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Sculpture (Mega Squares) by Grange Books Publisher Comments Scupture is not considered an ornament for architecture anymore but is one of the most important elements in the work of the architect or the urban planner and stands out as an object of aestheticism. This book is devoted to sculptures from around the... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Gone Home: Southern Folk Gravestone Art by Jack Solomon Publisher Comments Four decades ago, folklorists Jack and Olivia Solomon began documenting Southern cemeteries, recording the names, lives and epitaphs of thousands of the deceased. The volume they now share with us is not a Book of the Dead, but a Book of Life. In these... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Concise History of Modern Sculpture (World of Art) by Herbert Read Publisher Comments Sir Herbert Read traces the development of modern sculpture from Rodin to the present day and brings order into the apparently chaotic proliferation of styles and techniques during this period.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stone: A Legacy and Inspiration for Art by Jake Harvey Synopsis Stone: A Legacy and Inspiration for Art is a beautiful, visually stimulating book, exploring the delights of contemporary stone sculpture and stone carving. Stone is a major resource and inspiration for artists, craft-workers, and scholars in many areas,... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Hardcover
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Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed by Paula Murphy Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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Yalos by Luca Barbero Synopsis Glass is so malleable that it seemingly eludes the formal principles obeyed by most solid materials; it can be used to create a delicate windowpane or formed into a massive unbreakable block, translucent or opaque, jagged or smooth. The production of... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The colour of sculpture, 1840-1910 by Andreas Bluhm Publisher Comments Sculpture is commonly associated with the three dimensions of volume, while color is claimed as the exclusive means of expression for painters. However, polychromy was widely used in sculpture from the Middle Ages to the Baroque and beginning in 1814... (read more) Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Passages in Modern Sculptures by Rosalind E Krauss Review "Distinguished art historian and critic Rosalind Krauss analyzes with exceptional clarity and insight the major works that have led 20th century sculpture from the traditional and figurative to the revolutionary conceptual art of the 1970s—an art... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Italian Baroque Sculpture (World of Art) by Bruce Boucher Publisher Comments The sculptural flowering of the Italian Baroque - the sensuous beauty of Bernini's Apollo and Daphne; the spectacular papal tombs in St. Peter's; dramatic altarpieces such as the mystical Ecstasy of St. Teresa; and Rome's dazzling fountains - boldly... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Etched in Stone: Enduring Words from Our Nation's Monuments by Ryan Coonerty Publisher Comments This poignant, first-of-its-kind book celebrates words that define America's storied past and symbolize the drive of its people—from the boardrooms of Manhattan to the farm fields of Iowa. Author Ryan Coonerty highlights profound phrases inscribed... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Attalos, Athens and the Akropolis: The Pergamene 'Little Barbarians' and Their Roman and Renaissance Legacy by Andrew Stewart Publisher Comments This volume examines the 'little barbarians', ten highly expressive Roman marble figures of Giants, Amazons, Persians, and Gauls that were found in Rome in 1514 and are now recognized as copies of the Small (or Lesser) Attalid Dedication on the Athenian... (read more) List Price $142.50 Your price: $40.00 Used - Hardcover
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Land Art: A Complete Guide to Landscape, Environmental, Earthworks, Nature, Sculpture and Installation Art by William Malpas Publisher Comments LAND ART A fully illustrated and complete guide to land and environmental art. For the land artist, the whole planet is an artist's studio. The land artist ranges over the whole globe. A desert, a beach, a field, a forest becomes a studio, a place of... (read more) List Price $45.75 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Expressive Edge by Margaret Sheffield Publisher Comments Analyzing the history of sculpture from an unusual angle, Margaret Sheffield tackles the character and function of edge in sculptural line, from classical Greece to the present. She identifies three kinds of sculptural edge: the containing edge (as found... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $24.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sculpture by Georges Duby Publisher Comments Sculpture - From Antiquity to the Present Day "Text and illustrations form a remarkable whole, on a theme which has never been subjected to such a precise synthetic study." -Beaux Arts Magazine, Paris Ranging from ancient to contemporary... (read more) Your price: $30.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Louisiana's Sculpture Park by Helle Crenzien Publisher Comments This guide to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's acclaimed sculpture park features work by Max Ernst, Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Jean Miro, Jean Dubuffet and many others. A handy map is included.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $19.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sculptural Sphere by Rainald Schumacher Publisher Comments The multi-dimensionality of our daily experiences is reduced by the television and internet media to the surface of a flat screen. Thus reality loses more and more of its spatial qualities, even as theoretical physicists develop increasingly... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Sculpture Since 1945 (Oxford History of Art) by Andrew Causey Publisher Comments Since 1945 the modern revolution in sculpture has gathered pace, and even the term sculpture has ceased to be the fixed category it once was. In Sculpture Since 1945, Andrew Causey provides a ground-breaking account of the development of post-War... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Big Pig Gig: Celebrating Pigs in the City by Rick Pender Publisher Comments Cincinnati was transformed to Cin-sow-nati in the summer of 2000. The Big Pig Gig, a public art initiative, brought local artists, businesses, community and arts organizations, schools and individuals together to celebrate Cincinnati's porkopolis past... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Language of Sculpture by William Tucker Publisher Comments In this illuminating survey, one of Brittan's ablest and most articulate sculptors gives an artist's view of what really happened when, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, sculpture re-emerged from centries of semi-eclipse.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Encyclopedia Anatomica by Museo La Specola Florence Publisher Comments Gathering together photographs of stunningly realistic wax anatomies from Florence's Museo La Specola, Encyclopedia Anatomica is a fascinating journey through the human body. Each chapter from the original volume is reduced here, though the most... (read more) Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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