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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms > Sculpture
This catalogue presents fourteen early sculptures by the late
artist, many of which had never before been shown in the United
States. Documented in vivid colour photographs, these exuberant
sculptures depict Anthony Caro's decision to bypass
representational imagery, and to use bright colours to synthesize
the bolted and welded metal parts that replaced it. Along with
installation shots and historical photographs, this vibrant book
includes a brand-new essay from Tim Marlow that tracks Caro's
development as a sculptor, as well as Rosalind Krauss's 1967 Art
International article on the artist and the nature of sculpture.
This catalogue is published in conjunction with Caro's 2015 show at
Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills.
One guilty secret will tear her life apart...After a series of
heart-breaking miscarriages, Kate's marriage is hanging by a
thread. When her husband Michael tells her he has shocking news, at
first, she thinks the worst - he's been having an affair. It would
explain why he's been so distant. Instead, he reveals that the
daughter he abandoned twenty years ago is coming to stay. Kate is
blindsided by the sudden arrival of Imogen mere hours later. Her
new stepdaughter is beautiful but troubled and seems wary of her
own father. All the same, Kate is pleased to find herself
connecting with Imogen, until one day, Imogen reveals a disturbing
secret to her stepmother, making her swear never to tell a soul.
With Kate already keeping secrets of her own, she worries her
marriage will crumble under the weight of another. But perhaps it's
not Imogen's intrusion Kate should be worried about. Perhaps it's
Michael's past she should have been looking at all along... A
completely addictive domestic suspense novel that will keep you
guessing into the early hours of the morning. Perfect for fans of
The Stepdaughter, Amanda Robson and Adele Parks. What readers are
saying about The Stepmother:'This elegantly written suspense novel
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Michael and their dysfunctional marriage... Compels the reader to
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twists & turns to keep one guessing' NetGalley Reviewer 'A
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'This is a story of a marriage failing, death and life's drama.
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Sculpture Victorious highlights the diversity, originality, and
ubiquity of sculptural production during the reign of Queen
Victoria. This lavishly illustrated book examines how colorful
marbles, bronzes, finely wrought silver, and exquisitely detailed
electrotypes, as well as gems, cameos, and porcelain, related to
and contributed to the contemporary world. In an age of
unprecedented territorial expansion, sculpture reflected the power
of the British empire; at the same time, increased access to
materials and resources facilitated artistic production and
innovation. The partnership between art and industry was equally
generative and creative, enabling daring explorations of
sculpture's possibilities, both political and aesthetic. Bringing
to bear a range of materials including statuary, reliefs, models,
drawings, and objets d'art, as well as prints, photographs, and
paintings, this stunning tome assembles, for the first time, the
vibrancy, inventiveness, and modernity of Victorian sculpture.
Published in association with the Yale Center for British Art
Exhibition Schedule: Yale Center for British Art
(09/11/14-11/30/14) Tate Britain (02/24/15-05/24/15)
In recent years, art historians have begun to delve into the
patronage, production and reception of sculptures-sculptors'
workshop practices; practical, aesthetic, and esoteric
considerations of material and materiality; and the meanings
associated with materials and the makers of sculptures. This volume
brings together some of the top scholars in the field, to
investigate how sculptors in early modern Italy confronted such
challenges as procurement of materials, their costs, shipping and
transportation issues, and technical problems of materials, along
with the meanings of the usage, hierarchies of materials, and
processes of material acquisition and production. Contributors also
explore the implications of these facets in terms of the intended
and perceived meaning(s) for the viewer, patron, and/or artist. A
highlight of the collection is the epilogue, an interview with a
contemporary artist of large-scale stone sculpture, which reveals
the similar challenges sculptors still encounter today as they
procure, manufacture and transport their works.
Italian sculptor Davide Rivalta seeks out wild animals in their
natural habitat and in captivity, then creates sculptures in bronze
that capture their energy, otherness, and power. This book
documents an exhibition at the Forte di Belvedere in Florence,
where Rivalta turns the gallery and garden into a savannah with
life-size buffalos, eagles, wolves, and a rhinoceros. Site-specific
wall drawings of large birds highlight another artistic practice
that the artist uses to explore the untamed essence of the animal
world. His works are on show in permanent exhibitions in various
cities, both in Italy and abroad, and have been shown in many art
galleries and museums.
