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PABLO PICASSO: "…when the form is realized, it is there to live its own life."
HENRY MOORE: "The sculpture which moves me most is full-blooded and self-supporting, fully in the round; giving out something of an energy and power of great mountains, it has a life of its own independent of the object it represents."
African Art Speaks, the first full appraisal of African art published in the United States, describes and illustrates the sculpted works...
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Esta colección de escultura propone una visión del arte occidental auténtica e innovadora que inicia en la antigüedad y acaba en el siglo XX. Aquí reunidas están las obras maestras más sensuales y harmoniosas además de las más provocativas y minimalistas. La escultura como actividad se caracteriza por esculpir nuestro mundo y nuestro concepto de belleza, dejando tras de sí imperecederas siluetas y siempre modelando otras nuevas e intrigantes....
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Nicolas Notovitch was born into an aristocratic Jewish family, but converted to Christianity in his youth. A prolific journalist, author of twelve books (and some say, spy), he travelled widely in the east, visiting India, Afghanistan and Ladakh. After a riding accident that broke his leg, Notovitch recuperated at a Tibetan monastery in Hemis. Here, he heard of a manuscript that revealed astonishing information on the sixteen 'Lost Years of Jesus'-the...
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[2015]
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207 pages : color illustrations, map ; 31 cm
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"From Edward James's surreal sculpture garden Las Pozas in Mexico to Anselm Kiefer's sprawling studio complex in the French countryside, artists and art collectors are creating outdoor spaces in order to display sculpture and art that is both transformative and powerful. This book is filled with breathtaking photographs of 25 of these spaces from throughout the world--many of which are not open to the public. Captured in brilliant colour, these spaces...
6) Escultura
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El volumen de Mega Square Escultura abarca más de 23.000 años y contiene más de 120 ejemplos de las esculturas más hermosas del mundo, desde el arte prehistórico y las estatuas egipcias hasta las obras de Miguel Ángel, Henry Moore y Niki de Saint-Phalle. Describe la gran variedad de materiales empleados y la evolución de los estilos a lo largo de los siglos, así como las peculiaridades de los principales escultores. Su formato práctico y...
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Chasing Vermeer volume 3
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When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.
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Complete illustrated instructions for making an almost limitless variety of imaginative paper objects-masks, hats, baskets, greeting cards, party decorations, costumes, Christmas decorations, even mobile sculptures. Over 470 photographs and 560 diagrams and illustrations. Only scissors, an X-acto knife, staples and adhesives are required.
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An in-depth look at the exquisite metal sculpture of the Roman baroque
Roman baroque sculpture is usually thought of in terms of large-scale statues in marble and bronze, tombs, or portrait busts. Smaller bronze statuettes are often overlooked, and the extensive production of sculptural silver-much of which is now lost but can be studied from drawings-is frequently omitted from the histories of art. In this book, Jennifer Montagu enriches our understanding...
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In addition to hundreds of whimsical welded sculptures, Tom Every poured most of his effort into the Forevertron, the world's largest sculpture built by a single person, and in the process, he discovered his alter ego: Dr. Evermor. With the full participation of Tom and Eleanor Every, Every's amazing life is keenly documented, including never published family photos, sketches, and personal memories, producing a detailed portrait of a unique self-taught...
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Von ihren prähistorischen Anfängen bis zur konzeptionellen Moderne des 20. Jahrhunderts hat die Skulptur die Welt der Kunst buchstäblich und im übertragenen Sinn geformt. Einen einheitlichen Blick auf die Entwicklung der Formen in allen Epochen und Zivilisationen eröffnend, präsentiert dieses Werk die Meisterwerke der Bildhauerei, die mit ihrer Zeitlosigkeit die heutige Auffassung von Schönheit prägten. Als Spiegelbild von Ära, Künstler...




