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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms > Sculpture
Although originally trained as a painter, Shingu became interested
in sculpture when he saw one of his shaped canvases turning softly
in the wind. The work that followed relied on natural forces to
make it move or make sound, and he began using more sophisticated
materials for outdoor works. By the time of Expo '70 in Osaka,
Shingu had been commissioned to create a piece for the plaza. It
contained many of the elements he would use later: parts of it were
moved by both wind and water, in some ways harnessing their power
but also buffeted by it. His work walks the fine line between
complementing nature and being an integral part of it. The pieces,
though large, colorful, and usually made of modern materials, adopt
nature's rhythms in their movement. Shingu's sculpture is found
around the world, from Japan to France, Italy, and the United
States. In addition to creating sculptures, he has written and
illustrated several children's books and designed several theater
pieces that integrate his sculptures and installations with
dramatic stories. All of these endeavors are collected here - along
with the artist's comments on many of the sculptures, essays by
Pierre Restany and Renzo Piano, and an interview with Joseph
Giovannini - in a monograph that provides a complete portrait of
Shingu's diverse career.
Winner of the Holyer an Gof Award 2022 (Leisure and Lifestyle) An
illustrated guide to one hundred of the finest early Cornish stone
crosses, dating from around AD 900 to 1300. These characteristic
features of the Cornish landscape are splendid examples of their
type, exhibiting a wide geographical spread and a certain
weather-beaten beauty. The medieval stone crosses of Cornwall have
long been objects of curiosity both for residents and visitors.
This is the first ever accessible volume on the subject, combining
detailed description and discussion of the crosses with information
on access, colour images and suggestions for further reading. An
approachable but academically rigorous work, it includes analysis
of the decorative designs and sculptural techniques, accompanied by
high-quality photographs which illustrate the subtleties of each
cross, often hard to discern in situ. Ancient and High Crosses of
Cornwall offers an ideal introduction for the general reader but
will also prove essential to local historians, landscape
historians, archaeologists and anyone working in the area of
Cornish studies or connected with the Cornish diaspora. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47788/NKIP4746
Statues were everywhere in the Roman world. They served as objects of cult, honours to emperors and noblemen, and memorials to the dead. Combining close attention to individual Roman texts and images with an unprecedented broad perspective on this remarkable phenomenon, Statues in Roman Society explains the impact which all kinds of statuary had on the ancient population.
Fresh ideas and techniques for the rapidly evolving area of
three-dimensional textiles. Leading textile artist Ann Goddard
takes three-dimensional textiles to a new level in this practical
book. Drawing inspiration from natural landscapes, organic material
and a concern for the environment, Ann's work combines textile and
non/textile elements with construction. Linen, loose fibres, paper
and yarn are complemented by seemingly unlikely materials including
concrete, wood, lead and bark. Fragile is juxtaposed with hard,
natural with man-made, beauty with imperfection. The techniques
range from stitching, wrapping, couching, and knotting to sawing,
drilling, and casting. In this book, previously separate art media
are combined to create eclectic works; boundaries are crossed,
expectations challenged and categorisation rejected. Mixed Media
Textile Art in Three Dimensions takes a linear look at the creative
process from themes, research and experimentation through to
preparing elements, conveying meaning and constructing
three-dimensional forms, encouraging you to broaden your horizons
in textile work. Brimming with beautiful artwork from the author
and featuring the work of some inspiring and exciting artists
creating three-dimensional constructions.
This book demonstrates that copper-alloy casting was widespread in
southern Nigeria and has been practiced for at least a millennium.
Philip M. Peek's research provides a critical context for the
better-known casting traditions of Igbo-Ukwu, Ife, and Benin. Both
the necessary ores and casting skills were widely available,
contrary to previous scholarly assumptions. The majority of the
Lower Niger Bronzes, which we know number in the thousands, are of
subjects not found elsewhere, such as leopard skull replicas,
grotesque bell heads, ritual objects, and humanoid figures.
