30 Millennia of Sculpture
Author : Joseph Manca
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 1597 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 2016-12-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1683253620
Author : Joseph Manca
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 1597 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 2016-12-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1683253620
Author : Klaus H. Carl
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 2016-12-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1683253590
Author : Hans-Jürgen Döpp
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 1240 pages
File Size : 39,20 MB
Release : 2016-12-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1783103337
Author : Sotheby's (Firm)
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 2023
Category :
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Author : Carol Michaelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674023895
Drawing on the British Museum's extensive collection, this book explores the traditional hierarchy of materials and techniques reaching back as far as the Han Dynasty in the third century BC. In the history and character of the works under scrutiny, this sumptuously illustrated book conveys an understanding of Chinese art in all its great variety.
Author : Constantin A. Marinescu
Publisher :
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 16,92 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art, Ancient
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Author : Julius Ritter von Schlosser
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Human anatomy
ISBN : 9780892368778
The material history of wax is a history of disappearance--wax melts, liquefies, evaporates, and undergoes innumerable mutations. Wax is tactile, ambiguous, and mesmerizing, confounding viewers and scholars alike. It can approximate flesh with astonishing realism and has been used to create uncanny human simulacra since ancient times--from phallic amulets offered to heal distressing conditions and life-size votive images crammed inside candlelit churches by the faithful, to exquisitely detailed anatomical specimens used for training doctors and Medardo Rosso's "melting" portraits. The critical history of wax, however, is fraught with gaps and controversies. After Giorgio Vasari, the subject of wax sculpture was abandoned by art historians; in the twentieth century it once again sparked intellectual interest, only soon to vanish. The authors of the eight essays in Ephemeral Bodies--including the first English translation of Julius von Schlosser's seminal "History of Portraiture in Wax" (1910-11)--break new ground as they explore wax reproductions of the body or body parts and assess their conceptual ambiguity, material impermanence, and implications for the history of Western art.
Author : Christopher Lyon
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,41 MB
Release : 2011
Category : ART
ISBN : 9783791350066
"More than 100 years of unschooled artistic genius is gathered in this wide-ranging survey that will elight and inform Outsider Art's rapidly growing audience. Filled with beautiful artworks from every era, Couples in Art is inspired by the myriad images of lovers, spouses, and amorous couples found throughout The Metropolitan Museum of Art's encyclopedic collection"--
Author : Victoria Charles
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 1781609470
Mega Square Sculpture spans over 23,000 years and over 120 examples of the most beautiful sculptures in the world: from prehistoric art and Egyptian statues to the works of Michelangelo, Henry Moore and Niki de Saint-Phalle. It illuminates the wide variety of materials used and the evolution of styles over centuries, as well as the peculiarities of the most important sculptors.
Author : Nancy Lorraine Thompson
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art, Roman
ISBN : 1588392228
A complete introduction to the rich cultural legacy of Rome through the study of Roman art ... It includes a discussion of the relevance of Rome to the modern world, a short historical overview, and descriptions of forty-five works of art in the Roman collection organized in three thematic sections: Power and Authority in Roman Portraiture; Myth, Religion, and the Afterlife; and Daily Life in Ancient Rome. This resource also provides lesson plans and classroom activities."--Publisher website.