"Alberto Giacometti's 1943 Cube stands apart for many as atypical of the Swiss artist, the only abstract sculptural work in a wide œvre that otherwise had as its objective the exploration of reality. With The Cube and the Face, renowned French art historian and philosopher Georg…
Before Cortés, sculpture of Middle America: a centennial exhibition at the Metropolitan Museu…
by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress), Hoving, Thomas, Easby, Elizabeth Kennedy, Scott, John F., (John Fredrik), Easby, Dudley T., Jr.,, (Dudley Tate)
Affiliation, worldliness, and modernism in India -- An art of the soil : Amrita Sher-Gil (1913-1941) -- Man and Mahabharata : Maqbool Fida Husain (1915-2011) -- The new primitives : K. G. Subramanyan (1924-) -- Paan shop for people : Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003) -- Globalization, …
This book studies major works by important sculptors since Rodin in the light of different approaches to general sculptural issues to reveal the logical progressions from nineteenth-century figurative works to the conceptual work of the present.
In this book, Dan Adler addresses recent tendencies in contemporary art toward assemblage sculpture and how these works incorporate tainted materials - often things left on the side of the road - and combine them in ways that allow each element to retain a degree of empirical sp…
"In this book, Julia Guernsey examines the relationship between human figuration, fragmentation, bodily divisibility, personhood, and community in ancient Mesoamerica [roughly 2000 BC to AD 250]. Contending that representation of the human body in the pre-classic period graduall…
Stein/Silex - Römerzeit - Militäranlage. Helvetica ; Archäologie.