The artist who created the statue for the Lincoln Memorial, John
Harvard in Harvard Yard, and The Minute Man in Concord,
Massachusetts, Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) is America's
best-known sculptor of public monuments. Monument Man is the first
comprehensive biography of this fascinating figure and his
illustrious career. Full of rich detail and beautiful archival
photographs, Monument Man is a nuanced study of a preeminent artist
whose evolution ran parallel to, and deeply influenced, the
development of American sculpture, iconography, and historical
memory. Monument Man was specially commissioned by Chesterwood /
National Trust for Historic Preservation. The release will coincide
with the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Chesterwood, his
country home and studio, as a public site and with a major
renovation of the Lincoln Memorial. The book includes a
comprehensive geographical guide to French's public work.
These intimate, emotive sculptures have evolved from personal
experience, even as they are infused with Colombian folk
traditions. Zapata's light-hearted works reveal a darker side where
folk and tribal art meet Christian iconography and merge spiritual
and political realities. Painted with hand-mixed pigments,
roughhewn and deceptively simple, Zapata's art is both celebratory
and unflinching.
Ramkinkar Vaij (1906-1980), a significant artist of twentieth
century India, is regarded as the first major figure in modern
Indian sculpture. Born into a poor family in Bankura district,
Bengal, he enrolled himself as a student in Santiniketan, at the
university founded by Rabindranath Tagore, at the age of 19. Having
made his home and found his creative metier there - as a student
first and a teacher later - he was one of the pioneering trio of
artists, along with Nandalal Bose and Benodebehari Mukherjee, who
made Santiniketan the most important center for art in India
between 1920 and 1947. Ramkinkar, as he was popularly known, was a
man who had enormous gifts but never aired them; an artist who was
single-minded in his pursuit of work but treated the results with
philosophic unconcern. Indifferent to success, fame and money, he
lived an unworldly and capricious life. His works reflect a great
zest for the gifts of nature and deep concern for the conditions of
poor and laboring people. The subject of this book is Ramkinkar's
sculptures as seen through the photographic lens of Devi Prasad,
supplemented by discussions on the artist's life and work in his
own words and through the eyes of his students, friends and
associates. Devi Prasad, who was a student at Kala Bhavan during
1938-44, went back to Santiniketan as a Visiting Professor in the
year 1978. During his stay there, he undertook a photographic study
of 60-odd sculptures of Ramkinkar. Towards the end of that year,
during the seventh Pous celebrations, he exhibited nearly 150 of
these photographs in three halls of Kala Bhavan. Ramkinkar himself,
though in poor health by then, inaugurated the exhibition; he was
deeply moved to see such a large photographic representation of his
works.This book on Ramkinkar's sculptures by Devi Prasad is
published as a tribute, to mark the artist's birth centenary year.
Anish Kapoor is one of a highly inventive generation of sculptors
who emerged in London in the early 1980s. Since then he has created
a remarkable body of work that blends a modernist sense of pure
materiality with a fascination for the manipulation of form and the
perception of space. This book--the first major American
publication on Kapoor's work--surveys his work since 1979, with a
focus on sculptures and installations made since the early 1990s.
With more than ninety color images of these ambitious and complex
works, three original essays, an extended interview with Kapoor,
and selections from his sketchbooks, this book confirms Anish
Kapoor's place as one of the most remarkable sculptors working
today. Kapoor's work has evolved into an abstract and perceptually
complex elaboration of the sculptural object as at once monumental
and evanescent, physical and ethereal--as in his famous "Cloud
Gate" (2004) in Chicago's Millennium Park. The works in "Anish
Kapoor" include such striking works as "Past, Present, Future"
(2006), "1000 Names" (1979-1980) and "When I Am Pregnant" (1992).
This book, which accompanies an exhibition at Boston's Institute of
Contemporary Art, offers American readers a long-overdue
opportunity to consider the extraordinary clarity, subtlety, and
power of Kapoor's art. Includes an interview with the artist by
Nicholas Baume. Exhibition: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
May 30-September 7, 2008 "Copublished with the Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston"
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