Sculpture: Processes and Principles
Language: English
Published by Harper & Row Publishers; Icon Editions, New York, 1977
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
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288 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Lectures given at Cambridge University during 1970-71. Tight, clean copy. *** "With the aid of over 180 photographs, this book studies what unites and separates sculptors across the centuries. It looks at the masters of Archaic Greece, the Middle Ages, through the great names of Michelangelo, Cellini and Bernini to Rodin, Brancusi and Henry Moore. By studying their working methods and techniques, the author discloses their artistic ideas and convictions, thereby opening up new avenues of approach for the spectator." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Antiquity; The Middle Ages: Theoretical foundations; Chartres West; The Middle Ages: Chartres, Rheims, Bamberg, Orvieto; The Renaissance: Alberti, Gauricus, Leonardo; Michelangelo; Michelangelo, Cellini, Vasari; Giovanni, Bologna, Cellini; Bernini; Bernini, Bouchardon, Pigalle; Falconet, Winckelmann, Canova, Schadow; The nineteenth century: Rodin, Hildebrand; The twentieth century. Size: 8vo.
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- Title
- Sculpture: Processes and Principles
- Author
- Wittkower, Rudolf
- Publisher
- Harper & Row Publishers; Icon Editions, New York
- Publication year
- 1977
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0064300919
- ISBN 13
- 9780064300919
- Edition
- 1st.
- Seller catalogs
- Media::Metalwork, Media::Sculpture, Media::Stonework, XO::Standard
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