Includes technical support for abstract or figure work, armatures, tiles, hand building by coil, pinch, potter's wheel, research directions, recycling papers, mixing art studio batches, casting, outdoors, firing in kilns, or air set options, finishes and glazes, recipes, classroom, and an index.

The power of sculpture, form, volume and space is sensitively explored in this wide-ranging study. Featuring discussions of many famous sculptors: Michelangelo, Canova, Rodin, Brancusi, Picasso, Hepworth and Bernini. Many contemporary artists are discussed, including installation and performance artists (Catherine Elwes, Karen Finley, Carolee Schneemann), and women sculptors such as Alice Aycock,

In the last four decades the parameters of sculpture have shifted inexorably. Now, with the rise of artists like Jake & Dinos Chapman and Marc Quinn, the boundaries are even broader. Norbert Lynton's authoritative text investigates the many different approaches employed by British sculptors today.

Revised and updated, this volume of Pope-Hennessy's guide to Italian sculpture covers the period from 1150 to 1400. The sculptors whose work is dealt with include Nicola and Giovanni Pisano and Lorenzo Ghiberti. The monuments illustrated include the Baptistery doors at Florence.

A new approach to the history of Greek portraiture by focusing on portraits without names.

Organized by walking tours and illustrated throughout with maps, drawings, and plans, this book covers Rome's ancient sites, and includes the major monuments in a large area outside Rome proper but within easy reach, such as Ostia Antica, Palestrina, Tivoli, and the many areas of interest along the ancient Roman roads.

This book accompanies an exhibition of new works by Long that span the variety of media he employs, including photographs, sculptures, and mud and text works made directly on the gallery walls.

A photographic portrait of the Medici chapel by Michelangelo. This book also describes the historical background to the chapel, essentially the Medici's family mausoleum, and explains how the concept changed over the 15 years Michelangelo worked on it.

A study of the mysterious stone carvings of naked females exposing their genitals on medieval churches all over the British Isles.

Richard Wilson was born in London in 1953. Descended on one side from a line of builders and on the other of artists, his work often comes closer to engineering or even architecture than it does to traditional sculpture. Typically he transforms the viewer's environment into something unsettling and strange by the interventions he makes, whether in the internal space of a gallery, the structure of

Glamorous Movie Star Paper Dolls and Costumes.

A retrospective survey of Andy Goldsworthy's early work that covers the fourteen years between 1976 and 1990. It embraces not only photographs of his ephemeral works, but also some of his earliest permanent sculptures constructed of stone and earth, as well as drawings for monumental sculpture projects in the landscape.

This title concerns the work of artist Carole Hodgson whose materials have ranged from bronze, glass and gouache on paper to cellulose fibre and concrete. Her influences have been equally eclectic, including ancient Greek sculpture, the Welsh landscape and Edwin Smith's photographs of mantlepieces.

Rain gods and their relatives developed out of an earlier tradition of larger hollow clay figurines, the earliest of which was collected at Tesuque Pueblo in 1879. They continue to be produced at Tesuque Pueblo to this day, constituting the longest continuous figurative art tradition in the Southwest. This book traces the evolution of the rain god from tourist art to Indian self-identity and self-

This work examines the radical changes that transformed sculpture between 1890 and 1918.

This sumptuous book brings a new dimension to woodturning. Working with native sycamore and beech, rather than strongly coloured exotic timbers, inspired Liz and Michael O'Donnell to explore unusual ways of adding colour and character to their work. The range of techniques used is impressive: Carving * Routering * Inlay * * Staining with water-based colour * Charring * Bleaching * Sandblasting * *

The definitive book of Elvis' extraordinary sense of style - from sensational showman to sexy civilian - 'Elvis Fashion' will be the first to go through Elvis' closet, now housed at Graceland. The 2,600 costumes in the Graceland collection, including 86 stage pieces, demonstrate Elvis's fantastic, flamboyant taste in clothes.