Author: Ronald D. YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Methods for Modern Sculptors
Author: Ronald D. YoungMaterials and Processes of Contemporary Sculpture
Author: Mahmoud FaragPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527545806
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Creating a successful sculpture requires an imaginative concept and a sound design that utilize the potential and avoid the limitations of the material and the process used in making it. Prior to a few decades ago, most sculptors were restricted to carving stone and wood or casting plaster, ceramics and bronze for their creations. Contemporary sculptors, however, are no longer bound by the limitations of these traditional materials and processes, and can now create works in sizes, forms and textures that could not have been achieved previously. Many modern sculptures are now made from materials ranging from steel and aluminum to plastics and composites using processes ranging from welding and adhesive bonding to molding and 3D printing. To fully utilize the full potential of such new materials, the sculptor needs to understand their points of strength, their limitations, and the most effective way of shaping them to achieve a given design. Although this book is written by a materials engineer, the subject matter is presented from the point of view of the sculptor with emphasis on the strengths and weaknesses of different materials, their resistance to weather conditions, natural color and possible surface textures, possible methods of shaping and joining, tools and equipment needed, and safety measures to take. Whenever possible, case studies are used to illustrate the sequence of processes and the cost elements involved in shaping a given material to create an actual work of sculpture.
Methods for Modern Sculptors
Author: Ronald D. YoungBeyond Modern Sculpture
Author: Jack BurnhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sculpture
Author: Cleo KuhtzPublisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
ISBN: 168048365X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Looking at a work of art, like listening to music, becomes a rewarding experience only if the senses are alert to the qualities of the work and to the artist's purpose that brought them into being. The language of sculpture must be learned. In this in-depth study, readers examine the materials, tools, methods, styles, and practices that are involved in sculpting and many of the techniques that have been used by accomplished artists who have contributed to sculpture as a fine art, from the marble gods of Phidias to the mobiles by Alexander Calder.
Passages in Modern Sculpture
Author: Rosalind E. KraussPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262610339
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Studies major works by important sculptors since Rodin in the light of different approaches to general sculptural issues to reveal the logical progressions from nineteenth-century figurative works to the conceptual work of the present.
The Artist's Handbook of Materials & Techniques
Author: Ralph MayerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780774028851
Category : Artists' materials
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Meaning of Modern Sculpture
Author: Reginald Howard WilenskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Modeling the Head in Clay
Author: Bruno LucchesiPublisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0823030997
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Creative techniques step-by-step. This book offers the reader an opportunity to watch one of our foremost contemporary sculptors at work, to see not just highlights of the creative process, but every step from beginning to end. In order to recreate the immediacy of an actual workshop situation, Bruno Lucchesi takes a single life-size head through all the stages of roughing in, modeling, refining the surface, and finishing and texturing, so that the reader can see exactly how he positions and models every detail.
Sculpture
Author: Louis SlobodkinPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486229607
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Offers advice on using tools and constructing armatures as well as shaping human figures, portrait heads, and bas reliefs from clay, plaster, wood, stone, and metal