantasy character. Once you master the basic skills, you can move
on to the additional carving patterns that are included. From Eric
the Red to Merlin, you'll have plenty of great new projects to
choose from!
In this volume, Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper investigates the impact
of Greek art on the miniature figure sculptures produced in
Babylonia after the conquests of Alexander the Great. Figurines in
Hellenistic Babylonia were used as agents of social change, by
visually expressing and negotiating cultural differences. The
scaled-down quality of figurines encouraged both visual and tactile
engagement, enabling them to effectively work as non-threatening
instruments of cultural blending. Reconstructing the embodied
experience of miniaturization in detailed case studies,
Langin-Hooper illuminates the dynamic process of combining Greek
and Babylonian sculpture forms, social customs, and viewing habits
into new, hybrid works of art. Her innovative focus on figurines as
instruments of both personal encounter and global cultural shifts
has important implications for the study of tiny objects in art
history, anthropology, classics, and other disciplines.
This beautifully illustrated monograph presents the first overview
in English of the life and work of Luisa Roldan (1652-1706), a
prolific and celebrated sculptor of the Spanish Golden Age. The
daughter of Pedro Roldan, a well-known sculptor from Seville, she
developed her talent in her father's workshop. Early in her career
she produced large polychromed wooden sculptures for churches in
Seville, Cadiz, and surrounding towns. She spent the second half of
her career in Madrid, where she worked in both polychromed wood and
polychromed terracotta, developing new products for a domestic,
devotional market. In recognition of her talent, she was awarded
the title of Sculptor to the Royal Chambers of two kings of Spain,
Charles II and Philip V. This book places Roldan within a wider
historical and social context, exploring what life would have been
like for her as a woman sculptor in early modern Spain. It
considers her work alongside that of other artists of the Baroque
period, including Velazquez, Murillo, and Zurbaran. Reflecting on
the opportunities available to her during this time, as well as the
challenges she faced, Catherine Hall-van den Elsen weaves the
narrative of Roldan's story with analysis, revealing the
complexities of her oeuvre. Every year, newly discovered sculptures
in wood and in terracotta enter into Roldan's oeuvre. As her
artistic output begins to attract greater attention from scholars
and art lovers, Luisa Roldan provides invaluable insights into her
artistic achievements.
Manju netsuke have never been the subject of a book on netsuke.
Many books ignore them completely and it is hoped that this
catalogue will throw light on the differences between the manju and
other better-known types of netsuke. Dr. Barnett was one of a
handful of collectors of one particular type of netsuke, the manju.
These were not widely appreciated until about ten years ago when
interest began to increase and the exquisite workmanship and design
of this group of carvers was noticed as an art in its own right and
one which presents the artist with a challenge completely different
from the more popular katabori netsuke, carved in the round. Dr.
Barnett continued to collect until just before her death in 2000,
by which time she had acquired some of the finest pieces to be sold
over 30 years which will be presented in this book. Manju netsuke
have played a small part in the many publications on netsuke, but
there has never been a catalogue entirely devoted to the subject.
The book aims to provide a description of each object and to
explain the tales they illustrate and the sources of these tales,
from literature and printed picture books. The range of subjects is
wide and includes religious images, scenes from festivals, the
theatre, historical incidents, folktales, classical literature and
themes from nature. An introduction will include an essay on the
history, uses and the collecting of manju in which the techniques
of carving will be described and materials will be discussed.
Artists biographies, a glossary and bibliography will be included.
The catalogue will accompany an exhibition of many of the pieces in
this collection alongside woodblock prints from the Ashmolean
Museum's collection which illustrate the same legends and subjects.
This will take place in the Eastern Art Paintings Gallery.
Here is a fascinating study of commercial glass production along
the Ohio River Valley in the 1950s and 1960s. Companies such as
Blenko, Pilgrim, Rainbow, Viking, Kanawaha, Bischiff, Morgantown,
and others made free- and mold-blown production glass in modern,
sometimes bizarre shapes and wildly vibrant colors. Over 100 new
images have been added to this revised and expanded second edition,
for a total of over 530 color photographs of the beautiful glass,
its labels, catalog pages, company histories. An updated price
guide provides valuable insight into today's marketplace.
Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and
films. Many have tried, often in vain, to put into words the
strange power of his boxes--toy-like constructions whose
playfulness and humor are anchored in a profound melancholy and
loneliness. "Slot machines of visions," said Octavio Paz. Cornell
himself is said to have enjoyed children's responses to his work;
perhaps because nothing prepares one better for viewing a Cornell
box than having an unbiased mind. Catherine Corman has combed
through the voluminous diaries that Cornell kept throughout his
life, now in the care of the Smithsonian's Archives of American
Art, in search of the artist's own dreams. What she found are brief
flashes of images, and short, enigmatic narratives of
illumination--the verbal equivalent of Cornell boxes. In 1993, Mary
Ann Caws edited a large portion of Cornell's diaries for
publication by Thames & Hudson, an invaluable sourcebook for
Cornell studies. This new, shorter volume is a poetic addition to
that literature, equally indispensible to those interested in
Cornell as it contains previously unpublished writings, but also
because it is as intriguing and mysterious to the uninitiated as
the magical boxes themselves.
In this book, Rachel Kousser draws on contemporary reception theory
to present a new approach to Hellenistic and Roman ideal sculpture.
She analyzes the Romans preference for retrospective, classicizing
statuary based on Greek models as opposed to the innovative
creations prized by modern scholars. Using a case study of a
particular sculptural type, a forceful yet erotic image of Venus,
Kousser argues that the Romans self-consciously employed such
sculptures to represent their ties to the past in a rapidly
evolving world. Kousser presents Hellenistic and Roman ideal
sculpture as an example of a highly effective artistic tradition
that was, by modern standards, extraordinarily conservative. At the
same time, the Romans flexible and opportunistic use of past forms
also had important implications for the future: it constituted the
origins of classicism in Western art."
This is the first biography and reference book dedicated to Samuel
Percy, a modeller who produced an impressive oeuvre of wax
portraits and tableaux in the mid-to-late eighteenth and early
nineteenth century. Based in part on the author's own substantial
collection of Percy waxes, this book follows Percy from his
beginnings in Dublin, at the Dublin Society Drawing Schools,
working with the famed statuary John Van Nost; to England, where he
journeyed from town to town, putting advertisements in regional
newspapers. These revealing advertisements have been gathered here
for the first time, in order to track his travels. Whether taking
the likeness of Princess Charlotte of Wales, or falling victim to a
highway robber in Birmingham, these fragments of Percy's history
paint a fascinating picture of his life as a wandering artisan. As
well as a chronological narrative of Percy's life, this book
commits an entire chapter to an area of his work that has never
been studied before: his miniature tableaux. These portray various
subjects, both religious and secular, from Christ on the Cross to
playing children. They are catalogued in an appendix, and almost
thirty are illustrated. Based entirely on original research, Mr.
Percy: Portrait Modeller in Coloured Wax features over a hundred
illustrations, celebrating both Percy's accomplishments and the
works of other modellers for comparison.
Dramatic social and political change marks the period from the end
of the Late Bronze Age into the Iron Age (ca. 1300 700 BCE) across
the Mediterranean. Inland palatial centers of bureaucratic power
weakened or collapsed ca. 1200 BCE while entrepreneurial exchange
by sea survived and even expanded, becoming the Mediterranean-wide
network of Phoenician trade. At the heart of that system was
Kition, one of the largest harbor cities of ancient Cyprus. Earlier
research has suggested that Phoenician rule was established at
Kition after the abandonment of part of its Bronze Age settlement.
A reexamination of Kition s architecture, stratigraphy,
inscriptions, sculpture, and ceramics demonstrates that it was not
abandoned. This study emphasizes the placement and scale of images
and how they reveal the development of economic and social control
at Kition from its establishment in the thirteenth century BCE
until the development of a centralized form of government by the
Phoenicians, backed by the Assyrian king, in 707 BCE."
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