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Sculpture, Principles and Practice by Louis Slobodkin Publisher Comments This authoritative introduction to sculpture covers forms of sculpture, how to construct an armature, build a model stand, carving, much more. Invaluable for beginners but skilled sculptors will find its broad scope useful. "Instruction and appreciation... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Dale Chihuly: 365 Days by Dale Chihuly Publisher Comments Dale Chihuly, the hugely popular artist who works in glass, celebrates his 70th birthday in 2011. Tacoma Art Museum, in his hometown, owns more than 150 examples of his work and is mounting an exhibition in his honor. Both this book and the exhibition... (read more) Your price: $32.50 New - Hardcover
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Chihuly 2ND Edition Rev & Expanded by Donald Kuspit Publisher Comments The most comprehensive and handsome illustrated book on the world's foremost glass artist.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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Stone Andy Goldsworthy by Andy Goldsworthy Publisher Comments Here is an arresting look at art that uses slate, limestone, river boulders, sand, mud and clay--all created by young Scottish artist Goldsworthy. Stone reflects the artist's increasingly strong conviction that the places in which he works are as... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - Hardcover
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Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew Into Space from His Apartment by Boris Groys Publisher Comments The fictitious hero of this 1984 installation is a lonely dreamer who develops an impossible project: to fly alone in cosmic space. But this dream is also an individual appropriation of a collective Soviet project and the official Soviet propaganda... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Races of Mankind: The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman by Marianne Kinkel Publisher Comments In 1930, Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History commissioned sculptor Malvina Hoffman to produce three-dimensional models of racial types for an anthropology display called the Races of Mankind. In this exceptional study, Marianne Kinkel measures the... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Hardcover
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Thayer Tolles Publisher Comments This book recounts the engaging story of a French-Irish immigrant who became the greatest American sculptor of his day. During his lifetime Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907) both contributed to exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum and served as an advisor... (read more) Your price: $23.75 New - Trade Paper
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The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600-1700 by Xavier Bray Publisher Comments In 16th- and 17th-century Spain, sculptors and painters combined their skills to depict, with astonishing realism, the great religious themes. Wooden sculptures of the saints, the Immaculate Conception, or the Passion of Christ were painstakingly carved,... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $60.50 New - Hardcover
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Chihuly Seaforms by Dale Chihuly Publisher Comments In "Chihuly: Seaforms," Artforum art critic Seeman Robinson discusses Chihuly's most exquisite and ethereal series, invoking the spontaneous automatic drawings of the Surrealists, the water lilies of Claude Monet, the action painting of Jackson Pollock... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Carl Warner's Food Landscapes by Carl Warner Publisher Comments Includes bonus postcards! Its not just eye candyits a full meal! Welcome to visionary photographer Carl Warners curious world, where Parmesan peaks tower over a desert of paprika and spiky chicory, while a tomato-skin scorpion perches on a potato. Every... (read more) Your price: $22.50 New - Hardcover
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Modelling and Sculpting Animals by Edouard Lanteri Publisher Comments Thorough step-by-step guide discusses anatomy of horse, lion, and bull; methods of construction; tools, materials, etc. Also comprehensive exposition of casting in plaster. 63 full-page photographic plates. 138 drawings and diagrams.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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) Your price: $34.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Nancy Book by Joe Brainard Publisher Comments Art. LGBT Studies. From 1963 through 1978, Joe Brainard created more than one hundred works of art that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into an astonishing variety of spaces, all electrified by the incongruity of her... (read more) List Price $39.50 Your price: $27.00 Used - Hardcover
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Textile Perspectives in Mixed-media Sculpture by Jac Scott Publisher Comments Celebrates the sculpture created by artists who operate on the interface of mixed-media sculpture and textile art. 146 colour illus.... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - Hardcover
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Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art by Erika (edt) Suderburg Publisher Comments From Ferdinand Chevel's Palais Ideal (1879-1905) and Simon Rodia's Watts Towers (1921-1954) to Ant Farm's Cadillac Ranch (1974) and Richard Serra's Tilted Arc (1981), installation art has continually crossed boundaries, encompassing sculpture... (read more) Your price: $34.50 New - Trade Paper
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Evan Penny: Rendering Realities by Evan (art) Penny Publisher Comments Canadian artist Evan Penny (born 1953) makes the kind of sculpture that is so realistic, so detailed and so plainly a demonstration of virtuoso ability that it can literally stop people in their tracks. Modeled with tremendous craftsmanship in aluminium,... (read more) Your price: $45.00 New - Hardcover
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From Fire to Form: Sculpture from the Modern Blacksmith and Metalsmith by Mathew S Clarke Synopsis Over 500 striking color photos display artworks produced by today's leading blacksmiths and metalsmiths. Revealed here are beautiful sculptures, created by long-established and new artists, and destined for individual homes, public parks, and other... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Alluring Presence by Lyle (art) Sopel Synopsis From classical to abstract to iconic, Lyle Sopels sublime repertoire of original gemstone sculptures is featured for the first time in one volume of over 180 pages of breathtaking images. Both eclectic and prolific in his approach to his subject matter... (read more) Your price: $59.95 New - Hardcover
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Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics by Louise Allison Cort Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-211) and index.... (read more) Your price: $68.50 New - Hardcover
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Rirkrit Tiravanija: Cook Book by Rirkrit Tiravanija Publisher Comments International award winning artist Rirkrit Tiravanija has collected in this lavishly illustrated book, 23 classic recipes that he has reinterpreted in galleries all over the world, including the Guggenheim in New York and the Serpentine, London Unique... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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