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

De Wain Valentine: Works from the 1960s and 1970s (Hardcover): De Wain Valentine: Works from the 1960s and 1970s (Hardcover)
R890 R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Save R156 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Heidegger Among the Sculptors - Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling (Hardcover, New): Andrew Mitchell Heidegger Among the Sculptors - Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling (Hardcover, New)
Andrew Mitchell
R2,285 Discovery Miles 22 850 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In the 1950s and 60s, Martin Heidegger turned to sculpture to rethink the relationship between bodies and space and the role of art in our lives. In his texts on the subject—a catalog contribution for an Ernst Barlach exhibition, a speech at a gallery opening for Bernhard Heiliger, a lecture on bas-relief depictions of Athena, and a collaboration with Eduardo Chillida—he formulates his later aesthetic theory, a thinking of relationality. Against a traditional view of space as an empty container for discrete bodies, these writings understand the body as already beyond itself in a world of relations and conceive of space as a material medium of relational contact. Sculpture shows us how we belong to the world, a world in the midst of a technological process of uprooting and homelessness. Heidegger suggests how we can still find room to dwell therein. Filled with illustrations of works that Heidegger encountered or considered, Heidegger Among the Sculptors makes a singular contribution to the philosophy of sculpture.

The Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculpture (Paperback, UK ed.): Malcolm Thurlby, Bruce Coplestone-Crow The Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculpture (Paperback, UK ed.)
Malcolm Thurlby, Bruce Coplestone-Crow
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Papier Mache, Volume 4 - A step-by-step guide to creating more than a dozen adorable projects! (Paperback): Sarah Hand Papier Mache, Volume 4 - A step-by-step guide to creating more than a dozen adorable projects! (Paperback)
Sarah Hand
R427 R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Save R43 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Not Vital: Scarch (Paperback): Not Vital Not Vital: Scarch (Paperback)
Not Vital; Text written by Giorgia Von Albertini, Philip Jodidio, Akhmed Haidera
R1,058 Discovery Miles 10 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bernar Venet (Paperback): Clare Lilley, Barry Schwabsky, Florence Derieux Bernar Venet (Paperback)
Clare Lilley, Barry Schwabsky, Florence Derieux
R933 R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Save R71 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first true monograph on the work of celebrated French conceptual artist and sculptor Bernar Venet Bernar Venet is one of France's most celebrated living artists. Having emerged from the late 1960s avant-garde scene in New York, Venet developed a personal aesthetic based on an innovative use of mathematics and science, where control, chance, and chaos converge to form a fine equilibrium while investigating their relationship with the environment. Conversant in many media, Venet is mostly known for his monumental outdoor sculptures in major cities worldwide and, in fall 19, his Arc Majeur is due for completion at a site in Belgium - at almost 200 feet in height (60 metres), Venet's sculpture will be taller than New York's Statue of Liberty.

The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne, Paintings and Sculpture late 1974-1976 (Hardcover): Andy Warhol Foundation, Sally King-Nero The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne, Paintings and Sculpture late 1974-1976 (Hardcover)
Andy Warhol Foundation, Sally King-Nero; Edited by Neil Printz
R10,295 Discovery Miles 102 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The 607 paintings and one sculpture documented in Volume 4 of The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne were produced during a period of less than three years, from late 1974 through early 1977. In September 1974, Warhol changed studios, moving across Union Square from the sixth floor of 33 Union Square West to the third floor of 860 West Broadway. Like Volumes 2 and 3, Volume 4 is identified with a new studio, where Warhol continued to work for a decade, until he moved into his last studio at 22 East 33rd Street on December 3, 1984. Volume 4 may be seen as the first in a series of books associated with one studio that will document an enormously productive ten-year period in Warhol's oeuvre from the mid seventies to the mid eighties.

Twenty Entities (Hardcover): Liz Finch Twenty Entities (Hardcover)
Liz Finch
R688 Discovery Miles 6 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This fascinating volume showcases the work of British artist, poet and performer Liz Finch and presents a series of 25 sculptures created between 1975 and 2016. The gentle figures are strangely familiar, built using found and made objects that might otherwise be discarded. Knitted limbs and faces with stitched or collaged features are affixed to torsos made from cardboard boxes that are plastered with papier-mâché and painted. The fragile bodies are then suspended on pieces of frayed string and twisted wire from the shoulders or sometimes by the neck. Finch subverts the ordinary and engages with the uncanny; a strange and anxious feeling created by familiar objects in unfamiliar contexts. Featuring full reproductions of each artwork alongside close details that reveal their composition, the book is threaded with poetic texts by Finch that blur the lines between personal memories, surreal dreams and everyday reality.

