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Jewelry and Metalwork in the Arts and Crafts Tradition
This book provides the best study of Arts and Crafts-style jewelry and metalwork to date. Devised late in the 19th century as a reaction to industrialized manufacturing, the Arts and Crafts movement stressed naturalistic materials, designs and techniques. A resurgence of interest in this period has |
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Pornogami: A Guide to the Ancient Art of Paper-Folding for Adults
Master Sugoi's origami normally features classical figures, animals, creatures, and design, but Pornogami shows a new side of his talent. A piece of pornogami folded in the right setting, he discovered, can produce smiles and laughter in a way that no butterfly or bird ever could. Shapes include a |
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Taking Shape: Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts
While some artworks are more readily labeled as "decorative arts" and others as "sculpture," such objects can exchange and share features. Decorative objects intended for functional or ceremonial use can incorporate sculptural forms or assert a sculptural presence and, conversely, sculpture can |
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Welding for Arts and Crafts
Discover the trade secrets that will make welding metal artwork easier! Welding for Arts and Crafts features 85 pages of easy-to-understand diagrams and simple, step-by-step instructions for creating some of the most attractive welded creations - from animals and yard art, to functional household |
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Art of Colonial Latin America A&I (Art and Ideas)
For over three hundred years, from the era of Christopher Columbus to the struggles for independence around 1820, Latin America witnessed an artistic flowering of enormous creativity and originality. In a unique way, the art and architecture of Aztec, Inca and GuaranĂ civilizations blended with |
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Greek Art (Basic Art)
The 18th century's Neoclassicist movement, with its white marble sculptures inspired by the art of the ancient world, has helped Greek art to remain vivid in our memories even today. But the reality of ancient art was entirely different, as surfaces were in fact much more brut. As author Michael |
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Art of the Natural World
Prized for over a millennium by Chinese literati, scholars' rocks--stones sculpted by the elements into evocative, richly textured miniature landscapes--have long been objects of contemplation, inspiration, and ever-changing beauty. This succinct, elegantly designed volume offers a meditation by the |
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New Land Marks : Public Art, Community, and the Meaning of Place
The Fairmount Park Art Association, established in 1872, is the nation's first private, nonprofit organization dedicated to the integration of public art and urban planning. This book, New Land Marks: Public Art, Community and the Meaning of Place, documents a two year effort to plan and create |
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Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving
A study of the work of Grinling Gibbons, the decorative woodcarver, seen through the eyes of a fellow carver. The flamboyant cascades of lifelike blossoms, fruits, birds and fish created by Gibbons for palaces, churches and country houses are illustrated in detail. |
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