Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Sculpture & Installation

The 105 seals and seal impressions in this catalog greatly expand the corpus of glyptic materials from northwestern Iran. The importance of this assemblage is enhanced by its discovery in a controlled stratified context. The distribution of the material in different buildings allows a unique look at the functioning of the glyptic system. In addition to detailed catalog entries, the author's insights and wide knowledge of iconography enrich the text. There are drawings and photographs for each entry.

University Museum Monograph, 84

This book documents a mammoth two-part installation and related drawings, videos, and sculpture by Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo. Their work After transformed the Boise Art Museum's Sculpture Court and Garden into a construction / deconstruction zone. The terrain of the indoor work consisted of a gravel landscape and, floating above it, several fragments of a modern living room. Outside, a flourescent-lit billboard advertising the promise of modern living perched atop a pile of construction debris.

Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo are professional architects and artists who utilize...

Paula Murphy, the leading expert on Irish sculpture, offers an extensive survey of the history of sculpture in Ireland in the nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the large public works produced during the Victorian period. The works of such major figures as Patrick MacDowell, John Henry Foley, Thomas Kirk, and Thomas Farrell are discussed --as well as works by a host of lesser-known sculptors, including John Edward Carew, Christopher Moore, James Cahill, and Joseph Robinson Kirk. Lavishly illustrated, the book covers the work of many Irish sculptors who practiced abroad,...

This volume originates from an international conference (Oxford University, 2007). Texts address plaster casts and related themes from antiquity to the present day, and from Egypt to America, Mexico and New Zealand. They are of interest to classical archaeologists, art historians, the history of collecting, curators, conservators, collectors and artists. Articles explore the functions, status and reception of plaster casts in artists' workshops and in private and public collections, as well as hands-on issues, such as the making, trading, display and conservation of plaster casts....