Alloys - American Sculpture and Architecture at Midcentury (Hardcover): Marin R. Sullivan Alloys - American Sculpture and Architecture at Midcentury (Hardcover)
Marin R. Sullivan
R1,412 Discovery Miles 14 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A new look at the interrelationship of architecture and sculpture during one of the richest periods of American modern design Alloys looks at a unique period of synergy and exchange in the postwar United States, when sculpture profoundly shaped architecture, and vice versa. Leading architects such as Gordon Bunshaft and Eero Saarinen turned to sculptors including Harry Bertoia, Alexander Calder, Richard Lippold, and Isamu Noguchi to produce site-determined, large-scale sculptures tailored for their buildings' highly visible and well-traversed threshold spaces. The parameters of these spaces-atriums, lobbies, plazas, and entryways-led to various designs like sculptural walls, ceilings, and screens that not only embraced new industrial materials and processes, but also demonstrated art's ability to merge with lived architectural spaces. Marin Sullivan argues that these sculptural commissions represent an alternate history of midcentury American art. Rather than singular masterworks by lone geniuses, some of the era's most notable spaces-Philip Johnson's Four Seasons Restaurant in Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, Max Abramovitz's Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center, and Pietro Belluschi and Walter Gropius's Pan Am Building-would be diminished without the collaborative efforts of architects and artists. At the same time, the artistic creations within these spaces could not exist anywhere else. Sullivan shows that the principle of synergy provides an ideal framework to assess this pronounced relationship between sculpture and architecture. She also explores the afterlives of these postwar commissions in the decades since their construction. A fresh consideration of sculpture's relationship to architectural design and functionality following World War II, Alloys highlights the affinities between the two fields and the ways their connections remain with us today.

Oh Sh*t... What Now? - Honest Advice for New Graphic Designers (Paperback): Craig Oldham Oh Sh*t... What Now? - Honest Advice for New Graphic Designers (Paperback)
Craig Oldham
R522 R475 Discovery Miles 4 750 Save R47 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

So you've graduated. What now? Where do you live? Can you afford to live? How can you make money doing design? How do you get a job? Who do you want to work for and are you good enough? This book is a comprehensive and insightful guide to anything and everything that is of use to those looking to break into the creative industries, sharing experiences, ideas, advice, criticism, and encouragement. With sections covering education, portfolios, jobs/freelancing, working process, and personal development, this straight-talking, funny, and frequently irreverent guide is a must-read for all creative arts students.

ColourSpace - David Batchelor, Ian Davenport, Lothar Goetz, Jim Lambie, Annie Morris, Fiona Rae (English, Italian, Hardcover):... ColourSpace - David Batchelor, Ian Davenport, Lothar Goetz, Jim Lambie, Annie Morris, Fiona Rae (English, Italian, Hardcover)
Catherine Loewe
R836 Discovery Miles 8 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Colour is at the core of our perception, the very essence of how we see and understand the world, but the question to ask is: how does one interpret it? Six well-known British artists - David Batchelor, Ian Davenport, Lothar Goetz, Jim Lambie, Annie Morris, Fiona Rae - have interpreted in different ways, the relationship of colour within space. Colour is the main protagonist of their works: it can be found in Batchelor's sculptures assembled with found objects, in the coloured trails of Davenport's paintings, in Fiona Rae's delicate, floating marks on white surfaces, and in Annie Morris' sculptures that powerfully define the environment. Finally, the colour comes out of the paintings to invade the walls and the floor of the Gallery itself, with two site-specific creations: an entire wall painted by Lothar Goetz, and Zobop, the floor made of vinyl by Jim Lambie. Text in English and Italian.

Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII (Hardcover): Edward J. Olszewski Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII (Hardcover)
Edward J. Olszewski
R1,455 Discovery Miles 14 550 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Pierre Culot (Hardcover): Anne Bony, Tyas Matthew Pierre Culot (Hardcover)
Anne Bony, Tyas Matthew
R1,686 Discovery Miles 16 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Pierre Culot (1938-2011) was a Belgian ceramist and sculptor who was trained by Antoine de Vinck and English master potter Bernard Leach. He is one of the ceramists of the 1950s who transformed their craft into an art form. In his work, Pierre Culot passionately expresses his desire to be in the world, to be on earth and to be in nature the sole generator of life and beauty. The clay that he molds into slabs, scratches and enamels becomes containers for daily use with majestic presence. Over his career Culot aimed at mastery of his practice, shaping his pieces in terms of size and in surface effect, by combining the raw earth in each item with luxuriant enamels that had unique variations.   All of Culot’s life he remained faithful to his initial experience as a potter, evolving his ceramic works from basic forms (bowls, plates, jugs) to more daring shapes (cruciform vases, gourds, compound pots, inkwells), and even into the landscape space by sculpting garden walls. This book offers a complete overview of his unique and multi-faceted career in pottery, sculpture and landscaping.   Distributed for Mercatorfonds

Contemporary British Ceramics and the Influence of Sculpture - Monuments, Multiples, Destruction and Display (Hardcover): Laura... Contemporary British Ceramics and the Influence of Sculpture - Monuments, Multiples, Destruction and Display (Hardcover)
Laura Gray
R4,405 Discovery Miles 44 050 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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.