Important puzzle pieces are now in place to permit a more complete
reconstruction of southern Nigerian history. The book will be of
interest to scholars working in art history, African studies,
African history, and anthropology.
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Jeff Koons
- A Retrospective
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Scott Rothkopf; Contributions by Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdoerfer, …
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A fresh and engaging look at the controversial work of Jeff Koons,
with insightful analyses and illustrations of all of his iconic
pieces alongside preparatory works and historical photographs
Examining the breadth and depth of thirty-five years of work by
Jeff Koons (b. 1955), one of the most influential and controversial
artists of the 20th century, this highly anticipated volume
features all of his most famous pieces. In an engaging overview
essay, Scott Rothkopf carefully examines the evolution of Koons'
work and his development over the past thirty-five years, offering
a fresh scholarly perspective on the artist's multi-faceted career.
In addition, short essays by a wide range of interdisciplinary
contributors-from academics to novelists-probe provocative topics
such as celebrity and media, markets and money, and technology and
fabrication. Also included are preparatory sketches and plans for
sculptures and paintings as well as installation photographs that
shed light on Koons' artistic process and trace the development of
his work throughout his landmark career. Koons has risen to
international fame making art that reimagines and recontextualizes
images and objects from popular culture such as vacuum cleaners,
basketballs, and balloon animals. Created with painstaking
attention to detail by a team of fabricators, these objects raise
questions about taste and popular culture, and position Koons as
one of the most lauded and criticized artists working today.
Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art Exhibition
Schedule: Whitney Museum of American Art (06/27/14-10/19/14) Centre
Pompidou (11/26/14-04/27/15) Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
(06/05/15-09/27/15)
The groundbreaking sculptor's most comprehensive monograph to date
Jean-Michel Othoniel is an artist who creates sculptures that explore themes of fragility, transformation, and ephemerality. Using the repetition of such modular elements as bricks or beads, his work deploys various strategies that hint at loss and despair – cracks in his objects' perfect surfaces, negative spaces and, early in his career, transient materials such as sulfur. The most authoritative study of the artist's work to date, it includes intimate gallery pieces as well as monumental public commissions around the world.
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Naum Gabo
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Natalia Sidlina
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Principally known as the main protagonist of the Constructivist
movement in the 1920s, Russian artist Naum Gabo (1890 - 1977)
created some of the most inspirational sculptures of the
twentieth-century. His constructions, ranging from the early
figurative Head No.2, to his large public kinetic sculpture
commissions, embodied the modernist preoccupations of art in
relation to science, architecture and philosophy, and made him one
of the leading figures of the Russian avant-garde. After studying
engineering in Munich, Gabo moved back to Russia in 1917, and there
developed the theories and practice of Constructivism, a term he
coined with his brother in their 'Realistic Manifesto' of 1920
which promoted art as a part of man's everyday existence without
the confinement of artistic terms and convention. Gabo traveled
extensively to the hubs of modernism in Europe, spending time with
the de Stijl and teaching at the Bauhaus, and in Paris in the wake
of Nazi occupation to join Mondrian's Abstraction-Creation group.
Upon the outbreak of World War II, he moved to Cornwall, where his
influence on the St Ives group can be seen in the work of
BarbaraHepworth and Peter Lanyon, amongst others. He later
emigrated to the United States. Gabo's work is most admired for its
rigorous enquiries into ways of representing mass, volume and
space. His sensitive and imaginative use of materials, ranging from
fishing line, to Perspex, to wood, created a rhythm and balance
within his sculptures evoking intense emotional responses. A new
dedicated monograph on this truly original artist is long overdue,
and this accessible and comprehensive book is the ideal guide to
Gabo's life and work. Containing over 140 colour illustrations,
including photographs from private archives and the artist's family
collections, "Naum Gabo" will introduce a new audience to the
achievements of one of the twentieth-century's most unsung artistic
masters.
This volume investigates the artistic development during the Qing
Dynasty, the last of imperial Chinese dynasties, and shows the
importance of opera and playwriting during this time period.
