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Zorach Explains Sculpture: What It Means and How It Is Made (Dover Art Instruction) by William Zorach Publisher Comments This practical and inspirational guide by a noted American sculptor discusses form in art, proportions, anatomy, design, and other essentials. A wealth of information includes advice for building a figure in clay, casting in plaster... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Harry Bertoia Monoprints by Nancy N. Schiffer Book News Annotation Prolific and esteemed sculptor, designer, and all-round versatile artist, Bertoia (1915-1978) made thousands of monoprints, many of which became the basis for sculptures. This volume presents 1,613 images--fascinating in their lively variety and... (read more) Your price: $107.00 New - Hardcover 
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Staging Space: Scenic Interiors and Spatial Experiences by Robert (edt) Klanten Synopsis This book offers new solutions for event architecture, scenography, media installations, interiors, and stage design.... (read more) Your price: $69.00 New - Hardcover
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Fire by Dale Chihuly Synopsis From Baskets and Seaform to Chandeliers and Towers, this 176 page book features subsections dedicated to many of Chihuly's series including a dynamic pictorial chronology documenting the development and history of Chihuly's most popular glass series. A... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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Sculpting Techniques Bible (06 Edition) by Claire Waite Brown Publisher Comments This is a complete guide for sculpting in a wide range of media. Clear photographic sequences show how to model with clay, plaster, and papier mache; select and use wood and stone for carving; make armatures and molds for building and casting. Discover... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Spiral
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Art+com: Media Spaces and Installations by Joachim Sauter Publisher Comments A compelling look at spatial media presentations by the company setting the international standard of excellence in this... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - Hardcover
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Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd by Marianne Stockebrand Publisher Comments The Chinati Foundation is widely considered one of the worlds most important destinations for experiencing large-scale contemporary art. It was founded by Donald Judd (1928-1994), whose specific ambition was to preserve and present a select number of... (read more) Your price: $65.00 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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The Erotic Object: Sexuality in Sculpture from Prehistory to the Present Day by Susan Quinnell Publisher Comments The Erotic Object: Sexuality in Sculpture From Prehistory to the Present The power and eroticism of sculpture, form, volume and space are sensitively explored in this wide-ranging study, which ranges over the history of sculpture from prehistoric times... (read more) Your price: $37.25 New - Trade Paper
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30 Millennia of Sculpture (30 Millennia of Art) by Patrick Bade Publisher Comments From its prehistoric origins to the conceptual modernity of the 20th century, sculpture has literally and figuratively moulded the art world. Offering an integral vision of the evolution of forms across civilisations and epochs, 30 Centuries of... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Sculpture, Glass, and American Museums by Martha Drexler Lynn Publisher Comments In recent decades, glass sculpture has entered American museum collection in unprecedented numbers. A new phenomenon, this reflects new attitudes: an understanding that art-making occurs in glass as suitable for inclusion in museum collections.In this... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Whittling and Woodcarving by E. J. Tangerman Publisher Comments Excellent introduction shows how to avoid pitfalls of craft and gives full information on tools, basic cutting strokes, then presents a wide range of projects: handles, bookends, pipes, chessmen, picture frames, puzzles, ships in bottles, more. 464... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Batak Sculpture by Achim Sibeth Synopsis This lavishly illustrated book, which includes literally hundreds of previously unpublished masterpieces of Batak sculpture from the Delta Collection, will change that forever. This volume is enriched by insightful information from Achim Sibeth, one of... (read more) Your price: $75.00 New - Hardcover
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Greek Sculpture: Function, Materials, and Techniques in the Archaic and Classical Periods by Olga Palagia Publisher Comments During the sixth and fifth centuries BC, Greek sculpture developed into a fine art. With the human figure as its main subject, artists worked to represent it in increasingly natural terms. This book explores the material aspects of Greek sculpture at a... (read more) Your price: $44.50 New - Trade Paper
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Sculpting Basics: Everything You Need to Know to Create Three-Dimensional Artworks by Karin Hessenberg Publisher Comments Art students and ambitious amateur artists who turn to this volume will find detailed training for creating original and distinctive works of sculpture. Karin Hessenberg, an experienced sculptor, opens with extensive advice on setting up the workplace... (read more) Your price: $23.99 New - Hardcover
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Capturing Nature: The Cement Sculpture of Dionicio RodrÃguez by Patsy Pittman Light Publisher Comments Over a period of some twenty years, Mexican-born artisan Dionicio Rodriguez created imaginative sculptures of reinforced concrete that imitated the natural forms and textures of trees and rocks. He worked in eight different states from 1924 through the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $26.62 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Extending the Artist's Hand: Contemporary Sculpture from the Walla Walla Foundry by Chris Bruce Publisher Comments A quiet country town nestled at the foot of Washington's Blue Mountains with one high school and a population of just under 30,000 is the unlikely home of a world-class art organization, the Walla Walla Foundry. On one particular day, curious onlookers... (read more) Your price: $23.95 New - Hardcover
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Writing and Seeing Architecture by Christian De Portzamparc Publisher Comments 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.... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Olafur Elliason & Ma Yangsong: Feelings Are Facts by Qiao Cui Publisher Comments Renowned Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) and the young Chinese architect Ma Yansong (born 1975) collaborated on an installation in which light and architecture merge to warp the viewer's experience of space. Eliasson's artificial fog,... (read more) Your price: $21.00 New - Hardcover
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Sculpting in Stone by John Valentine Publisher Comments Part of the new 'Basics of Sculpture' series. Sculpting in Stone aims to give the beginner a thorough grounding and knowledge of this ancient craft. It introduces the novice to the basics, looking at the various types of rock (everything from sandstone... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $31.50 New - Mass Market
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