Gavin Turk - Who What When Where How and Why (Hardcover): Darian Leader, Gavin Turk Gavin Turk - Who What When Where How and Why (Hardcover)
Darian Leader, Gavin Turk
R1,679 R1,407 Discovery Miles 14 070 Save R272 (16%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Grinling Gibbons and the Golden Age of Woodcarving (Paperback): Ada de Wit Grinling Gibbons and the Golden Age of Woodcarving (Paperback)
Ada de Wit
R3,985 Discovery Miles 39 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Patrick Roger - 2. Sculptures (Paperback): Patrick Roger Patrick Roger - 2. Sculptures (Paperback)
Patrick Roger
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Award-winning chocolate artist Patrick Roger (Meilleur Ouvrier de France chocolatier 2000) has pursued a parallel body of longer-lasting work, creating sculptures in a variety of materials, including bronze, aluminium, silicone, marble, and concrete. He begins with chocolate as a base, working this malleable material quickly with techniques he has perfected over many years, before casting it. This book, the second volume of his sculpted works (Volume 1 was published in 2018), features 177 new creations that are described in detail and beautifully photographed. Further insight into Roger’s work is found in a notebook of contemporary inspirations and a reproduction of his personal sketchbook. Text in French.

The New Monuments and the End of Man - U.S. Sculpture between War and Peace, 1945-1975 (Hardcover): Robert Slifkin The New Monuments and the End of Man - U.S. Sculpture between War and Peace, 1945-1975 (Hardcover)
Robert Slifkin
R954 Discovery Miles 9 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How leading American artists reflected on the fate of humanity in the nuclear era through monumental sculpture In the wake of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, artists in the United States began to question what it meant to create a work of art in a world where humanity could be rendered extinct by its own hand. The New Monuments and the End of Man examines how some of the most important artists of postwar America revived the neglected tradition of the sculptural monument as a way to grapple with the cultural and existential anxieties surrounding the threat of nuclear annihilation. Robert Slifkin looks at such iconic works as the industrially evocative welded steel sculptures of David Smith, the austere structures of Donald Judd, and the desolate yet picturesque earthworks of Robert Smithson. Transforming how we understand this crucial moment in American art, he traces the intersections of postwar sculptural practice with cybernetic theory, science-fiction cinema and literature, and the political debates surrounding nuclear warfare. Slifkin identifies previously unrecognized affinities of the sculpture of the 1940s and 1950s with the minimalism and land art of the 1960s and 1970s, and acknowledges the important contributions of postwar artists who have been marginalized until now, such as Raoul Hague, Peter Grippe, and Robert Mallary. Strikingly illustrated throughout, The New Monuments and the End of Man spans the decades from Hiroshima to the Fall of Saigon, when the atomic bomb cast its shadow over American art.

Niki de Saint Phalle - and the Tarot Garden (Hardcover): Marella Caracciolo Chia Niki de Saint Phalle - and the Tarot Garden (Hardcover)
Marella Caracciolo Chia
R1,351 R1,077 Discovery Miles 10 770 Save R274 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Influenced by Gaudi's Parc Guell in Barcelona, and the mannerist park of Bomarzo, Niki de Saint Phalle decided that she wanted to make something similar; a monumental sculpture park created by a woman. In 1974, she was donated some land in Garavicchio, Tuscany, about 100 km north-west of Rome along the coast. The garden, on which planning started in 1978, contains sculptures of the symbols found on Tarot cards. It opened in 1998, after more than 20 years of work. The garden was still incomplete when Niki de Saint Phalle died. With elaborate illustrations and sensitively written texts this book presents in detail the formation of the garden and the underlying ideas.

Adrian Villar Rojas (Paperback): Hans Ulrich Obrist, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Eungie Joo Adrian Villar Rojas (Paperback)
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Eungie Joo
R933 R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Save R71 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first book to explore the fascinating career and fantasy-driven worlds created by the acclaimed Argentinean artist Adrian Villar Rojas's works concoct imaginary realms. Usually made from clay, his colossal installations are transitory and so cannot be collected, as they disappear or decay over time. His practice confronts the public with ideas of obsolescence and extinction, but also with the possibilities of humankind and its endless imagination. This is the first book to include all of Villar Rojas' most significant projects, featured in international biennials such as Venice, Documenta, Shanghai, and others.