Further analysis is dedicated to the development of scroll painting
and the revival of calligraphy and seal carving. A General History
of Chinese Art comprises six volumes with a total of nine parts
spanning from the Prehistoric Era until the 3rd year of Xuantong
during the Qing Dynasty (1911). The work provides a comprehensive
compilation of in-depth studies of the development of art
throughout the subsequent reign of Chinese dynasties and explores
the emergence of a wide range of artistic categories such as but
not limited to music, dance, acrobatics, singing, story telling,
painting, calligraphy, sculpture, architecture, and crafts. Unlike
previous reference books, A General History of Chinese Art offers a
broader overview of the notion of Chinese art by asserting a more
diverse and less material understanding of arts, as has often been
the case in Western scholarship.
An exploration of the art and writing of Louise Bourgeois through
the lens of her relationship with Freudian psychoanalysis From 1952
to 1985, Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) underwent extensive Freudian
analysis that probed her family history, marriage, motherhood, and
artistic ambition-and generated inspiration for her artwork.
Examining the impact of psychoanalysis on Bourgeois's work, this
volume offers insight into her creative process. Philip
Larratt-Smith, Bourgeois's literary archivist, provides an overview
of the artist's life and work and the ways in which the
psychoanalytic process informed her artistic practice. An essay by
Juliet Mitchell offers a cutting-edge feminist psychoanalyst's
viewpoint on the artist's long and complex relationship with
therapy. In addition, a short text written by Bourgeois (first
published in 1991) addresses Freud's own relationship to art and
artists. Featuring excerpts from Bourgeois's copious diaries,
rarely seen notebook pages, and archival family photographs, Louise
Bourgeois, Freud's Daughter opens exciting new avenues for
understanding an innovative, influential, and groundbreaking artist
whose wide-ranging work includes not only renowned large-scale
sculptures but also a plethora of paintings and prints. Published
in association with the Jewish Museum, New York Exhibition
Schedule: Jewish Museum, New York (May 21-September 26, 2021)
Chinese Buddhist wooden sculptures of Water-moon Guanyin, a
Bodhisattva sitting in a leisurely reclining pose on a rocky
throne, are housed in Western collections and are thus removed from
their original context(s). Not only are most of them of unknown
origin, but also do lack a precise date. Tracing their sources is
moreover difficult because of the scant information provided by art
dealers in previous periods. Thus, only preliminary investigations
into their stylistic development and technical features have been
made so far. Moreover, until recently none of the Chinese temples
that provided their original context, i.e. their
precise/exact/specific position within those temple compounds and
their respective place in the Buddhist pantheon, have been examined
at all. In her study, Petra H Roesch investigates these very
aspects, including questions about the religious position and
function of the sculptures of this special Bodhisattva. She also
looks at the technical construction, the collecting of Chinese
Buddhist sculptures in general and those sculptures made of wood in
particular. She uses a combination of stylistic, iconographical,
buddhological, as well as technical methodologies in her
investigation of the Water-moon Guanyin images and sheds light on
the Buddhist temples in Shanxi Province, the works of art they once
housed, and the religious practices of the eleventh to thirteenth
centuries connected with them.
Netsuke - classic belt decorations for men - are rooted in a
historical, mythological and artistic tradition in Japanese
culture. Woodcarvers and their pupils, even counterfeiters,
continued the work of their role models, in copies or variants of
what came before them, and even created major works of art with the
smallest of dimensions. Since the opening up of Japan in 1853, the
miniature works have gained appreciation, and enthusiasts are found
all over the world. Today netsuke are still being created in a
great variety of motifs. Netsuke in Comparison presents one hundred
netsuke from a private collection. For the very first time, it
endeavours to juxtapose them with comparative images from
collections and literature in order to locate them within this
genre and to convey something of their diversity and
expressiveness. Text in English and German.
