Sculpture

Explore machine work as a fine craft through the lens of Chris Bathgates pioneering sculpture techniques.   By all rights, machining should ha...

This book focuses on the techniques and materials of polychromy used in early modern Europe and the Americas from 1200 to 1800.Taking a trans-cultu...

Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (14751564) had already sculpted Pietà and David, two of the most famous sculptures in...

In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (19281962) declared that a new world calls for a new man. With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold ar...

This study reveals the broad material, devotional, and cultural implications of sculpture in Renaissance Venice. Examining a wide range of sourcest...

Drawing on recent research by established and emerging scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, this volume reconsiders the art and arch...

The first book to devote serious attention to questions of scale in contemporary sculpture, this study considers the phenomenon within the interlin...

Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christ produced by Gregorio Fernández, author Ilenia Colón Mendoza investigates how and why the ...

This book explores the issue of ecclesiastical authority in Romanesque sculpture on the portals and other sculpted gateways of churches in the nort...

This book tells the story of the Del Riccio family in Florence in the early modern period, investigating the cultural mediations fostered by the fa...

Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible. The art object is fundamental. Indeed, the diffe...

Award-winning chocolate artist Patrick Roger (Meilleur Ouvrier de France chocolatier 2000) has pursued a parallel body of longer-lasting work, crea...

Anna Bogouchevskaia sees her work in sculpture as a geopolitical engagement with concerns at the intersection of figuration and abstraction. This i...

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...

Renowned Japanese-Swiss artist Leiko Ikemuras multifaceted oeuvre comprises paintings, watercolours, drawings, as well as terra-cotta and bronze sc...

Born in Coolidge, Texas, Samuel Marshall Gore was the sixth of ten children born to a Baptist preacher and a mother described as an angel. From ear...

umformung is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of the Wuppertal-based sculptor Jaana Caspary (b. 1988), whose abstract, monochrome scul...

 A book highlighting the work of pioneering Black printmaker, sculptor, and activist Elizabeth Catlett.    Accomplished printmaker and sculptor, av...