Sculpture

Author of statues in the major churches of Padua and Venice, Giammaria Mosca was among the leading sculptors in northern Italy during the second an...

Illustrated from the Ashmolean's collection of contemporary sculpture, this book provides a context in terms of the Ashmolean's world-famous collec...

Birdstones, small prehistoric stone sculptures shaped by Native Americans, are known for their simplicity and beauty. Mythical objects of the first...

In the mid-eighteenth century, English gentlemen filled their houses with copies and casts of classical statuary while the following generation pre...

Sculpture parks and gardens, whether woodland sanctuaries or urban retreats, sprawling sites or intimate oases, offer sculpture lovers and artists ...

Much of the sculpture created in ancient Greece that has survived is funerary in nature. These markers commemorating the dead were traditionally pl...

This volume brings together the work of leading scholars on two of the most important, yet puzzling, extant ensembles of Hellenistic Age sculpture:...

The meaning of architectural sculpture is essential to our understanding of ancient Greek culture. The embellishment of buildings was common for th...

This comprehensive sourcebook is destined to become a lasting and definitive resource on the art and aesthetic philosophy of the American artist Da...

This comprehensive sourcebook is destined to become a lasting and definitive resource on the art and aesthetic philosophy of the American artist Da...

A fascinating exploration of the visual culture of mortality in Renaissance Europe We often imagine the Renaissance as an age of exceptional human ...

Pol Bury (1922-2005) was a painter, sculptor, jewelry designer, writer, and graphic artist, but is perhaps best known to the general public for his...

A generously illustrated look at the intricate narrative threads of three of the artist’s earliest works, and their continued resonance today Celeb...

The Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum are unrivalled examples of classical Greek art that have inspired sculptors, artists, poets and writ...

Winner - African Studies Association's 2009 Melville J. Herskovits Award An intellectual biography of a modern African artist and his immense cont...

The first major book to consider the life and work of Robert Arneson, "A Troublesome Subject" tells the fascinating story of how a high school art ...

Digital technologies have profoundly impacted the arts and expanded the field of sculpture since the 1950s. Art history, however, continues to pay ...

This book provides original grounds for integrating the bodily, somatic senses into our understanding of how we make and engage with visual art. Ro...

The work of Slovak sculptor Maria Bartuszova (1936-96) was first presented to international audiences in Kassel in 2007. Although her art has appea...

This is a comprehensive and superbly illustrated account of the Getty Museum's research into outdoor sculpture conservation. When the J. Paul Getty...

Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904) was an undisputed success during his life. Crowds flocked to see his vibrant compositions and thanks to mass marketing...

Dutch sculptor Adriaen de Vries (1556-1626) spent much of his life working for the most discerning royal courts of the age, including that of Holy ...

This is a unique volume that explores the ways in which the aesthetics of public art were affected by the social, political, and cultural changes o...

Beginning in the seventeenth century, many of Europe's greatest writers and artists became embroiled in a debate that centered on the priority of p...

This beautifully illustrated book - the definitive volume on American sculptor Mark di Suvero - features more than two hundred images of his most i...

Companion to Faces in Stone, this is a gift-sized and attractively priced book for architecture buffs. It features more than one hundred imaginativ...

Alberto Giacometti, one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, was also one of the most enigmatic. In this major new interpretatio...

Themes of the American West have been enduringly popular, and The American West in Bronze features sixty-five iconic bronzes that display a range o...

A new examination of a fascinating group of paintings from a pioneering mid-century artist In 1960 Eva Hesse (1936–1970) created an unusual group o...

In this wide-ranging study, Richard Neer offers a new way to understand the epoch-making sculpture of classical Greece. Working at the intersection...

In the fifth century BCE, an artistic revolution occurred in Greece, as sculptors developed new ways of representing bodies, movement, and space. T...

Stretching lengths of yarn across interior spaces, American artist Fred Sandback (1943 2003) created expansive works that underscore the physical p...

Medieval polychrome wood sculptures are highly complex objects, bearers of histories that begin with their original carving and adornment and conti...

A study of two exhibitions that took place five years apart in the same building in Brussels city-centreFull House explores two exhibitions that to...

Since the 1990s, the British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE (*1962, London) has developed opulently executed sculptures and installations, col...

A groundbreaking account of ancient Greek funerary sculpture and its emotional effects   In this lyrically written and beautifully illustrated stud...