Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum: Volume 1, Archaic Sculpture
ISBN: 9781107418011 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1912, this book contains the first half of the catalogue of the sculptures held in the collection of the Acropolis Museum in Athens. In this volume, Dickins lists the museum's assortment of archaic sculptures, thought to have been made before the razing of the Acropolis in 480 BC. The detailed text is illustrated with drawings of many of the sculptures listed, including the famous Peplos Kore, Kore 675 and the 'Mourning Athena' relief. This well-presented and thoroughly researched book will be of value to anyone with an interest in ancient Greek art, particularly art...
Originally published in 1912, this book contains the first half of the catalogue of the sculptures held in the collection of the Acropolis Museum in A...
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The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture
ISBN: 9780199921829 / Angielski / Twarda / 728 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study of Roman sculpture has been an essential part of the disciplines of Art History and Classics since the eighteenth century. Famous works like the Laocoon, the Arch of Titus, and the colossal portrait of Constantine are familiar to millions. Again and again, scholars have returned to sculpture to answer questions about Roman art, society, and history. Indeed, the field of Roman sculptural studies encompasses not only the full chronological range of the Roman world but also its expansive geography, and a variety of artistic media, formats, sizes, and functions. Exciting new theories,...
The study of Roman sculpture has been an essential part of the disciplines of Art History and Classics since the eighteenth century. Famous works like...
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African Art in the Barnes Foundation: The Triumph of l'Art Negre and the Harlem Renaissance
ISBN: 9780847845217 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first publication of the Barnes Foundation s important and extensive African art collection. The Barnes Foundation is renowned for its astonishing collection of Postimpressionist and early Modern art assembled by Albert C. Barnes, a Philadelphia pharmaceutical entrepreneur. Less known is the pioneering collection of African sculpture that Barnes acquired between 1922 and 1924, mainly from Paul Guillaume, the Paris-based dealer. The Barnes Foundation was one of the first permanent installations in the United States to present objects from Africa as fine art. Indeed, the African collection...
The first publication of the Barnes Foundation s important and extensive African art collection. The Barnes Foundation is renowned for its astonishing...
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Paul McCarthy
ISBN: 9780714868936 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Definitive monograph on America's most challenging and influential artist Los-Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b.1945) creates Disneyesque installations, sculptures of animal/vegetable/human hybrids and slapstick performances in a purge of a national subconscious. The psycho-sexual desires and anxieties induced by the media and the built environment of contemporary America emerge in his collisions of plastic prosthetic limbs and condiments that stand in for bodily fluids. These works have been variously deployed: through live actions, often documented on video, and more recently in... Definitive monograph on America's most challenging and influential artist Los-Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b.1945) creates Disneyesque ins... |
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Art of Sculpture Welding: From Concept to Creation
ISBN: 9780831135164 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This extraordinary seven-part book covers the processes of creating 13 projects -- from pencils to vases to bicycles -- for all personalities, skill levels and interests. It is specifically designed for students, beginning welders, hobbyists, and do-it-yourselfers. Many of the plans have been built multiple times by students and others. The plans are easy to read and the projects are meant to motivate the reader to want to learn the welding and fabrication processes. All plans include a list of materials, dimensions, special notes as needed., plus any commentaries about special equipment that...
This extraordinary seven-part book covers the processes of creating 13 projects -- from pencils to vases to bicycles -- for all personalities, skill l...
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The Xanthian Marbles: Their Acquisition, and Transmission to England
ISBN: 9781108080675 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The traveller and archaeologist Sir Charles Fellows (1799 1860) made several trips through Asia Minor. His careful observations of ancient cities that were at that time unknown to Europeans captured the attention of readers of his published journals and fuelled the British Museum's desire to acquire antiquities from the region. This brief work, first published in 1843, seeks to explain and justify how Fellows shipped dozens of cases of sculptures and architectural remains to Malta from Xanthos, an important city in ancient Lycia. It includes correspondence relating to the practicalities of...
The traveller and archaeologist Sir Charles Fellows (1799 1860) made several trips through Asia Minor. His careful observations of ancient cities that...
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Statues and Cities: Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World
ISBN: 9780198738930 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why say thank you with a portrait statue? This book combines two different and quite specialized fields, archaeology and epigraphy, to explore the phenomenon of portraits in ancient art within the historical and anthropological context of city-states honouring worthy individuals through erecting statues, and the development of families imitating this practice.
This transaction tells us a lot about the history of these cities and how ancient art worked as a construction of relations during the Hellenistic period (c. 350 BC-c. AD 1), which is marked by a political culture... Why say thank you with a portrait statue? This book combines two different and quite specialized fields, archaeology and epigraphy, to explore the phe...
