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"Breathe new life into that old cardboard box! Though paper and cardboard seem common and humble materials, discover the totally unexpected, beautiful and intricate art that can be created using the repurposed and upcycled resource.The Art of Cardboard showcases the grand and imaginatinve scale of cardboard art and design. Inside, you'll find jaw-dropping cardboard creations from around the world! You'll dicover the process of each art form, as well...
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"When reclusive, millionaire artist Robert Indiana died in 2018, he left behind dark rumors and scandal, as well as an estate embroiled in lawsuits and facing accusations of fraud. Here is the true story of the artist's final days, the aftermath, the deceptive world that surrounded him, and the inner workings of art as very big business. "I'm an artist, not a business man," Robert Indiana said, refusing to copyright his iconic LOVE sculpture in 1965....
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Opened in 1913, Grand Central Terminal is a world-famous landmark building with a magnificent 48-foot-high, 1,500-ton statuary group on top of the main facade. Designed by sculptor Jules-Felix Coutan, a 13-foot-wide Tiffany clock serves as the centerpiece. The figure above the clock is Mercury, with Hercules to the left and Minerva to the right. In the late 1990s, a historic restoration was performed on the terminal after which two cast-iron eagle...
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Stanley Park, Vancouver, September 2014. A fourteen-foot bronze-cast cedar sculpture is being erected. Dignitaries from all levels of government are present, including leaders of the Coast Salish First Nations and representatives from Portugal's Azores Islands. Luke Marston, carver/artist, supervises as his three-year project is revealed to the world. The sculpture-titled Shore to Shore-depicts Luke's great-great-grandparents, Portuguese Joe Silvey,...
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The Professional Approach to Sculpting The Human Figure is the first book by Andrew Sinclair MRSS SWAC, recognized as a master of world-class figurative sculpture.
It is, based on Andrew's groundbreaking Sinclair Method, as taught at The Sculpture School, which completely transforms the building and creation of Contemporary Realist sculpture. This method is revolutionizing the approach to sculpture, also acting as a powerful source of knowledge,...
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Lo que este texto y su autor Jaime Reyes nos presenta, es un fragmento del camino creativo de José Balcells en la escultura, donde el escultor concibe la obra en relación a un nombre y los ejecutantes que la construyen están en el ejercicio de la fidelidad a la obra en su forma. Esta fidelidad es el libre some-timiento al sentido que la obra de arte propone. La palabra fidelidad aparece aquí con justeza porque sostiene a quienes están en una...
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Graffiti made from cake icing, man-made clouds floating indoors, a luminous moon resting on water. Collected here are dozens of jaw-dropping artworks-site-specific installations, extraordinary sculptures, and groundbreaking interventions in public spaces-that reveal the exciting things that happen when contemporary artists play with the idea of place. Unexpected Art showcases the wonderfully experimental work of more than 50 innovative artists from...
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La evolución de la escultura romana es similar a la que sufrió su arquitectura. Partiendo de un cauce etrusco, oscuro y desconcertante, fue deslizándose lentamente sobre las huellas de los griegos hasta encontrar su propio estilo, tan alejado de los unos como de los otros, pero nunca lo suficiente para que podamos decir que sus artistas crearon un estilo original.
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"Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster." So begins The Toaster Project, the author's nine-month-long journey from his local appliance store to remote mines in the UK to his mother's backyard, where he creates a crude foundry. Along the way, he learns that an ordinary toaster is made up of 404 separate parts, that the best way to smelt metal at home is by using a method found in a fifteenth-century treatise, and that plastic...
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The first biography of George Rickey, one of the greatest kinetic sculptors of the 20th century. His moving blades, squares, triangles, and circles can be, found in museums and public spaces around the world, from bucolic landscapes to the streets of New York City. Now, here is the story of his life, his times, and his vision of balance, that created something new, sculpture that is defined by movement.
Before his death in 2002, George Rickey created...
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"Finalist for the 2012 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011" Michael W. Cole is professor of art history at Columbia University. He is the author of Cellini and the Principles of Sculpture and the coeditor of The Idol in the Age of Art, among other books.
Ambitious Form describes the transformation of Italian sculpture during the neglected half century between the death of...
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Orsino Orsini, ilegítimo, deforme y con un solo ojo, cuya esposa fue seducida por el Papa Alejandro VI, construyó un 'parque de sexo y violencia' para así poder reflejar sobre este su odio (hacia el papa, su infiel esposa y un mundo que se rehúsa a aceptarlo). Mientras Haasse intenta interpretar el simbolismo del parque con sus veinte monstruosas estatuas, nos lleva con ella al laberinto de Cnossos en Creta, a los 'rituales y adoraciones al sol...
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Le récit en photos de l'installation d'une sculpture monumentale en plein cœur de Paris.
Phares est une œuvre monumentale de métal et de lumière imaginée par Milène Guermont. Ce « phare de phares », installé pendant 6 mois (automne 2015-hiver 2016) sur la place de la Concorde auprès du plus ancien monument de Paris, interagit avec le public et dialogue avec l'obélisque de Louxor, la tour Montparnasse... et la tour Eiffel. Cette œuvre...
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Robert Slifkin is associate professor of fine arts at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. He is the author of Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. He lives in New York City.
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...
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Both experienced and novice sculptors will appreciate this manual, written by an expert, that addresses every practical detail necessary for a complete knowledge of the craft. Topics include modelling a portrait bust; casting; modelling for terra-cotta, in relief, and for bronze; and modelling in clay. 36 plates. 82 line illustrations.
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The Necessity of Sculpture brings together a selection of articles on sculpture and sculptors from Eric Gibson's nearly four-decade career as an art critic. It covers subjects as diverse as Mesopotamian cylinder seals, war memorials, and the art of the American West; stylistic periods such as the Hellenistic in Ancient Greece and Kamakura in medieval Japan; Michelangelo, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and other historical figures; modernists...
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