Govan and Its Early Medieval Sculpture (Art/Architecture)
On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capital's automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on the street's opposite end thrives the Grand Rue Galerie, a working studio of assembled art and sculptures wrought from the refuse. Established by artists Andre Eugene and Celeur in the late 1990s, the...
D'Un Jugement a l'Autre (Culture Et Societe Medievales, #25)
by M Angheben
History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura, CA. 150 Bce - 100 Ce
by S Rhie Quintanilla
This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis and chronology of the earliest known stone sculptures from the north Indian city of Mathura, dating prior to the famous Kushan period. It includes numerous new attributions of objects based primarily on epigraphic and visual analysis. The sculptures attributable to these pre-Kushan periods reveal new evidence for the reasons behind the emergence of the anthropomorphic image of the Buddha at Mathura, the predominance of a heterodox sect of Jai...
Dai Palazzi Assiri Immagini Di Potere Da Assurnasirpal II Ad Assurbanipal (IX-VII SEC Ac) (Studia Archaeologica, #76)
Greek Personality in Archaic Sculpture (Martin Classical Lectures, #11)
by George Karo
This book aims to provide a wealth of visual imagery for ideas and inspiration. This collection of amazing images has been gathered over the last 10 years, showing details of surface textures of everything from rust and wood to lichen and old sails, and has been divided up into themes to make it more accessible. The author has captured fascinating aspects of both natural and man-made things otherwise overlooked, showing the reader their hidden qualities. Elements of skips, old paint, driftwood a...
The Olympia Master and his Collaborators (Monumenta Graeca et Romana, #6)