Links

Links

Some interesting links from around the Web: information, articles, databases, suppliers, etc.

• Against Modern Art Polemical site decrying modernist sculpture. Interesting, but extremely partisan.
• Bob Speel's Second Websight Superb private site covering Victorian and Edwardian British Sculpture and Architecture in England by an expert who knows these places inside and out.
• Canova's Studio Practice Author:Hugh Honor, Monograph on Canova's techniques and business. Authoritative.
• Classic Rifflers Author:Robert Johnson, Amateur site by former professional wood carver, all about rasps and rifflers. CNC Carving by Quayola2012http://www.creativeapplications.net/featured/captives-cg-geological-formations-as-life-size-unfinished-sculptures/
• Video of W. R. Dick at work Charming video of the sculptor William Reid Dick at work c. 1920.
• Dictionary of Art A very useful source for quick information on artists and art.
• Lists of Sculptors by Nation and Period Highly ideosyncratic listings of sculptors. Good for exploring.
• Mapping of Sculpture Huge database of British and Irish Sculpture 1858-1951
• Henry Moore Brief biography of the artist.
• Punks and Professionals Author:David Getsy, By the author of Body Dubles (English New Sculpture Movement)
• Rodin, Gutenberg Project Gutenberg E-Book of Rodin
• Rodin, A Man and His Work, Gutenberg Author:Judith Cladel, A free ebook with many pictures and a discussion of Rodin's work
• Rodin's Studio Practice A short online monograph from The Victoria and Albert Museum
• Sculptor at Work Author:Carey Shafer, Video of sculptor work.
• Hoffman, Malvina John Yewell http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/03.10.99/women2-9910.html
• Sculptor at Work Author:Stijepo Gavric, Nicely made video a the pointing process.
• Sculptors at Work Video of advanced students at work.
• Sculptors of the American Renaissance Author:James F Cooper, Scholarly discussion of late 19th C. American sculpture.
• Suppliers: Tabvlarassa Italian supplier of sculpture tools.
• Suppliers: Liogier French manufacturer of the finest rasps.
• Suppliers: The Compleate Sculptor New York, General supplies, tools, for modeling, mold making, carving, etc, as well as carving stone, and wood.
• Suppliers: Trow and Holden Vermont: carving tools.
• The Problem of Form Author:Adolph von Hildebrand, Third edition in electronic form.
• This site
• F. D. Wood and A. C. Ladd Sculptors making face masks for mutilated soldiers.
• Coleman and Wood Artists making masks for mutilated soldiers.
• Piccirilli Studio Lehman College Website Artile about the famous atelier.
• Originality Author:Gilles Perrault, Philosophical discussion of the idea of originality.
• MacMonnies Frederick MacMonnies, sculptor of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at the entrance to Prospect Park.
• Liberty Recast The original model for Liberty discovered and cast for the first time.
• The Work of Art int the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Author:Walter Benjamin, The famous 1936 critical essay is at the bottom of much modern thinking about originality in art. Benjamin, a German Marxist before WWII, thought deeply about art in the new age, and affected countless thinkers of the second half of the 20th C. He committed suicide to avoid capture while fleeing the Nazis.

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