The Materials of Sculpture

by: Penny, N.

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This book surveys the sculpture of many civilizations, from ancient Egypt, Greece and China to fifteenth-century Italy, nineteenth-century France and twentieth-century North America, to explain how sculpture is made. The author provides a basic introduction to the nature of the materials used by sculptors, examining how these were regarded as well as how they were worked in different periods and in different cultures

This is a book that explains, with copious illustrations, both textual and pictorial, how sculpture is made. It is a survey of world sculpture that cuts across the divisions of school and chronology and examines in detail works of art, taken from all the major civilizations (from the earliest surviving Egyptian and Chinese sculpture to that of the twentieth century in Europe and Northern America), in terms of the materials and techniques used. The book is divided into chapters according to the material used - granite, ivory, wax etc. The limitations and challenges special to each of the materials - its availability, durability, versatility, size, colour etc - are defined and discussed, not only between the materials themselves, but between the art of different cultures. The book gives a completely new perspective to the history of world sculpture, and provides an excellent basic introduction to the way sculpture is made and what it is made from.

Contents:
The hardest stones
Granite and porphyry
White marbles and alabasters: part 1
White marbles and alabasters: part 2
The versatility of marble
The traces of the tool
Coloured marbles
Schist, sandstone and limestone
The structure and decoration of larger wooden sculpture
Varieties of smaller wooden sculpture
Ivory and horn
Stamped and moulded clay
Stucco and gesso
Modelled clay
Modelled wax
Bronze and other copper alloys: part 1
Bronze and other copper alloys: part 2
Embossed and chased metal

Subjects:
Bildband
Geschichte
Material
Materialen
Plastik
Plastische kunst
Sculpture Matériaux
Sculpture Technique
Sculpture materials
Sculptures
Werkstoff

ix, 318 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

The Materials of Sculpture

by: Penny, N.

• ISBN-13: 9780300055566 / 978-0-300-05556-6
• ISBN-03: 0300055560 / 0-300-05556-0
• Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1993

Price: 49,30 EURO

1 copy in stock