Books of Sculpture, American

  • Michael Lucero: Sculpture 1976-1995
    By Mark Richard Leach, Barbara J. Bloemink, Michael Lucero

    In my case , Chris [ Daniels ] makes the pots for me under my complete supervision . He is able to skillfully throw my forms as I see them . It's not a collaboration . It would be different if Chris insisted on a very personal throwing ...

  • Purely Conceived: The Fundamental Forms of Richard Beckman and Charles Parkhill
    By Richard Beckman, Charles Parkhill, Polk Museum of Art

    A documentation of the exhibition of sculptures by Richard Beckman and Charles Parkhill held at Polk Museum of Art. Full color photographs with artist bios and exhibition checklist.

  • Beverly Pepper: Palingenesis 1962-2012
    By Linda Thompson, Beverly Pepper, Joseph Antenucci Becherer

    Beverly Pepper: Palingenesis 1962-2012

  • Michael Lucero: Sculpture 1976-1995
    By Mark Richard Leach, Barbara J. Bloemink, Lucy R. Lippard

    While at first glance his work appears to be a vigorous example of contemporary ceramic sculpture with a background in 1960s California art and a foreground in New York eclecticism, in fact his figurative forms borrow liberally and wittily ...

  • James Croak
    By Thomas McEvilley

    With more than 100 illustrations documenting the artist's development over the past two decades, the book follows his experiments with Minimalism - an approach that he revisited with his Window series - his examinations of American society ...

  • Albert Wein: An American Modernist
    By David Bernard Dearinger

    Albert Wein: An American Modernist

  • Nancy Cohen: By Feel, May 18 - June 23, 2012
    By Nancy Cohen, N.Y.), Lisa Jaech

    Nancy Cohen: By Feel, May 18 - June 23, 2012

  • David Smith: Form in Color
    By Michelle White, Peter Stevens, Neil Wenman

    For David Smith (19061965), widely considered one of the foremost American abstract expressionist sculptors of the 20th century, there was no conceptual boundary between mediums.

  • Calder: From the Stony River to the Sky
    By Jessica Holmes, Susan Braeuer Dam

    Preface / Manuela & Iwan Wirth -- Foreword / Alexander S.C. Rower -- For the open air / Susan Braeuer Dam -- More than beautiful : politics and ritual in Calder's domestic items / Jessica Holmes

  • Richard Serra: Sculpture
    By Richard Serra, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind E. Krauss

    Richard Serra: Sculpture

  • Louise Bourgeois: The Spider and the Tapestries
    By Louise Bourgeois

    Louise Bourgeois' tapestry and needlepoint work deals with reparation in both a literal and metaphorical sense. In many of the works, fragmented tapestries are pieced together and repaired to create new sculptural forms.

  • Anglo-American Exchange in Postwar Sculpture, 1945–1975
    By Rebecca Peabody

    56 R. Krauss, Terminal Iron Works: The Sculpture of David Smith (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1971), p. 62. 57 Ibid., p. 3. 58 A. M. Wagner, Mother Stone: The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture (New Haven: Yale University Press, ...

  • Voulkos: The Breakthrough Years
    By Glenn Adamson, Andrew Perchuk, Barbara Paris Gifford

    While Voulkos' work has most often been discussed in relation to the practice of ceramics, the writers in this book explore the artist's work through the scope of art history and in a contemporary light.

  • Robert Indiana: Sculptures
    By Robert Indiana

    This elegant volume is a comprehensive examination of the career of American artist Robert Indiana (b. 1928), most famous for Love, icon of the 1960s.

  • Three Fragments of a Lost Tale: Sculpture and Story
    By David Pagel, John Frame

    They inhabit a curious and complex universe and act together to tell a fragmented tale in a unique idiom. The book delves into this visionary world through Frame’s photographs of his sculptural pieces, stage settings, and vignettes.

  • John Chamberlain: Choices
    By Susan Davidson, John Chamberlain

    Amassing a body of work that could not be ignored, Chamberlain has been clumsily shoehorned into a variety of ill-fitting categories. Perhaps the most fertile of these is the retroactive link with Abstract Expressionism.