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Robert Engman: Structural Sculpture Nancy Schiffer. Over 600 color photos display sculptor Robert Engman’s beautifully curved, minimal surfaces and clean, abstract designs in bronze, steel, aluminum, and plastics. The text, organized chronologically, shows the influences, opportunities, experiences, and challenges he met. Major chapters cover his training, teaching, and sculpture. The photos reveal Engman’s developmental stages and sculptural construction. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 654 photos • 256 pp. • 978-0-7643-4229-5 • HC • $50.00 Robert Engman Sculpture: Theme and Variations Robert Engman with Nancy Porter and Anders Engman. Robert Engman’s work over the last fifty years has ranged in size frommonumental to miniature. In the last ten years, he has cast a group of 52 distinctive small sculptures, with warped planes and minimal surfaces, whose modest scale has allowed him to realize his sculptural ideas more effi- ciently • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) •209 color photos •112pp. • 978-0-7643-5275-1 • HC • $14.99 The Sculpting Book: A Complete Introduction toModeling the Human Figure Élisabeth Bonvalot. A complete guide with 10 projects provides the guid- ance and tips needed to learn to sculpt realistic figures, from face to feet. After teaching the fundamental skills, professional sculptor Bonvalot helps readers progress with a bas-relief portrait, an animal, a stand- ing nude, a bust, and a lifesize figure. Hundreds of detailed photos • 9" x 11" (228 x 279mm) • 366 color images • 144 pp. • 978-0-7643-5857-9 • HC • $24.99 1886 Catalog of the French Bronze Foundry of F Barbedienne of Paris F. Barbedienne. A reprint of the original 1886 catalog of bronzes from the House of Barbedienne, one of the foremost French foundries, is reproduced with original selling prices in French francs and dimensions, plus the line drawings that depict many of these famous works. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 208 line drawings • 96 pp. • 978-0-88740-705-5 • PB • $14.95 Antique Vienna Bronzes Joseph Zobel. Over 650 color photos display 19th- and 20th-century Vienna bronzes in the forms of birds, camels, cats, dogs, hors- es, bears, bulls, reptiles, and rodents, as well as human individuals from around the globe. The text highlights major artists and firms that produced Vienna bronzes. Values are included in the captions. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 657 color photos • 256 pp. • 978-0-7643- 2849-7 • HC • $80.00 Art Bronzes Michael Forrest. A beautiful and com- prehensive study of fine, international bronze statuary of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Over 1,100 illus- trations, 200 in color, and carefully researched text with relevant marks, inscriptions, artist signatures, dates, and foundry stamps. Over 450 artists are represented • 9" x 12" (228 x 304mm) •1100photos&drawings •493 pp. • 978-0-88740-122-0 • HC • $95.00 Art Deco Sculpture and Metalware Alfred W. Edward. Over 200 photographs and illustrations of decorative sculpture and useful metalware at the fore- front of the Art Deco movement. Art Deco’s most significant artists, as well as their predecessors and modern counterparts, are discussed, including an in- troduction to the designs of Hagenauer, WMF, the Bauhaus, Ferdinand Priess, Chiparus, Brancusi, and Brandt. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 200 color & b/w photos • 144 pp. • 978-0-88740-994-3 • HC • $37.50 Bronzes: Sculptors & Founders 1800-1930 Vol 1 Harold Berman. This four-volume set is the classic reference for commercial bronze sculptures from 1800 to 1930, showing the works of a vast array of interna- tional sculptors and dozens of founders, with pictures so clear that even small details on the sculptures are visible. Volume I has 799 photos and essays on specif- ic topics of identification and caring for bronze. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 799 photos • 224 pp. • 978-0- 88740-700-0•HC•$79.99 Bronzes: Sculptors & Founders 1800-1930 Vol 2 Harold Berman. Volume 2 has 1,025 photos of bronzes that span the rise and decline of commercial industrial foundries in Europe. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 1025 photos • 272 pp. • 978-0-88740-701-7 • HC • $79.99 Bronzes: Sculptors & Founders 1800-1930 Vol 3 Harold Berman. Volume 3 has 1,315 photographs of works by artists and foundries from throughout the international community, detailed information on the Hirsch Foundry of Paris and Brooklyn, NY, and contains important listing of Canadian sculptors. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 1315 photos • 320 pp. • 978-0-88740- 702-4 • HC • $79.99 Bronzes: Sculptors & Founders 1800-1930 Vol 4 Harold Berman. Volume 4 includes 1,735 photos, including 43 sculptures recently made by the Hirsch Foundry of Paris and Brooklyn, NewYork, fromnineteenth century molds. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 1735 photos • 400 pp. • 978-0-88740-703-1 • HC • $79.99 Bronzes of the Nineteenth Century: Dictionary of Sculptors Pierre Kjellberg. An illustrated encyclo- pedia with 1,000 photos of over 700 nineteenth centu- ry French sculptors including Rodin, Barye, d’Angers and Carpeaux, with biographies, listings of works (with size and foundry when known), museum pieces in France and elsewhere, and recent sales • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 1000 photos • 685 pp. • 978-0-88740-629-4 • HC • $150.00 A Century of American Sculpture: The Roman Bronze Works Foundry Lucy D. Rosenfeld. Over a century of castings at the Roman Bronze Works repre- sent a vast and fascinating collection of sculptures, from artists including French, Saint-Gaudens, Reming- ton, Russell, Manship, Vonnoh, Archipenko, Calder, and many more. Over 700 photographic examples (many in color) and biographical information on over 120 sculptors are included. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304mm) • 700+photos•288pp. •978-0-7643-1519-0•HC•$89.95 Catalog of the Society des Beaux Arts, Paris Society des Beaux Arts. An index lists the prices set for these pieces by the Society, there- by providing fascinating insight into the nineteenth century art market. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215mm) • 320 pictures • 94 pp. • 978-0-88740-706-2 • PB • $19.95 Direct Metal Sculpture REV Dona Z. Meilach. This revised edition retains all the techniques and inspiration of the original edition, plus new chapters update the history of direct metal sculpture over the past quarter century, including the impact of public art programs and the computer, exploring the importance of computer aided design, and the Internet for successfully marketing one’s art. • 7" x 10" (177 x 254mm) • 115 color & 475 b/w photos • 248 pp. • 978-0-7643-1254-0 • HC • $39.95 John Rogers Statuary Second Edition 2E Paul & Meta Bleier. The plaster statuary groups by John Rogers were so appealing in late Victorian America that “scarce- ly a family of reasonable means and taste did not possess one.” He offered an unrivaled transcript of the social customs and modes of furnishing for the period. This book chronicles each Rogers group with a photograph, size, patent or design date, and pertinent anecdotes. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 100 b/w photos • 224 pp. • 978-0-7643- 1301-1 • PB • $29.95 The Life and Work of Harry Bertoia: The Man, the Artist, the Visionary Celia Bertoia. The mid-cen- tury modern artist, Harry Bertoia (1915–1978), left us a rich legacy of over fifty public works. This volume, illustrated with over 200 photos, allows readers to quickly identify and appreciate Bertoia’s work. This impressive book also reveals the complex man behind the fascinating art • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 202 color & 14 b/w photos • 256 pp. • 978-0-7643-4693-4 • HC • $60.00 The World of Bertoia Nancy N. Schiffer and Val O. Bertoia. This book documents all the types of original sculptures, graphics, and commissions by Harry Bertoia and his son, Val Bertoia, from the 1950s to the present. From furniture to sound sculpture, over 500 photographs show the Bertoias’ evolution of ideas that explore the relationships of space, color, and sound. • 9"x12" (228 x 304mm) • 500 color & 200 b/w photos • 288 pp. • 978- 0-7643-1798-9 • HC • $89.95 Color Perception in Art Faber Birren. The relationship of visual perception to color expression in art is presented here in clear detail. Photographs of representative paintings, explanatory line draw- ings, and abstract, geometric color plates supple- ment the text • 8" x 8" (203 x 203mm) •17 color & 11 b/wphotos • 88 pp. • 978-0-88740-064-3 • PB • $14.99 Color: Light, Sight, Sense Moritz Zwimpfer. A classic color theory reference. Arranged to follow light from a stimulus outside the human body, through the reaction of the visual organs of the body, and ultimate- ly to the occurrence of the visual experience in the brain • 91/4" x 12" (234 x 304mm) •100s of color &b/wphotos anddiagrams•256pp.•978-0-88740-139-8•HC•$49.95 Evolution in Color Frans Gerritsen. An overview of the theories of color from antiquity to the present. An indispensable study for all who work with color, in- cluding artists, glazers, architects, decorators, design- ers, ceramic and textile artists, and the student of color theory. • 7 3/4" x 10" (196 x 254 mm) • hundreds of b/wand color illustrations • 88 pp. • 978-0-88740-143- 5 • PB • $14.95 HISTORIC SCULPTURE & SCULPTORS COLOR THEORY BACKLIST SCULPTURE & SCULPTORS • COLOR THEORY | 55