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Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women
ISBN: 9780821418000 / Angielski / Twarda / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the Gilded Age, when most sculptors aspired to produce monu ments, Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872 1955) made significant contributions to small bronze sculpture and garden statuary designed for the embellishment of the home. Her work commanded admiration for her fluid and suggestive modeling, graceful lines, and sculptural form. In 1904 Bessie Potter Vonnoh won the gold medal for sculpture at the St. Louis World s Fair for bronzes of contemporary American women and children that delighted all who saw them.
Although Vonnoh s work is represented today in museums throughout the United States,... In the Gilded Age, when most sculptors aspired to produce monu ments, Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872 1955) made significant contributions to small bronze ...
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326,81 zł |
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Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women
ISBN: 9780821418017 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the Gilded Age, when most sculptors aspired to produce monu ments, Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872 1955) made significant contributions to small bronze sculpture and garden statuary designed for the embellishment of the home. Her work commanded admiration for her fluid and suggestive modeling, graceful lines, and sculptural form. In 1904 Bessie Potter Vonnoh won the gold medal for sculpture at the St. Louis World s Fair for bronzes of contemporary American women and children that delighted all who saw them.
Although Vonnoh s work is represented today in museums throughout the United... In the Gilded Age, when most sculptors aspired to produce monu ments, Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872 1955) made significant contributions to small bronze ...
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117,02 zł |
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Sheela-Na-Gigs of Ireland and Britain: The Divine Hag of the Christian Celts - An Illustrated Guide
ISBN: 9781856352949 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sheela-na-Gigs are carvings of female images depicted as naked and posing in a manner which accentuates the most powerfully evocative symbol of the vulva. They were erected on many churches of the medieval period and invariably in a prominent position such as over the main entrance door or a window.
Sheela-na-Gigs are carvings of female images depicted as naked and posing in a manner which accentuates the most powerfully evocative symbol of the vu...
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94,65 zł |
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Writing and Seeing Architecture
ISBN: 9780816645671 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The creative forms of literature and architecture appear to be distinct, one constructing a world on the page, the other producing the world in which we live. It is a conscious act to read literature, but the effects of architecture can pass by unnoticed. Yet, despite such obvious differences, writers and architects share a dynamic with their readers and visitors that is unpredictably similar.
Writing and Seeing Architecture unveils a candid conversation between Christian de Portzamparc, celebrated French architect, and influential theorist Philippe Sollers that... The creative forms of literature and architecture appear to be distinct, one constructing a world on the page, the other producing the world in whi... |
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234,13 zł |
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Writing and Seeing Architecture
ISBN: 9780816645688 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The creative forms of literature and architecture appear to be distinct, one constructing a world on the page, the other producing the world in which we live. It is a conscious act to read literature, but the effects of architecture can pass by unnoticed. Yet, despite such obvious differences, writers and architects share a dynamic with their readers and visitors that is unpredictably similar.
Writing and Seeing Architecture unveils a candid conversation between Christian de Portzamparc, celebrated French architect, and influential theorist Philippe Sollers that... The creative forms of literature and architecture appear to be distinct, one constructing a world on the page, the other producing the world in whi... |
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71,83 zł |
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Richard Artschwager: Public/Public
ISBN: 9780932900289 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A series of essays discussing the Elvehjem Museum of Art's outdoor sculpture, Generations, which opened to the public in 1991. This exhibit was designed as an educational vehicle which would promote an understanding and acceptance of the new sculpture and inspire further interest in public art.
A series of essays discussing the Elvehjem Museum of Art's outdoor sculpture, Generations, which opened to the public in 1991. This exhibit was design...
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77,99 zł |
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The Craftsman Revealed: Adriaen de Vries, Scupltor in Bronze
ISBN: 9780892369195 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 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 Roman Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. A master of composition and technique, De Vries was relatively unknown until the J. Paul Getty Museum's groundbreaking 1999 exhibition "Adriaen de Vries: Imperial Sculptor," which firmly established the artist's reputation and afforded a rare opportunity to study in depth a large group of bronzes.
This heavily illustrated volume presents the results of the technical study of twenty-five bronzes from the... The 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 Roman...
