Carvings: Artworks

The Bari people, who settled on the banks of the White Nile, remained closed off from the outside world until the dawn of the 19th century. The ear...

Few decorative crafts can claim to be more ancient than stone carving, with the earliest carved objects being dated well into prehistory. The great...

When Zulu women potters innovate or move to a more urban setting, they are asked why they have abandoned tradition. Yet when they continue to follo...

In 1966 Mark Gambier-Parry bequeathed to the Courtauld the art collection formed by his grandfather Thomas Gambier Parry (who died in 1888). Since ...

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist for the Visual Arts Award, 2017. The carved wooden Torah arks found in eastern Europe from the seventeenth to...

A fascinating collection of the wooden ritual objects called 'spirit boards' made in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea. They represent spirits that pro...

In the long history of documenting the material culture of the archaeological record, meaning and actions of makers and users of these items is oft...

How does materiality affect artistic processes of object creation and reception? This volume examining carved boxes from the High and Late medieval...

Sugar Skulls will immerse you in the celebrations surrounding Día de Muertos, mixing fun facts and crafts, plus scratch-art pages of beautiful scen...

A comprehensive survey of the intriguing misericord carvings, setting them in their religious context and looking at their different themes and mot...

This open access volume explores the impact of globalization on the contemporary study of deep-time art. The volume explores how early rock art res...

The highly acclaimed memoir of a renowned artisan with a new introduction by Jenny Uglow, The Lost Carving reveals the inspirational secrets of woo...

This study of the wooden Serpent figures/headdresses of the Baga people of Guinea is a collaboration by the author, as an art historian, with many ...

Kulango Figurines is designed to introduce various miniature works created by the Kulango in northeastern Côte d'Ivoire, who were formerly vassals ...

The symbol stones of the Picts remain one of Scotland''s greatest archaeological enigmas. First appearing on record in the third century AD, the ki...