Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Sculpture & Installation

Die Begegnung der beiden schwangeren Frauen Maria und Elisabet, die Heimsuchung, war ein beliebtes Motiv in der mittelalterlichen Skulptur. Katja Triebe dokumentiert erstmals den umfangreichen Bestand. Exemplarische Einzelanalysen, u.a. von Hauptwerken der Kunstgeschichte wie die Heimsuchungen des Bamberger Doms und aus Kloster St. Katharinental, legen Neuinterpretationen von vieldiskutierten Werken vor. Die Studie zeigt, wie die Skulpturen ihr Publikum intellektuell, körperlich und emotional einbinden, und deckt die vielschichtigen allegorischen Bedeutungen der Werke auf. Die...

Richard Serra is considered by many to be the most important sculptor of the postwar period. The essays in this volume cover the complete span of Serra's work to date -- from his first experiments with materials and processes through his early films and site works to his current series of "torqued ellipses." There is a special emphasis on those moments when Serra extended aesthetic convention and/or challenged political authority, as in the famous struggle with the General Services Administration over the site-specific piece Tilted Arc.October Files October Files is a new series of...

Kiln-forming as a technique to shape glass was in use for centuries before the Romans developed glassblowing, which has since become the more widely used method. Today, modern glass artists are rediscovering the versatility of kiln forming and are using the technique to produce works of great beauty and strength. In this book, Keith Cummings reviews the history of kiln forming and discusses pertinent materials and methods, such as slumping and fusing. The work of an international group of artists is used to illustrate the text.

Nineteenth-century neoclassical sculpture was a highly politicized international movement. Based in Rome, many expatriate American sculptors created works that represented black female subjects in compelling and problematic ways. Rejecting pigment as dangerous and sensual, adherence to white marble abandoned the racialization of the black body by skin color.

In The Color of Stone, Charmaine A. Nelson brilliantly analyzes a key, but often neglected, aspect of neoclassical sculpture--color. Considering three major works--Hiram Powers's Greek Slave, William Wetmore...