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Author : John Rood
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452911606
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Sculpture With a Torch written by John Rood and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1968-06-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Harvey
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764335549
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (355 download)
Download or read book A Universe of Metal Sculpture written by Henry Harvey and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The metal artist offers tips on tools, the creative process, and life as an artist and includes color photographs of selected works from his thirty-plus years of sculpting.5NjBwBT
Author : Dianne L. Durante
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814719864
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan written by Dianne L. Durante and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stop, look, and discover—the streets and parks of Manhattan are filled with beautiful historic monuments that will entertain, stimulate, and inspire you. Among the 54 monuments in this volume are major figures in American history: Washington, Lincoln, Lafayette, Horace Greeley, and Gertrude Stein; more obscure figures: Daniel Butterfield, J. Marion Sims, and King Jagiello; as well as the icons of New York: Atlas, Prometheus, and the Firemen's Memorial. The monuments represent the work of some of America's best sculptors: Augustus Saint Gaudens’ Farragut and Sherman, Daniel Chester French’s Four Continents, and Anna Hyatt Huntington’s José Martí and Joan of Arc. Each monument, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, is located on a map of Manhattan and includes easy-to-follow directions. All the sculptures are considered both as historical mementos and as art. We learn of furious General Sherman court-martialing a civilian journalist, and also of exasperated Saint Gaudens’ proposing a hook-and-spring device for improving his assistants' artistic acuity as they help model Sherman. We discover how Lincoln dealt with a vociferous Confederate politician from Ohio, and why the Lincoln in Union Square doesn't rank as a top-notch Lincoln portrait. Sidebars reveal other aspects of the figure or event commemorated, using personal quotes, poems, excerpts from nineteenth-century periodicals (New York Times, Harper's Weekly), and writers ranging from Aeschylus, Washington Irving, and Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi to Mark Twain and Henryk Sienkiewicz. As a historical account, Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide is a fascinating look at figures and events that changed New York, the United States and the world. As an aesthetic handbook it provides a compact method for studying sculpture, inspired by Ayn Rand’s writings on art. For residents and tourists, and historians and students, who want to spend more time viewing and appreciating sculpture and New York history, this is the start of a unique voyage of discovery.
Author : Chris Robertson
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811846691
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (466 download)
Download or read book Little Miss Liberty written by Chris Robertson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Little Miss Liberty, a very special child, outgrows her Paris home, she sets out on a journey in search of a place she can call her own.
Author : Carl Sandburg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Slabs of the Sunburnt West written by Carl Sandburg and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book NBS Special Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard De Bury
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486832465
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)
Download or read book The Philobiblon written by Richard De Bury and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Will always hold an honorable place for bibliophiles." — The University of Chicago Press One of the earliest treatises on the value of preserving neglected manuscripts, building a library, and book collecting, Richard De Bury's The Philobiblon was written in 1345 and circulated widely in manuscript form for over a century. The first printed edition appeared in Cologne in 1473, and several others soon followed as the invention of the printing press spread throughout the late Medieval world. The chapter titles of this legendary work reflect its nature, combining the author's love for and commitment to the importance of books and the knowledge they contain with thoughts on collecting them, lending them, teaching with them, and simply enjoying them: "That the Treasure of Wisdom is chiefly contained in books," "What we are to think of the price in the buying of books," "Who ought to be special lovers of books," and "Of the manner of lending all our books to students." The Prologue ends with the following thought: "And this treatise (divided into twenty chapters) will clear the love we have had for books from the charge of excess, will expound the purpose of our intense devotion, and will narrate more clearly than light all the circumstances of our undertaking. And because it principally treats of the love of books, we have chose after the fashion of the ancient Romans fondly to name it by a Greek word, Philobiblon." This volume offers modern bibliophiles a splendid edition of one of the first books ever to study, define, and, above all, praise their passion: the all-encompassing love of books.
Author : University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 1931707847
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (317 download)
Download or read book Classical Sculpture written by University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 2006 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Romano describes each piece completely, with measurements, accession data where known, report of condition, a list of the published sources, and commentary reflecting the most recent scholarship. Photographs provide additional information for each entry. An accompanying CD includes 54 color images, many of which are of the pieces. Various audiences will appreciate the accessibility of the scholarship presented here; students may engage in further study on some of the topics raised by individual pieces or groups of sculptures, and the scholarly community will welcome a work that provides an up-to-date and comprehensive examination of a significant Classical sculpture collection."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : British Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Townley Gallery of Classic Sculpture in the British Museum written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Stanley-Price
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780892363988
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (639 download)
Download or read book Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage written by Nicholas Stanley-Price and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1996-09-26 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first comprehensive collection of texts on the conservation of art and architecture to be published in the English language. Designed for students of art history as well as conservation, the book consists of forty-six texts, some never before translated into English and many originally published only in obscure or foreign journals. The thirty major art historians and scholars represented raise questions such as when to restore, what to preserve, and how to maintain aesthetic character. Excerpts have been selected from the following books and essays: John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture; Bernard Berenson, Aesthetics and History in the Visual Arts; Clive Bell, The Aesthetic Hypothesis; Cesare Brandi, Theory of Restoration; Kenneth Clark, Looking at Pictures; Erwin Panofsky, The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline; E. H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion; Marie Cl. Berducou, The Conservation of Archaeology; and Paul Philippot, Restoration from the Perspective of the Social Sciences. The fully illustrated book also contains an annotated bibliography and an index.