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254,95 zł |
Figury nasłonecznione
ISBN: 9788360713150 / Polski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Barbara Zbrożyna. Figury nasłonecznione, pod redakcją Anny Marii Leśniewskiej, projekt graficzny Roman Tratsiuk i Ludwika Gnyp, Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warszawa 2008.
Barabra Zbrożyna to rzeźbiarka i rysowniczka, której niezwykle ekspresyjne przedstawienia z brązu prezentowane były w akompaniamencie metafizycznej muzyki Krzysztof Knittla. W katalogu znajdują się teksty Anny Marii Leśniewskiej, Jacka Waltosia oraz Krzysztofa Knittla. Zawiera również notę biograficzną, wypis wystaw oraz fragmenty poezji napisanej przez artystkę.? Barbara Zbrożyna. Figury nasłonecznione, pod redakcją Anny Marii Leśniewskiej, projekt graficzny Roman Tratsiuk i Ludwika Gnyp, Zachęta Narodowa ...
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Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins
ISBN: 9780300216844 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How an artist draws on fossil discoveries and forensic techniques to create transfixing reconstructions of long-lost human ancestors
What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally renowned paleoartist John Gurche describes the extraordinary process by which he creates forensically accurate and hauntingly realistic representations of our ancient human ancestors. Inspired by a lifelong fascination with all things prehistoric, and gifted with a unique artistic vision, Gurche has... How an artist draws on fossil discoveries and forensic techniques to create transfixing reconstructions of long-lost human ancestors |
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Skandinavische Bildende Kunst Von 1950 Bis Zur Gegenwart
ISBN: 9783631659618 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In diesem Buch prasentieren elf Autoren die Geschehnisse auf dem Gebiet der bildenden Kunst in den letzten siebzig Jahren in den skandinavischen Landern Schweden, Norwegen, Danemark, Finnland und Island mittels Uberblicksdarstellungen und unter verschiedenen Aspekten. Dabei zeigen sich viele Gemeinsamkeiten, aber auch immer wieder Abweichungen der Lander untereinander. Ebenso werden die unumstrittene Verbundenheit und der Austausch mit der Kunst einiger Lander Kontinentaleuropas und den USA erlautert."
In diesem Buch prasentieren elf Autoren die Geschehnisse auf dem Gebiet der bildenden Kunst in den letzten siebzig Jahren in den skandinavischen Lande...
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Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions
ISBN: 9780300184549 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fascinating glimpse into the creative process of a major contemporary sculptor, featuring many previously unseen works on paper
American sculptor Martin Puryear (b. 1941) creates work that combines the clean elegance of minimalism and the simplicity of traditional materials. His stunning sculptures explore themes of identity, ethnicity, and history, and are rich with social and cultural commentary. Puryear, who is known for abstract, large-scale pieces in wood, stone, and bronze, has captured the attention of the art world for the past 30 years. Despite the apparent... A fascinating glimpse into the creative process of a major contemporary sculptor, featuring many previously unseen works on paper
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Rodin
ISBN: 9783836555043 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Moulding life: Marble and clay become vivid human emotions In a career that bridged the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Auguste Rodin(1840 1917) was at once deeply inspired by artistic heritage and a rebel against its idealized forms. With a commitment to naturalism, he sought to render not only the realities of human flesh but all therawness of human feeling and experience, exploring the physical postures and expressions of contemplation, joy, love, lust, loss, shame, anguish, or turmoil.Rodin's works are distinguished by thisfidelity to nature and physicality. He rendered his subjects...
Moulding life: Marble and clay become vivid human emotions In a career that bridged the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Auguste Rodin(1840 1917) w...
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Unspoken Spaces
ISBN: 9780500343135 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unspoken Spaces is the first major book on Olafur Eliasson's architectural projects and works in public spaces around the globe. The book explores, often in Eliasson's own words, the artist's driving interest in finding visionary shapes to represent abstract ideas, and presents an extraordinary visual journey through spheres, tunnels, towers, walkways and archways, as well as pavilions and larger buildings realized by Eliasson and his studio since the late 1990s. Eight essays by writers across a variety of fields--from geologists and historians of art and science to architects,...
Unspoken Spaces is the first major book on Olafur Eliasson's architectural projects and works in public spaces around the globe. The book exp...
