Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism is structured around four distinct but interrelated projects initially realized in Italy between 1966 and 1972: Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden, Mich
This lavish book documents the developments in the field of fiber-related art over the past half century. Scholarly essays address the feminist movement of the 1970s; the expanded use of materials in
You Call That Art?! first provides an overview of sculpture from prehistory until the late 19th century, then gives readers a look at ten 20th-century artists who helped define modern sculpture. Inclu
Taking its departure point from the 1933 surrealist photographs of a€?involuntary sculpturesa€? by BrassaA¯ and DalA-, Found Sculpture and Photography from Surrealism to Contemporary Art offers fresh
This far-ranging collection of essays—the first book-length scholarly exploration of Orsanmichele since 1996—marks the conclusion of a decades-long campaign to restore the magnificent medieval church
Piano keyboards, stacked to the ceiling, feature sheet music, straw and mice. A Zen garden features turbines and window frames. A white figure, obviously in need of a good meal, towers several stories
Published in conjunction with the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery in London, one of today’s most important institutions collecting and exhibiting contemporary art, this mammoth book is the most com
The successful 500 series shines a spotlight on today’s most breathtaking ceramic sculptures. Selected from more than 8,000 entries by the distinguished art critic, historian, and professor Gle
Sculpture Today is a survey of the astonishing changes that the art of sculpture has undergone from the 1960s onwards. Written from a global perspective and generously illustrated with almost 500 imag
I remain fascinated by the tricky nature of Duchamp's readymades--objects transformed into art, but not quite. They always retain their original identity of function. This is why many people refer to
Twelve contributions by art scholars examine sculptural practice in both Eastern and Western Europe during the period 1945-1968. The emphasis is on the shift away from the realist figurative tradition
This is an American dream story : Ray Nasher, the son of a Russian immigrant father, a boy from Boston who made good. This is the story of Ray's marriage to Patsy, and their desire to collect only the
The National Gallery's collection of nineteenth-century European sculpture is dominated by 37 works by Auguste Rodin and more than 30 portrait busts by Honore Daumier. Works by Antoine-Louis Barye, Je
Framed in a lucid discussion of the intellectual issues surrounding the postmodern movement, the essays in this book re-examine the course of twentieth-century art through the work of twenty-five majo
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-b
