International Sculpture
Title | International Sculpture PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Sculptors |
ISBN |
Harry Bertoia
Title | Harry Bertoia PDF eBook |
Author | Marin R. Sullivan |
Publisher | Scheidegger and Spiess |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-03-22 |
Genre | Sculpture, American |
ISBN | 9783858818621 |
An extraordinary artist and designer: a fresh view of Harry Bertoia's entire body of work. Italian-born American Harry Bertoia (1915-78) was one of the most prolific and innovative artists and designers of the postwar period. Trained at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he met future colleagues and collaborators, such as Charles and Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, and Eero Saarinen, he went on to make one-of-a-kind jewelry, design iconic chairs, create thousands of unique sculptures including large-scale commissions for significant buildings, and advance the use of sound as sculptural material. His work speaks to the confluence of numerous fields of endeavor but is united throughout by a sculptural approach to making and an experimental embrace of metal. Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life accompanies the first US museum retrospective of the artist's career to examine the full scope of his broad, interdisciplinary practice and features important examples of his furniture, jewelry, monotypes, and diverse sculptural output. Lavishly illustrated, the book offers new scholarly essays as well as a catalog of the artist's numerous large-scale commissions. It questions how and why we distinguish between a chair, a necklace, a screen, and a freestanding sculpture--and what Bertoia's sculptural things, when taken together, say about the fluidity of visual language across culture, both at midcentury and now.
The Paper Sculpture Book
Title | The Paper Sculpture Book PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Freedman |
Publisher | Independent Curators International |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Paper sculpture |
ISBN | 9780916365691 |
Drawing on (s)cul(p)tural paradigms as diverse as paper-doll books, Mad magazine fold-ins and exploded schematic diagrams, the artists in The Paper Sculpture Book offer a hands-on, self-contained art show. Artworks meant to be cut out by the reader and assembled using very basic materials such as tape and rubber bands have been designed by 29 established and emerging contemporary artists, including The Art Guys, Minerva Cuevas, Seong Chun, Nicole Eisenman, Spencer Finch, Rachel Harrison, Stephen Hendee, Patrick Killoran, Glenn Ligon, Helen Mirra, David Shrigley, Sarah Sze, Chris Ware and Allan Wexler. Fred Tomaselli merges images from a birding book and an outdoor-clothing catalogue to create an ironic yet beautiful aviary. Janine Antoni's Crumple provides precise instructions for recreating a crumpled ball of paper, while Luca Buvoli invites the reader to take a pop-up flying lesson from the mysterious Professor M.a.S. Obviously, these are not your elementary-school paper airplanes.
Soft Sculpture and Beyond
Title | Soft Sculpture and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Jutta Feddersen |
Publisher | Craftsman House (AU) |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1993-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9789768097385 |
Landscapes for Art
Title | Landscapes for Art PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Harper |
Publisher | Isc Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Sculpture parks and gardens, whether woodland sanctuaries or urban retreats, sprawling sites or intimate oases, offer sculpture lovers and artists alike unique ways to experience the outdoors, sculpture, and the intersections between nature and culture. Since the mid-20th century, these venues have become important tourist destinations and essential aspects of public life in cities such as Chicago, Minneapolis, and Seattle and regions such as Yorkshire in England and the Hudson Highlands in New York. Landscapes for Art: Contemporary Sculpture Parks surveys a wide range of sculpture parks and gardens that focus on contemporary art--from well-established, museum-type institutions to small-scale, non-collecting, experimental programs. The book includes profiles of sculpture parks in the U.S., U.K., Japan, Australia, Lithuania, China, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, India, Latvia, Sweden, and Finland (among others). There are articles on key topics by art critics, landscape architects, and sculpture park professionals and interviews with Isamu Noguchi, Martin Friedman, and Alfio Bonanno.
International Sculpture Centre
Title | International Sculpture Centre PDF eBook |
Author | International Sculpture Centre |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Sculpture in Rotterdam
Title | Sculpture in Rotterdam PDF eBook |
Author | Jan van Adrichem |
Publisher | 010 Publishers |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Outdoor sculpture |
ISBN | 9064504822 |