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1) The snail
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Language
English
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"Isamu Noguchi is one of the most important sculptors of all time. This is his story. Noguchi was a Japanese American artist who gave the world light. But the world was not so giving in return. Growing up mixed-race, born in the United States and raised in Japan, Noguchi found himself perceived as an outsider who did not belong in either country. Unable to identify fully as either Japanese or American, he turned to his art to shape, hold, and create...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a distinguished career since the mid-1970s, Tony Cragg has produced a strikingly diverse range of sculptures in the widest variety of materials. His prolific output embraces organic and industrial creations, abstract and near-figurative images, delicate, powerful, immediate and yet elusive forms. The sculptor, he says, "looks for all the forms that don't exist." Filmed in the UK and Germany, where Tony Cragg has lived since the early 1980s, this...
Author
Publisher
Pelican Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From the Japanese-American internment camps to the creation of the San Francisco School of the Arts, Ruth Asawa's life journey is one filled with challenges and obstacles turned into triumphs through perseverance and a unique vision. -- Provided by publisher
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An internationally acclaimed artist, Antony Gormley is best known for his monumental sculpture Angel of the North. This earth-bound figure with its massive wings shares with all of Gormley's work a preoccupation both with the human form and with our shared spiritual potential. Antony Gormley's early lead and iron figures were cast from his own body. They demand a physical and emotional response, but they also raise profound philosophical questions...
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Language
English
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"Jack Shanley is a well-known New York artist, charming and vain, who doesn't mean to plunge his family into crisis. His wife Deb gladly left behind a difficult career as a dancer to raise the two children she adores. In the ensuing years, she has mostly avoided coming face-to-face with the weaknesses of the man she married. But then an anonymously sent package arrives in the mail: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling Jack's...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Artists Dalziel + Scullion have worked together since 1993, based in the remote north east of Scotland. Using photography, video, sculpture, sound and installation, they have created a collection of work that is recognised for its distinctive vision and sensitivity to its context and the environment. They are well known for their site-specific works, which include important public commissions, such as Horn, the giant stainless steel sculpture sited...
12) Inside Australia
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On a vast salt lake surrounded by red earth, British sculptor Antony Gormley embarks on an installation that awakens a small Goldfields town in remote Western Australia. Directer: Hugh Brody. Executive Producer: Brian Beaton. Producer: Jody Nunn.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Gavin Turk is a leading figure in British contemporary art. His 1991 degree show work Cave, a blue ceramic plaque commemorating his occupancy of a studio, and Pop, the waxwork figure of himself as Sid Vicious, are among the iconic artworks of the 1990s. His "self-portrait" signatures and his finely crafted sculptures of everyday objects (such as cardboard boxes cast in bronze) bring the commonplace into an art space and challenge the viewer to engage...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Rachel Whiteread has created some of the most remarkable and resonant public sculptures of recent years. House (now demolished) cast in concrete the interior of a terraced house in London's East End. Holocaust Memorial is a moving memorial in Vienna to the victims of the holocaust in Austria. Yet she also frequently works on a domestic scale, casting in plaster and resin the spaces inside, around and beneath furniture, floors and staircases. Her art...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Richard Deacon is widely regarded as one of the principal British sculptors, best known for his innovative use of open form and his interest in materials and their manipulation. For more than two decades, Deacon has created unique sculptures in a wide range of materials such as laminated wood, polycarbonate, leather, cloth and ceramic. Working on both a domestic and monumental scale, his structures combine organic and biomorphic forms with elements...
18) Stalemate
Author
Series
Eve Duncan novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Description
While working on determining the identity of a murdered child, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is given a reconstruction assignment by a ruthless and sinister man who is willing to ensure her cooperation by any means necessary.
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