Author : Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299177102
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (771 download)
Download or read book Hellenistic Sculpture written by Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the final volume in Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway's series of books covering the entire range of Greek sculpture, from its inception to its virtual end as it merged into the production of the Roman Imperial world. Volume III discusses sculptural works, both architectural and free-standing, from approximately 100 B.C. to the Battle of Actium (31 B.C.), which removed from power the last Hellenistic ruler. Although some monuments may belong to the years just before or just after this timespan, Ridgway's aim is to concentrate on works plausibly dated to the first century B.C., even those with highly controversial chronologies. Famous sculptures--the Laokoon, the epic groups from the Sperlonga cave, the Belvedere Torso, the bronze Boxer in the Terme Museum, and many others--are discussed together with less well known pieces. Ridgway gives special emphasis to the finds from two shipwrecks--the Mahdia and the Antikythera wrecks--that provide a reasonable terminus ante quem, and argues that many of the stylistic trends and decorative objects usually considered typically Roman instead have their roots in the Greek world. This last Hellenistic phase is perhaps the most interesting of the three because it documents, to a great extent, the transformation of the products of one culture into those of another with different interests and priorities. Far from being an unimaginative, inferior output driven by commercial considerations, the statuary of the first century B.C. is vibrant and inventive, drawing from many sources in a stylistic eclecticism.
Author : David Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Art Hand-book, Sculpture, Architecture, Painting written by David Gray and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book ART HAND-BOOK; OFFICIAL HANDBOOK OF ARCHITECTURE & SCULPTURE & ART CATALOGUE written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Kemp
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781848224674
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Visions of Heaven written by Martin Kemp and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the greatest European writers, whose untrammelled imaginative capacity was matched by a huge base in embracing the science of his era. His texts also paint compelling visual images. In Visions of Heaven, renowned scholar Martin Kemp investigates Dante's supreme vision of divine light and its implications for the visual artists who were the inheritors of Dante's vision. The whole book may be regarded as a new Paragone (comparison), the debate that began in the Renaissance about which of the arts is superior. Dante's ravishing accounts of divine light set painters the severest challenge, which took them centuries to meet. A major theme running through Dante's Divine Comedy, particularly in its third book, the Paradiso, centres on Dante's acts of seeing (conducted according to optical rules with respect to the kind of visual experience that can be accomplished on earth) and the overwhelming of Dante's earthly senses by heavenly light, which does not obey his rules of earthly optics. The repeated blinding of Dante by excessive light sets the tone for artists' portrayal of unseeable brightness.
Author : Nathan Cabot Hale
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486281353
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Creating Welded Sculpture written by Nathan Cabot Hale and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1994-07-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profusely illustrated guide, newly revised, offers detailed coverage of basic tools and techniques of welded sculpture. Abstract shapes, modeling solid figures, arc welding, large-scale welding, and more. 196 illustrations.
Author : John W. Mills
Publisher : New York : Reinhold Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Technique of Sculpture written by John W. Mills and published by New York : Reinhold Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1965 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Mitchell
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802192556
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Liberty's Torch written by Elizabeth Mitchell and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Turns out that what you thought you knew about Lady Liberty is dead wrong. Learn the truth in this fascinating account.” —O, The Oprah Magazine The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable monuments in the world, a powerful symbol of freedom and the American dream. For decades, the myth has persisted that the statue was a grand gift from France, but now Liberty’s Torch reveals how she was in fact the pet project of one quixotic and visionary French sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. Bartholdi not only forged this 151-foot-tall colossus in a workshop in Paris and transported her across the ocean, but battled to raise money for the statue and make her a reality. A young sculptor inspired by a trip to Egypt where he saw the pyramids and Sphinx, he traveled to America, carrying with him the idea of a colossal statue of a woman. There he enlisted the help of notable people of the age—including Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph Pulitzer, Victor Hugo, Gustave Eiffel, and Thomas Edison—to help his scheme. He also came up with inventive ideas to raise money, including exhibiting the torch at the Philadelphia world’s fair and charging people to climb up inside. While the French and American governments dithered, Bartholdi made the statue a reality by his own entrepreneurship, vision, and determination. “By explaining Liberty’s tortured history and resurrecting Bartholdi’s indomitable spirit, Mitchell has done a great service. This is narrative history, well told. It is history that connects us to our past and—hopefully—to our future.” —Los Angeles Times
