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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms > Sculpture
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Pallava Antiquities
(Paperback)
Gabriel 1885-1945 Jouveau-Dubreuil, V S Translator Svaminadha Dikshita
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R505
Discovery Miles 5 050
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Sokunge (As If)
(Paperback)
Masimba Hwati; Designed by Baynham Goredema; Interview by Ryan Chokureva
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R935
Discovery Miles 9 350
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Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among
the most significant artistic images of the 20th century. Sartre,
Breton, and Winnicott are just some of the great thinkers who have
drawn upon the graceful, harrowing work of Giacometti, which has
continued to resonate with artists, writers, and audiences. In this
book, Timothy Mathews explores the themes of fragility, trauma,
space, and relationality in Giacometti's art and the texts that
respond or refer to them: the novels of W.G. Sebald, Samuel Beckett
and Cees Nooteboom, and the theories of Bertolt Brecht, which
recasts the iconic L'Homme qui marche as Walter Benjamin's Angel of
History. During his lifelong quest to represent the human form, and
to locate the humanity at the heart of conflicting conceptions of
modernity, Giacometti returned to the key notions of depth and
flatness, memory and attachment, through his sculptures and
writings. Both a critical study of Giacometti's life and work, and
an investigation of their affective power, this book asks what
encounters with Giacometti's pieces can tell us about the history
of our own time, and our ways of looking; about the nature of human
attachment, and the humility of relating to art.
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.
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