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Selected Surveys of Sculpture
Vitamin 3-D by
While much of the artistic innovation of the last two decades centered on the image, today the greatest strides are being taken in three dimensions. Contemporary art maintains an ongoing fascination with the key issues of modern sculpture, from the ready-made to the specific object, and artists today are returning to them again and again, with fresh and often surprising results.
Call Number: NB198.6 .V58 2009
Sculpture Now by
This new book in the World of Art series surveys the dynamic developments in sculptural practice worldwide since the mid-1990s, outlining major trends and identifying important and vibrant artists who are forging new paths and setting the contemporary agenda.
Call Number: NB198.6 .V58 2009Sculpture Today by A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated overview of contemporary sculpture. Contemporary sculpture is a wide-ranging and fascinating subject, surprisingly unrepresented in the current marketplace. This beautifully illustrated book is a comprehensive overview of developments in the world of sculpture during the past fifty years, and follows the successful, highly illustrated formula of Phaidon's best-selling volumes Art Today and Architecture Today.
Call Number: NB198 .C65 2007
The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture by
This book - the largest on contemporary sculpture yet to appear - is itself an object. The sequence of nearly 700 pages creates, as its title, suggests, an artistic vision of the future. The novel by H.G. Wells, to which the title refers, envisioned events up to the twenty-second century and served both as a surprisingly accurate prophecy and a reflection of the author's own time.
Call Number: NB198.6 .S53 2009
Raw+Material=Art: Found, Scavenged, and Upcycled by
Tristan Manco reveals how artists of all kinds are bringing creativity to basic, often unglamorous materials—from broken bottles, old flip-flops, and skateboards to sustainable resources such as wood, straw, and paper.
Call Number: N6498.E26 M36 2012
Embodiments: Masterworks of African Figurative Sculpture by
This volume, on a unique and wide-ranging collection of figural sculptures from sub-Saharan Africa, examines not only each distinctive piece, but also how these works of art express value systems and cultural relationships both inside and outside Africa.
Call Number: NB1091.65 .E43 2015
The Human Factor: the Figure in Contemporary Sculpture by
The Human Factor: the Figure in Contemporary Sculpture' brings together the work of 25 leading international artists, in whose practice the human form plays a central role. Over the past 25 years, artists have reinvented figurative sculpture by looking back to earlier movements in art history as well as imagery from contemporary culture.
Call Number: NB1930 .H863 2014
Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia by
Numerous Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms flourished in Southeast Asia from the 5th to the 9th century, yet until recently few concrete details were known about them. Lost Kingdoms reveals newly discovered architectural and sculptural relics from this region, which provide key insights into the formerly mysterious kingdoms.
Call Number: NB1912.H55 G89 2014
Unmonumental: the Object in the 21st Century by
"Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century" is the first exhibition in the "Unmonumental" cycle, and explores the reinvention of sculptural assemblage. Using found, fragmented, and discarded materials, the works of the artists on view make a case for modesty, informality, and improvisation.
Call Number: NB198 .U66 2007Fiber Sculpture, 1960-Present by This lavish book documents the developments in the field of fiber-related art over the past half century. The 1960s saw a revolution in fiber art. Where once the focus was on knotting, twining, and coiling thread into works that were immediately recognizable, and therefore connected to utilitarian crafts, fiber artists of the later 20th-century began to experiment with abstract forms that were closer to sculpture than craft.
Call Number: NB1203 .F53 2014
Books on the Interpretation of Sculpture
Modern Sculpture Reader by
In many anthologies of art, sculpture is given short shrift in relation to other media, if it is treated at all. Modern Sculpture Reader aims to rectify this situation by presenting a collection of important texts that have defined sculpture’s radically changing status and role since the end of the nineteenth century, a time marked by a general reappraisal of the forms and functions of art.
Call Number: NB198 .M52 2012
A Sculpture Reader: Contemporary Sculpture Since 1980 by
A unique anthology of articles on contemporary sculptors drawn from the 25-year history of Sculpture magazine, A Sculpture Reader offers a valuable overview of three dimensional art since 1980. Focusing on individual artists rather than themes or movements, the 42 essays in A Sculpture Reader capture the wide-ranging possibilities that characterize contemporary sculpture.
Call Number: NB198 .S35213 2006
The Elements of Sculpture by
Compelling and jargon-free, The Elements of Sculpture discovers and isolates the attributes - from the most physical to the most ephemeral - that make up an essential three-dimensional visual language; the very elements that form the tools sculptors use to create their art: Material, Place, Surface, Edge, Texture, Colour, Scale, Mass, Centre of Gravity, Volume, Space, Movement, Light and Memory.
Call Number: NB1142.5 .G46 2014
The Sculptural Imagination by
Potts also offers a detailed view of selected iconic works by sculptors ranging from Antonio Canova and Auguste Rodin to Constantin Brancusi, David Smith, Carl Andre, Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois - key players in modern thinking about the sculptural.
Call Number: NB1142.5 .P68 2000Materiality (Documents of Contemporary Art) by Anthology of critical writings. Artists surveyed include Goerges Adéagbo, Carl Andre, Janine Antoni, Amy Balkin, Artur Barrio, Robert Barry, Helen Chadwick, Mel Chin, Herman de Vries, Mark Dion, Jimmie Durham, Valie Export, Chohreh Feyzdjou, Romuald Hazoumè, Ilya Kabakov, Mike Kelley, Zoe Leonard, Anthony McCall, Teresa Margolles, Robert Morris, Orlan, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Tino Sehgal, Shozo Shimamoto, Santiago Sierra, Robert Smithson, Simon Starling, Paul Thek, Paul Vanouse, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Kara Walker.
Call Number: N6490 .M337 2015
Other Books on Sculpture
The Paper Sculpture Book: A Complete Exhibition in a Book with 29 Buildable Sculptures by
"Drawing on sculptural 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.
Call Number: NB1270.P3 P27 2003
Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s by
Prior to 1966, if artists wanted to create works larger than their studios of metalworking abilities allowed, they had to turn to industrial manufacturers, who were often unable to accommodate the creative process of making art. The opening that year of Lippincott, Inc., put the tools of industrial fabrication in the hands of artists and forever changed the development of American art.
Call Number: NB1276 .L57 2010
Strandbeest: the Dream Machines of Theo Jansen by
For the past seven years, photographer and artist Lena Herzog has followed the evolution of a new, kinetic species. Intricate as insects, but with bursts of equine energy, the "Strandbeests" or "beach creatures," are the creation of Dutch artist Theo Jansen, who has been working for nearly two decades to develop a new life-form that moves, and even survives, on its own.
Call Number: NB653.J285 A4 2014
Sculpture Call Numbers
NB1-1952 Sculpture
NB1-50 General
NB60-1115 History
NB1120-1133 Study and teaching
NB1134-1134.4 Competitions
NB1135-1150 General works
NB1160-1195 Designs and technique
NB1199-1200 Restoration of sculptures
NB1203-1270 Special materials
NB1272-1291 Mobiles, color, sculpture gardens, etc.
NB1293-1895 Special forms
NB1293-1310 Portrait sculpture
NB1312-1313 Equestrian statues
NB1330-1685 Sculptural monuments
NB1750-1793 Religious monuments and shrines
NB1800-1880 Sepulchral monuments
NB1910-1952 Special subjects
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