The Elements of Sculpture: A Viewer's Guide - Hardcover

George, Herbert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714867411 ISBN 13: 9780714867410

Verlag: Phaidon Press, 2014

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The Elements of Sculpture is the essential viewer's guide to experiencing sculpture. Richly illustrated with colour photographs of artworks both modern and classical and written by a sculptor and teacher with lifelong experience, it arms the reader with the tools and vocabulary with which to view a vast range of sculptures. Insightful and thought-provoking, it is accessible to the widest audience, both as a primer for students and for general readers, it provides a new way of looking at, experiencing and discussing the art of crafting in three dimensions.

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Herbert George is a sculptor and retired teacher. As a sculptor, his work has received support and recognition from the New York State Council on the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. In the 1970s he founded TRACKS, A Journal of Artists’ Writings and taught the history of sculpture at Cooper Union in New York. In 1985, he moved to the University of Chicago where he taught undergraduate and graduate sculpture. He retired from teaching in 2006, and was awarded a Getty Museum Fellowship in 2007.

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The essential visual vocabulary which to view and discuss sculpture.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Phaidon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0714867411
• ISBN 13: 9780714867410
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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