Sculpture Today
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (682 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0714857637 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Excellent book. I would definitely recommend it Excellent book. I would definitely recommend it. The pictures of the sculptures are big and in color. Very informative about contemporary sculptures. Finally a Comprehensive Collection of Recent Sculpture A strong and satisfying overview of the last 20 years of sculptors' work, although many of these sculptors have been working for a lifetime. We all agree the text is unnecessarily difficult to read because of the grey color, use of American Typewriterfor the typeface, and the 10 or 11 point type size.Given how hard the designers seemed to work to make it a difficult read, the text itself is a balance of accessib. "A great disappointment" according to Lee W. Lenz. This large and bulky book is a great disappointment. It is well illustrated but the text is nearly impossible to read; print size is small,lines long and it appears to have been composed on an old-fashioned typewriter without proportional spacing which might lead one to wonder when it was written. To further add to the difficuly of reading,it is printed using gray ink. The artists included appears to be totally
No matter what you know about the subject already, this is exciting stuff."-Artists and Illustrators "There are surprisingly few general books on modern sculpture, so this one fills a big gap, and it fills it well Coherent and intelligent"-Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Burlington Magazine . "The scope of sculpture today has been addressed head-on by a seasoned authority
She is the author of a wide range of books, which include The Omega Workshops ( Secker & Warburg, 1983), The Origins of the Romanesque (Lund Humphries, 1983), Eric Gill: The Sculpture (Herbert Press, 1993) and Andy Goldsworthy: Midsummer Snowballs (Thames & Hudson, 2001),and has written exhibition catalogues on numer
Judith Collins's authoritative yet accessible text explores the various subjects, materials and styles utilized by sculptors and offers a fascinating insight into this versatile and wide-ranging art form.. This illustrated book is a comprehensive overview of developments in the world of sculpture during the past fifty years, and follows the successful, highly illustrated formula of Phaidon's volumes 'Art Today' and 'Architecture Today'