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256,73 zł |
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Land Art in the U.K.: A Complete Guide to Landscape, Environmental, Earthworks, Nature, Sculpture and Installation Art in the United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781861710956 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. LAND ART IN THE U.K.
A new book on land art in Great Britain. There are chapters on land artists such as Chris Drury, Hamish Fulton, David Nash, Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy. All of the major practitioners of land and environmental art in the U.K. are discussed. EXTRACT FROM THW CHAPTER ON ANDY GOLDSWORTHY One wonders whether Andy Goldsworthy would like to work in snow and ice more than in any other medium. In temperate snowlands one feels Goldsworthy is very much at home. Snow has all the right sorts of qualities Goldsworthy looks for in a material: it is malleable, it melts... LAND ART IN THE U.K.
A new book on land art in Great Britain. There are chapters on land artists such as Chris Drury, Hamish Fulton, David Nash, R... |
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225,93 zł |
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Andy Goldsworthy
ISBN: 9781861712417 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ANDY GOLDSWORTHY: POCKET GUIDE
A pocket-sized guide to the art of Andy Goldsworthy, Britian s foremost sculptor of the natural world. This book tells you everything you need to know about Andy Goldsworthy and his artworks. EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER 5 Andy Goldsworthy works with the natural world, and within nature. He uses natural materials in natural shapes and forms set in natural contexts. Goldsworthy takes his cue from nature: as Jan Dibbets put it in 1969: I realized that if you want to use nature, you have to derive the appropriate structure from nature too . Nature may be the... ANDY GOLDSWORTHY: POCKET GUIDE
A pocket-sized guide to the art of Andy Goldsworthy, Britian s foremost sculptor of the natural world. This book te... |
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77,43 zł |
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The Blind Spot: An Essay on the Relations Between Painting and Sculpture in the Modern Age
ISBN: 9780892368921 / Angielski / Twarda / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning in the seventeenth century, the greatest French writers and artists became embroiled in a debate that turned on the priority of painting or sculpture, touch or sight, color or design, ancients or moderns. Jacqueline Lichtenstein guides readers through these historic quarrels, decoding the key terms of the heated discussions and revealing how the players were influenced by the concurrent explosion of scientific discoveries concerning the senses of sight and touch. Drawing on the work of Rene Descartes, Roger de Piles, Denis Diderot, Charles Baudelaire, and emile Zola, among others,...
Beginning in the seventeenth century, the greatest French writers and artists became embroiled in a debate that turned on the priority of painting or ...
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154,04 zł |
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Mark Di Suvero: Dreambook
ISBN: 9780520258655 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This beautifully illustrated bookthe definitive volume on American sculptor Mark di Suverofeatures more than two hundred images of his most important works, interspersed with short texts by the artist and by other writers who have inspired his art-making practice, plus a contribution by Francois Barre. Humanist in approach and populist in sensibility, di Suvero's sculpture is accessible, inviting, and inclusive. Praised in particular for his monumental assemblages incorporating steel and wood, di Suvero emerged as a superstar in the 1960s. He was the first living artist to show his sculpture...
This beautifully illustrated bookthe definitive volume on American sculptor Mark di Suverofeatures more than two hundred images of his most important ...
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272,13 zł |
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Freeing the Angel from the Stone a Guide to Piccirilli Sculpture in New York City
ISBN: 9780970340320 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors present a guide book to the major sculpture of the Piccirilli brothers in New York City.
The authors present a guide book to the major sculpture of the Piccirilli brothers in New York City.
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51,65 zł |
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Anyone? a Sculptor!: How to Be a Sculptor in 30 Days or Less
ISBN: 9781434379146 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Probably most comprehensive book on creating almost anything using a combination of metal or plastic mesh and concrete, commonly known as Ferrocement process. The reader/user will spend a modicum of money to become a proficient amature sculptor.
Probably most comprehensive book on creating almost anything using a combination of metal or plastic mesh and concrete, commonly known as Ferrocement ...