The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa, Second Edition - Contours in the Air (Paperback, 2nd edition): Timothy Anglin Burgard, Daniell... The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa, Second Edition - Contours in the Air (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Timothy Anglin Burgard, Daniell Cornell
R1,002 Discovery Miles 10 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An expanded edition of the definitive book on Ruth Asawa's fascinating life and her lasting contributions to American art. The work of American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) is brought into brilliant focus in this definitive book, originally published to accompany the first complete retrospective of Asawa's career, organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 2006. This new edition features an expanded collection of essays and a detailed illustrated chronology that explore Asawa's fascinating life and her lasting contributions to American art. Beginning with her earliest works-drawings and paintings created in the 1940s while she was studying at Black Mountain College-this beautiful volume traces Asawa's flourishing career in San Francisco and her trajectory as a pioneering modernist sculptor who is recognized internationally for her innovative wire sculptures, public commissions, and activism on behalf of public arts education. Through her lifelong experimentations with wire, especially its capacity to balance open and closed forms, Asawa invented a powerful vocabulary that contributed a unique perspective to the field of twentieth-century abstract sculpture. Working in a variety of nontraditional media, Asawa performed a series of remarkable metamorphoses, leading viewers into a deeper awareness of natural forms by revealing their structural properties. Through her art, Asawa transfigured the commonplace into metaphors for life processes themselves. The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa establishes the importance of Asawa's work within a larger cultural context of artists who redefined art as a way of thinking and acting in the world, rather than as merely a stylistic practice. This updated edition includes a new introduction and more than fifty new images, as well as original essays that reflect on the impact of American political history on Asawa's artistic vision, her experience with printmaking, and her friendship with photographer Imogen Cunningham. Contributors include Susan Ehrens, Mary Emma Harris, Karin Higa, Jacqueline Hoefer, Emily K. Doman Jennings, Paul J. Karlstrom, John Kreidler, Susan Stauter, Colleen Terry, and Sally B. Woodbridge. Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF).

Alberto Giacometti: A Biography (Hardcover): Catherine Grenier Alberto Giacometti: A Biography (Hardcover)
Catherine Grenier
R855 R699 Discovery Miles 6 990 Save R156 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts (Hardcover, 0): Alessandra Violi, Barbara Grespi, Andrea Pinotti,... Bodies of Stone in the Media, Visual Culture and the Arts (Hardcover, 0)
Alessandra Violi, Barbara Grespi, Andrea Pinotti, Pietro Conte; Contributions by Cristina Baldacci, …
R4,154 R3,942 Discovery Miles 39 420 Save R212 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

If mediatization has surprisingly revealed the secret life of inert matter and the 'face of things', the flipside of this has been the petrification of living organisms, an invasion of stone bodies in a state of suspended animation. Within a contemporary imaginary pervaded by new forms of animism, the paradigm of death looms large in many areas of artistic experimentation, pushing the modern body towards mineral modes of being which revive ancient myths of flesh-made-stone and the issue of the monument. Scholars in media, visual culture and the arts propose studies of bodies of stone, from actors simulating statues to the transmutation of the filmic body into a fossil; from the real treatment of the cadaver as a mineral living object to the rediscovery of materials such as wax; from the quest for a 'thermal' equivalence between stone and flesh to the transformation of the biomedical body into a living monument.

Paul McCarthy: Caribbean Pirates (Hardcover): Paul McCarthy Paul McCarthy: Caribbean Pirates (Hardcover)
Paul McCarthy; Text written by Damon McCarthy, John C. Welchman
R3,243 Discovery Miles 32 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture Volume IX, Cheshire and Lancashire (Hardcover): Richard N Bailey Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture Volume IX, Cheshire and Lancashire (Hardcover)
Richard N Bailey
R3,148 Discovery Miles 31 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume provides a full analytical catalog of all known pre-Norman sculpture from this region. As little documentary evidence survives from the area, the sculpture is vital to understanding the early development of the Church, the shifting relationships between communities, and the ways in which political affiliations gave access to a variety of cultural centers across England, Ireland, mainland Europe and Scandinavia.
Among the significant carvings are the crosses at Sandbach with their elaborate figural sculpture and the delicate carvings from Halton and Hornby in the Lune valley. Much of the work is of the 10th- and 11th-century Viking period, and shows an intriguing mixture of Scandinavian-derived motifs alongside Christian iconography.
Introductory chapters set the material within its historical, topographical and art-historical context.

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