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America in the Age of the Titans: The Progressive Era and World War I
ISBN: 9780814714102 / Angielski / Twarda / 622 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Detailing the events of the Progressive Era and World War I (1901-20), America in the Age of the Titans is the only interdisciplinary history covering this period currently available. The book contains the results of research into primary sources an drecent scholarship with an emphases on leading personalities and anecdotes about them. Sean Dennis Cashman's sequesl to America in the Gilded Age gives special attention to industry and inventions, and social and cultural history. He covers developments in science, technology, and industry; the Progressive movement and the... Detailing the events of the Progressive Era and World War I (1901-20), America in the Age of the Titans is the only interdisciplinary hist... |
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Studio Job: Monkey Business
ISBN: 9780847848300 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blurring the lines between industrial design and art installation, Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel of Studio Job have vaulted into the top ranks of contemporary design. Studio Job redefines the applied arts for the contemporary age. Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel s collaboration creates highly expressive work where the physical potential of the materials they use often bronze or laser-cut marquetry is pushed to the limit, with an approach more in keeping with that of traditional guilds than industrial design. "Studio Job: Monkey Business" includes furnishings, sculptures, exhibitions, commissioned...
Blurring the lines between industrial design and art installation, Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel of Studio Job have vaulted into the top ranks of conte...
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Rome, Travel and the Sculpture Capital, C.1770-1825
ISBN: 9781472420350 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world that shaped Europe's first national sculptor-celebrities, from Schadow to David d'Angers, from Flaxman to Gibson, from Canova to Thorvaldsen, was the city of Rome. Until around 1800, the Holy See effectively served as Europe's cultural capital, and Roman sculptors found themselves at the intersection of the Italian marble trade, Grand Tour expenditure, the cult of the classical male nude, and the Enlightenment republic of letters. Two sets of visitors to Rome, the David circle and the British traveler, have tended to dominate Rome's image as an open artistic hub, while the lively... The world that shaped Europe's first national sculptor-celebrities, from Schadow to David d'Angers, from Flaxman to Gibson, from Canova to Thorvald... |
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Stephan Balkenhol
ISBN: 9782906571655 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Last Statues of Antiquity
ISBN: 9780198753322 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spanning centuries and the vastness of the Roman Empire, The Last Statues of Antiquity is the first comprehensive survey of Roman honorific statues in the public realm in Late Antiquity. Drawn from a major research project and corresponding online database that collates all the available evidence for the "statue habit" across the Empire from the late third century AD onwards, the volume examines where, how, and why statues were used, and why these important features of urban life began to decline in number before eventually disappearing around AD 600. Adopting a detailed comparative approach,...
Spanning centuries and the vastness of the Roman Empire, The Last Statues of Antiquity is the first comprehensive survey of Roman honorific statues in...
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Bildhauersymposien: Entstehung - Entwicklung - Wandlung: Dargestellt an Ausgewaehlten Beispielen Und Ergaenzt Durch Gespraeche Mit Beteiligten
ISBN: 9783631552735 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Kunstlersymposien- sind ein weit verbreitetes Phanomen des internationalen Kulturlebens. Erstmals traf sich 1959 eine kleine Gruppe von Bildhauern zum Symposion Europaischer Bildhauer in einem osterreichischen Steinbruch. Diese Untersuchung arbeitet Faktoren heraus, die zur Entstehung, Konkretisierung und zu Veranderungen der Idee -Bildhauersymposion- fuhrten. Abschliessend wird eine Charakterisierung dieses vielgestaltigen Phanomens in funf Schritten vorgenommen. Auszuge aus den Gesprachen, die die Autorin mit Beteiligten gefuhrt hat, erganzen die Rekonstruktion und zeigen...
-Kunstlersymposien- sind ein weit verbreitetes Phanomen des internationalen Kulturlebens. Erstmals traf sich 1959 eine kleine Gruppe von Bildhauern zu...
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Der populäre Künstler; Das Beispiel Bernhard Luginbühl
ISBN: 9783039109791 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der Berner Kunstler Bernhard Luginbuhl ist nicht nur der Produzent seiner Kunstwerke, sondern auch deren Verkaufer. Als Kurator seiner Ausstellungen erkennt Luginbuhl die Bedeutung der Eventkultur, lange bevor der Begriff existiert. Der hehre Ernst der Kunst wird in seinen Werken zugunsten der Freude an der Unterhaltung des Publikums durchbrochen: Fur die Kinder fertigt er Spielplastiken mit Rutschbahnen, fur die Erwachsenen lasst er mit den rollenden und larmenden Kugeln der kinetischen Plastiken Jahrmarktstimmung aufkommen, und mit den knisternden Verbrennungsaktionen zieht er alle in Bann....
Der Berner Kunstler Bernhard Luginbuhl ist nicht nur der Produzent seiner Kunstwerke, sondern auch deren Verkaufer. Als Kurator seiner Ausstellungen e...
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639,29 zł |