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146,30 zł |
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Sculpture Woods: Studio Grounds of Ann Morris
ISBN: 9780295988276 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ann Morris has become a priestess of sorts, investing her mind and spirit into an ambitious oeuvre of figurative bronzes that speak with a singular and meditative voice. In a comprehensive and insightful essay, Ted Lindberg traces the arc of Morris's artistic development from her beginnings as a mother, philosophy student, and Pasadena printmaker, to her reclusion on the wind-swept bluffs of Lummi Island in north Puget Sound. There Morris has created an extraordinary bronze park that she calls Sculpture Woods, a 15-acre sanctuary of stately forest and highbank waterfront that is... Ann Morris has become a priestess of sorts, investing her mind and spirit into an ambitious oeuvre of figurative bronzes that speak with a singular... |
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141,40 zł |
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Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture: Monuments, Manliness, and the Work Ethic, 1880–1935
ISBN: 9780521461474 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on representations of work in American sculpture, from the decade in which the American Federation of Labor was formed, to the inauguration of the federal works project that subsidized American artists during the Great Depression. Restoring a group of important monuments to the history of labor, gender studies and American art history, this book analyzes key monuments and small-scale works in which labor was often constituted as "manly" and where the work ethic mediated both production and reception.
This book focuses on representations of work in American sculpture, from the decade in which the American Federation of Labor was formed, to the inaug...
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556,21 zł |
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The Pleasures of Antiquity : British Collections of Greece of Rome
ISBN: 9780300098549 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By the nineteenth century, connoisseurs from the British Isles had assembled the richest collections of classical antiquities outside Rome. The galleries they created to house the spectacular Greek and Roman statues, ornaments, vases, bronzes, and gems were in many instances designed to be as magnificent as the artworks themselves. This delightful book examines how the great British antiquities collections were put together and displayed, from Lord Arundel's collection of marbles in the seventeenth century to the Grand Tour acquisitions of the eighteenth century and the greatest art...
By the nineteenth century, connoisseurs from the British Isles had assembled the richest collections of classical antiquities outside Rome. The galler...
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205,38 zł |
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Gilbert Bayes: Sculptor 1872-1953
ISBN: 9780903685641 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,66 zł |
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Sculpture
ISBN: 9780812282580 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Philip Rawson, a distinguished academic and author, practiced as a sculptor all of his life. Sculpture, his final book, completes the trilogy begun with his classic works, Drawing and Ceramics. As in those earlier volumes, Rawson provides a clear, factual description of the underlying principles and structural techniques of the art. Although Rawson discusses sculptures from many places and periods--including Africa, Asia, Greece, Medieval and Renaissance Europe, and twentieth-century Europe and America--Sculpture is not a history as such. Rather, it is an... Philip Rawson, a distinguished academic and author, practiced as a sculptor all of his life. Sculpture, his final book, completes the trilog... |
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385,34 zł |
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Il Marmo Spirante: Sculpture and Experience in Seventeenth-Century Rome
ISBN: 9783050059488 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Bildhauer des romischen Barock, darunter Meister wie Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Alessandro Algardi und Giuliano Finelli, erreichten eine beispiellose Lebendigkeit ihrer Werke. Dem augenscheinlichen Leben widerspricht jedoch beharrlich die harte Materialitat dieser Skulpturen. Weiches, bewegtes Fleisch, dramatische Bewegungen und flatternde Stoffe sind in hartem, leblosem Marmor gefangen. So fordert die Skulptur den Betrachter heraus und sorgt fur Verwirrung oder auch Enttauschung. Anhand zeitgenossischer Poesie und anderer Quellen, welche die Interaktion zwischen Betrachter und Skulptur...
Die Bildhauer des romischen Barock, darunter Meister wie Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Alessandro Algardi und Giuliano Finelli, erreichten eine beispiellose L...
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425,72 zł |
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The Parthenon Sculptures in the British Museum
ISBN: 9780714122618 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A photographic tour of one of the most famous of the surviving sculptures from ancient Greece in the British Museum - the Parthenon sculptures. This book showcases a series of photographs of the different sculptural elements: the pediments, metopes and Ion
A photographic tour of one of the most famous of the surviving sculptures from ancient Greece in the British Museum - the Parthenon sculptures. This b...
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126,09 zł |