Chinese Cut-Paper Designs

Giorgio Agamben, Edward Albee, Reinhold Baumstark, Carla Schulz-Hoffmann

Cy Twombly: New Sculptures 1998-2005 Primarily known for his paintings and drawings, Cy Twombly has been creating sculpture during his entire career. His characteristic use of poetic and mythic elements is also evident in this field. Out of "mundane" objects such as crates, broomsticks, paper napkins, mashers, stools, string and paper he composes white-painted sculptures. Retaining their everyday identity and materiality the constituent objects take on a condition oblivious to time and change and a life of their own. Fanciful, witty, and at times sarcastic, Twombly transforms his objects, lending them a mythic meaningfulness and a whole new beauty. This publication is the catalog to an exhibition at Munich's Alte Pinakothek in spring 2006 presenting 33 new sculptures created between 1998 and 2005. Edited by Reinhold Baumstark and Carla Schulz-Hoffmann Texts by Edward Albee, Giorgio Agamben, Carla Schulz-Hoffmann and others

Chapters: National Statuary Hall Collection, List of equestrian statues in the United States, Snowplow, The Last of the Tribes, Cigarette,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol comprises statues donated by individual states to honor persons notable in their history. Originally set up in the old Hall of the House of Representatives, renamed National Statuary Hall, the expanding collection has since been spread throughout the Capitol. As of 2006, the collection consists of 101 statues contributed by 50 states. Virginia was authorized 3 statues, Presidents Washington and Jefferson as well as Robert E. Lee. With the addition of New Mexico's second statue in 2005, the collection is now complete. Alabama, California, and Kansas each replaced one of...

Denise Patry Leidy, Donna Strahan

The Metropolitan Museum’s collection of Chinese Buddhist and Daoist sculpture is the largest in the Western world. In this lavish, comprehensive volume, archaeological discoveries and scientific testing and analysis serve as the basis for a reassessment of 120 works ranging in date from the fourth to the twentieth century, many of them previously unpublished and all of them newly and beautifully photographed. An introductory essay provides an indispensable overview of Buddhist practices and iconography—acquainting us with the panoply of past, present, and future Buddhas, bodhisattvas, monks and arhats, guardians and adepts, pilgrims and immortals—and explores the fascinating dialogue between Indian and Chinese culture that underlies the transmission of Buddhism into China. In addition to detailed individual discussions of fifty masterpieces—a heterogeneous group including portable shrines carved in wood, elegant bronze icons, monumental stone representations, colorful...

Herbert Read

Drawing on the knowledge of a lifetime of study, and the understanding of one who himself participated in the creative adventure of modern art, the late Sir Herbert Read traces the development of modern sculpture from Rodin to the present day and brings order into the apparently chaotic proliferation of styles and techniques during this period. Формат: 15 см х 21 см.

Frances David Whittemore

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