Sculpture
Forthcoming Books
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Ed. Valentina Fogher
Hex
Through my Hands I SeeFor Hex (b. 1964), found steel objects are often the basic material for his abstract sculptures. With the help of welding equipment, angle grinder, hammer and polishing machine, he creates beautifully shaped and extremely impressive works of art ... -
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Ed. Konrad Bitterli et al.
Following the merger of three important Winterthur collections to form the Kunst Museum Winterthur, this volume presents the highlights of the three museums for the first time in splendidly illustrated form: from Rembrandt to Caspar David Friedrich ... -
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Ed. Museum Tinguely
Otto Piene
Wege zum Paradies. Paths to ParadiseOtto Piene (1928−2014) aimed high with his art: to shape a more peaceful, and sustainable world. His expansive view explored new media and projected aesthetic forms and experiences into new spatial realms. This volume presents new scholarship ... -
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Ed. Donna Gustafson
George Segal
Themes and VariationsGeorge Segal’s ghostly figures are immediately recognisable, even by those who don’t know the artist’s name. Some are installed in public spaces, as if participating in the world at large. This book explores his revolutionary ... -
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Ed. Nick Mafi
Calatrava
ArtSantiago Calatrava is primarily known for his spectacular architectural feats that span the globe. Yet he has never limited himself to architecture alone; rather, he sees himself as an artist. With his painting, sketching, drawing, sculpture, ... -
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Ed. Juliet Simpson et al.
Gothic Modern
From Edvard Munch to Käthe Kollwitz"Gothic Modern" illuminates the pivotal discovery of medieval Gothic art for Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz and their artist contemporaries. It explores their deep attraction to the Gothic art of Europe’s north and German lands ... -
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Ed. Juliet Simpson et al.
Gothic Modern
Fra Edvard Munch til Käthe Kollwitz"Gothic Modern" illuminates the pivotal discovery of medieval Gothic art for Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz and their artist contemporaries. It explores their deep attraction to the Gothic art of Europe’s north and German lands ... -
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Ed. Antonia Hoerschelmann et al.
With his Fat Cars and Tiny Houses, his sculptures of cucumbers, and sausages, Erwin Wurm (b. 1954) shines a critical spotlight on consumer society’s manipulative mechanisms and their effects. On the occasion of Wurm’s 70th birthday this ... -
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Christoph Wagner
Johannes Itten
Catalogue raisonné Vol.III. Documents and Sources on the Biography. Graphic Work, Sculpture, Tapestries, Furniture. 1888-1967The Swiss artist Johannes Itten (1888–1967) was not only a pioneering art theorist and a prominent teacher at the Bauhaus, but he also left an extensive and wide-ranging oeuvre which is only known in part today. The lavishly illustrated ... -
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Peter van Ham
Tabo - Gods of Light
The Indo-Tibetan Masterpiece - RevisitedOver one thousand years old, the Buddhist monastery complex of Tabo with its exquisitely preserved works of art ranks among the most fascinating cultural and historical treasures of mankind. The new edition of this richly illustrated volume shows ... -
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Ed. Nichole N. Bridges
"Narrative Wisdom and African Arts" explores how historical and contemporary African arts make visible narratives rooted in collective and individual memory and knowledge. Historical works made by artists across sub-Saharan Africa during ... -
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Ed. Suzanne Ramljak
David Smith
The Nature of SculptureSpanning the full career of the sculptor David Smith (1906–65), this study features some fifty sculptures alongside related paintings, reliefs and works on paper to reclaim the primacy of nature within his expansive oeuvre. -
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Ed. Julie Decker
Sonya Kelliher-Combs was raised in the Northwest Alaska community of Nome. Her work has been shown in numerous individual and group exhibitions in Alaska, the United States and internationally. She offers through her mixed media painting and ... -
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Ed. Dancing Foxes Press et al.
In the Company of Artists
A History of Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture"In the Company of Artists" is the first major study of Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, the influential summer art school founded by artists for artists amidst the tumult of World War II. Skowhegans philosophy and impact, ... -
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Fernando Mazzocca
Canova
La RiconoscenzaAntonio Canova invented a new genre with his "Ideal Heads". They were intended as gifts for close friends and persons he admired as an expression of his affection and gratitude. Starting from the famous bust "La Riconoscenza", ... -
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Ed. Miriam Goldmann et al.
Sensuous, bold and topical – this volume with its varied illustrations studies the entire spectrum of Jewish ideas about sexuality. In doing so it examines widely-held and contradictory stereotypes, according to which Jewish tradition either ...