The Hanau City Map project by Claus Bury relates to the new city of
Hanau, which was formed from 1597 on and is characterised by its
strictly geometric pattern of streets and star-shaped ramparts. The
walk-on granite sculpture on the square directly next to the
Walloon-Dutch church references the city map engraved in copper in
1632 by Matthaus Merian and revitalises Hanau's historical 17th
century topography through its relief-like recesses and
encompassing seating areas. An installation spanning centuries that
brings the history, present, and future into a flourishing dialogue
for the visitors of Hanau. Text in English and German.
The ethnographic literature of the 20th century focused mainly on
the sculptural traditions of the numerous ethnic groups that
populated Southern Nigeria while the more northern areas remained
largely terra incognita. In 2013 Jan Strybol published a study on
the sculpture of Northern Nigeria. He pointed out that in many
parts of this region there are people who still had, at least until
recently, their own sculptural tradition. In this study the author
restricted himself to what is referred to as the Middle Belt and
especially to the part between the Bauchi Plateau, the Gongola
River and the Katsina Ala River. In 1974 Roy Sieber pointed out
that, with a few exceptions, the people who were members of the
Niger-Congo language family laid the foundations for the great
African sculptural traditions south of the Sahara. However, the
largest group of iconophile peoples in the Central Middle Belt of
Nigeria is to be found in the Chadic branch of the Afro-Asiatic
language family. In this book of objects from private collections
the author shows the great variety of the sculptures of the Middle
Belt. This study mainly deals with wooden figures but also contains
four wooden masks and three bronzes. Text in English and French.
Chihuly at Kew: Reflections on nature is a celebration of the work
of iconic artist Dale Chihuly, who once again is exhibiting his
luminous artworks in Kew's spectacular landscape, featuring pieces
never seen before in the UK. The book showcases these utterly
unique artworks across one of London's most spectacular landscapes,
in a perfect marriage of art, science, and nature. Stunning
photography depicts the dazzling art installations situated across
the Gardens, set within the landscape as well as in glasshouses and
in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art. Highlights
include the Drawings and Rotolo series, some of the most
technically challenging work that Chihuly has ever created, as well
as Seaforms, undulating forms that conjure underwater life. A
specially designed sculpture suspended from the ceiling of the
newly restored Temperate House provides one of the moss stunning
features of the exhibition and book. An introductory essay by Tim
Richardson accompanies the artworks, along with artist's chronology
and biography.
The Making of George Wyllie has been co-written by his elder
daughter, Louise Wyllie, and arts journalist Jan Patience.
Containing never-beforeseen images and fresh insight into his
influences and early life, this book seeks to answer questions
about the forces which shaped Wyllie's unique worldview.The voyage
begins with Wyllie's Glasgow childhood - a period 'disadvantaged by
happiness' - and moves on to time spent serving in the Pacific with
the Royal Navy during WWII, where he witnessed first-hand the
devastation caused by the world's first atomic bomb being dropped
on Hiroshima. After the war, like Robert Burns and Adam Smith
before him, Wyllie became an Excisemen. He made 'time for art' in
his forties, going on to create memorable public art works such as
the life-sized Straw Locomotive, which hung from the Finnieston
Crane in Glasgow, and the giant seaworthy Paper Boat, with the
letters QM (Question Mark) on her side.By the time of his death at
the age of ninety in 2012, this idiosyncratic self-taught artist
had laid out his vision of himself as the artist-shaman, arrow in
hand, making a last Cosmic Voyage.
This book restores the fountains of Roman Byzantium, Byzantine
Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul, reviving the sounds, shapes,
smells and sights of past water cultures. Constantinople, the
capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, is surrounded on
three sides by sea, and has no major river to deliver clean,
potable water. However, the cultures that thrived in this
remarkable waterscape through millennia have developed and
sustained diverse water cultures and a water delivery system that
has supported countless fountains, some of which survive today.
Scholars address the delivery system that conveyed and stored
water, and the fountains, large and small, from which it gushed.
Papers consider spring water, rainwater and seawater; water
suitable for drinking, bathing and baptism; and fountains real,
imagined and symbolic. Experts in the history of art and culture,
archaeology and theology, and poetry and prose, offer reflections
on water and fountains across two millennia in one location.
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