Sculpture

This essays and the following translation were published in1880 as a volume in Trubner's Oriental Series. That volume contained, further,the beginning of a much longer work, namely the translation of the so-calledJataka. This is a collection of more than 550 folklore tales whichforms part of the Bud... More

The breathtaking array of sculpture that for centuries has dazzled visitors to the Indian subcontinent is extremely well represented in the collection of the Los Angeles Counrty Museum of Art. This volume covers an enormous span of time, roughly from 500 B.C. to A.D. 700, as it catalogues half of th... More

For the past ten years, Birch has been documenting the African American culture of his native New Orleans in large-scale sculpture and drawings that emphasise body language, dress codes, and everyday rituals. His guileless polychrome sculptures evoke both social history and emotion. His use of talis... More

Provides in great detail the forms and accurate measurements of all varieties of Indian sculpture.... More

Indian Sculpture & Iconography is a rare book which gives in great detail the form and accurate measurements of all varieties of Indian sculpture, along with their underlying spiritual vision and philosophy. This information is based on the ancient sculptural text... More

This is one of the first comprehensive historical surveys of the manifold tradition of pictorial nar ration in India from ancient times to the present day. Contributors discuss early Buddhist narrative sculpture, aspects of narrative in Indian miniat ure painting, as well as later narrative folk for... More

The aim of this book is to identify and assess the distinctive styles of five important ancient Greek sculptors. By using the most recent archaeological evidence and reevaluating both the ancient literary sources and earlier scholarly literature, the international group of authors whose essays appea... More

Fully illustrated catalogue of the remarkable sculptures from the great stupa at Amaravati in south east India, which were brought to the British Museum in 1880. Dating predominantly from the second and third centuries AD, they provide a marvellous demonstration of Buddhist art and iconography. Us... More

This book traces an important strand in the intellectual history of the West from the Renaissance to the present. During this period, consciousness of the remains of the past - particularly the monuments of classical antiquity and, in the nineteenth century, impressive Romanesque and Gothic structur... More

Dynastic Commemoration and Imperial Portraiture in the Julio-Claudian Period examines the production of Julio-Claudian dynastic imagery from ca. 31 B.C. to 68 A.D., charting the varying perceptions of the first Imperial family in both Rome and the provinces. This study also includes historical accou... More

Richly illustrated with photographs and line drawings this book is written in a clear and simple way which will enable the reader to invest wisely and obtain the greatest pleasure from collecting Oriental Art. Ex-libris. Hardbound,Used Book... More

This volume brings together on one platform 'high' gallery-oriented art and popular sculptural practices, the latter produced in specific socio-politico-religious contexts. It also features a portfolio of the works of twenty-seven prominent sculptors with excerpts from the writings of art critics an... More

The Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum is an international project with the objective of publishing all known information about Etruscan mirrors. The Cambridge volume is the first British fascicle to appear. It provides a detailed account of the ancient Etruscan bronze mirrors in the collections of Cambri... More