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Art Jewelry Today
Art Jewelry Today. Dona Z. Meilach. Here is a beautiful new look at contemporary art jewelry. This invaluable reference will guide those who buy, wear, collect, and create one-of-a-kind, hand-made jewelry to the newest developments and their artist/innovators. Peek into the minds of todays |
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Celtic Art: From Its Beginnings to the Book of Kells
In the decade since it was first published, Celtic Art has established itself as the standard introduction to a vast field of European artistic endeavor. The authors have continued to keep abreast of discoveries and new interpretations of old material from Britain to Bulgaria, and the fruits of |
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The Carver's Art: Crafting Meaning from Wood
In this book I tell of my conversations with several men who carve chains and other related objects. The linked chain cut from a single block of wood is the most persistent and universal form of woodcarving. I do not pretend to explain every global instance of chain carving; rather, I look at the |
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The Art of Ian Norbury: Sculptures in Wood
This gallery of carvings features the work of Ian Norbury, one of the world's leading sculptors, whose innovative style incorporates materials including mixed timber, colored wood, metals, stones, shells, and gems. Photographs richly illustrate his art, which is inspired by masters such as Salvador |
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Site Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation
Site Specifice Art brilliantly charts the development of an experiemental art form in an experimental way. Nick Kaye traces the fascinating historical antecedents of today's installation and performance art, while also assembling a unique documentation of contemporary practice around the world. |
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Installation Art in the New Millennium: The Empire of the Senses
"Wonderfully illustrated and wide-ranging...does an excellent job of showing the charged, dynamic conversation taking place between artist and audience." — Library Journal Over the past decade Installation art has achieved mainstream status within contemporary visual culture. Its ascendancy has |
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Recycled Re-Seen: Folk Art from the Global Scrap Heap
Whether it is a dustpan made out of a license plate, a bowl fashioned from a bent vinyl record, a pair of sandals with soles made of Goodyear tire treads, or a tin-can lantern, folk artists all over the world are turning trash into treasure. Their found and recycled materials are reincarnated to |
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The Traditional Art of the Mask: Carving a Transformation Mask
This is rare look into the traditional ways of creating the beautiful masks that have brought such admiration to the native American carvers of the Pacific Northwest. The masks of the Kwakiutl people of the Pacific Northwest are noted around the world for their bold colorful designs. Used for |
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The Temptation: Edgar Tolson and the Genesis of Twentieth-Century Folk Art
Why, beginning in the late 1960s, did expressive objects made by poor people come to be regarded as "twentieth-century folk art," increasingly sought after by the middle class and the wealthy? Julia Ardery explores that question through the life story of Kentucky woodcarver Edgar Tolson (1904-1984) |
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