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Art of Eastern India, 300-800
University of Minnesota Press 1980; US$ 67.50Though scholars have extensive knowledge of the art that flourished during Pala rule in Eastern India (ca. 800-1200), little is known about Eastern Indian art during the preceding 500 years. This half-millennium includes the period of the Gupta dynasty an more...
Korwars and Korwar Style
De Gruyter 1968; US$ 126.00Korwars and Korwar Style : Art and Ancestor Worship in North-West New Guinea more...
Life in Bronze
Texas A&M University Press 2013; US$ 25.00A disciple of Classical sculpture in a time of pervasive abstract modernism, Lawrence M. Ludtke (1929?2007) of Houston imbued his creations with a sense of movement and realism through his attention to detail, anatomy, and proportion. As a skilled athlete who played professional baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers organization, Ludtke brought to his... more...
Of What One Cannot Speak
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 52.00Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in order to boldly reimagine the role of the visual arts. Both women are pathbreaking figures, globally renowned... more...
Egyptianizing Figurines from Delos
BRILL 2011; US$ 241.00This book investigates Hellenistic popular religion through an interdisciplinary study of figurines of Egyptian deities from Delos. The results offer a new perspective on Hellenistic reinterpretations of Egyptian religion, as well as the relationship between ?popular? and ?official? cults. more...
Escultura
Parkstone International 2011; US$ 5.00O livro Mega Square Escultura estende-se sobre um período de cerca de 23.000 anos e conta com cerca de 120 exemplos das mais belas esculturas do mundo: desde a arte pré-histórica e estátuas egípcias até as obras de Michelangelo, Henry Moore e Niki de Saint-Phalle. Ele descreve a grande variedade de materiais utilizados e a evolução de estilos durante... more...
Sculpture
Parkstone International 2011; US$ 5.00Mega Square Sculpture spans over 23,000 years and over 120 examples of the most beautiful sculptures in the world: from prehistoric art and Egyptian statues to the works of Michelangelo, Henry Moore and Niki de Saint-Phalle. It illuminates the wide variety of materials used and the evolution of styles over centuries, as well as the peculiarities of... more...
Escultura
Parkstone International 2011; US$ 5.00El volumen de Mega Square Escultura abarca más de 23.000 años y contiene más de 120 ejemplos de las esculturas más hermosas del mundo, desde el arte prehistórico y las estatuas egipcias hasta las obras de Miguel Ángel, Henry Moore y Niki de Saint-Phalle. Describe la gran variedad de materiales empleados y la evolución de los estilos a lo largo de los... more...
Skulptur
Parkstone International 2011; US$ 5.00Die Mega Square-Ausgabe Skulptur umschließt 23.000 Jahre dieser Kunstform und mehr als 120 der beeindruckendsten Skulpturen der Welt: von prähistorischer Kunst über ägyptische Statuen und Michelangelo zu Henry Moore und Niki de Saint-Phalle. Das Buch beleuchtet die große Auswahl an Werken, die Evolution von Stilen über die Jahrhunderte und die Besonderheiten... more...
Calder
Parkstone International 2011; US$ 3.50Alexander Calder was an American sculptor, born in Philadelphia in 1898 and died in 1976 of a heart attack in New York, where he had gone to open a retrospective of his work. Son of two artists, and himself a trained engineer, Calder mostly created mobiles, assembled from pieces that would move with the currents of the air, stabiles or stationary statues... more...









