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How did artists progress from Egyptian sculptures (upper left of the cover) to a work such as Frishmuth's The Vine (lower right of cover)? To find out, we focus on innovations that gave the artist who created them - and all those who followed - greater power to make viewers stop, look, and think about their works. Included are more than 100 illustrations, some of whole sculptures, some of fascinating details. Who's this jargon-free book written for? Anyone who is interested in art or art history, but is daunted by thousand-page art-history textbooks or two-semester courses that cover the art of every major civilization worldwide. This 162-page volume is art history in essentials. Anyone who wants a quick refresher before visiting a museum of Western art. Sculptors, painters, and graphic artists who want a big-picture view of the development of the expressive means that are available to them. Anyone who loves competence: this book is full of thinkers who find new ways to show others their distinctive point of view. Innovators in Sculpture is a stand-alone work, but it's a perfect complement to Innovators in Painting (29 innovations, divided into 5 categories).

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At age five, I won my first writing award: a three-foot-long fire truck with an ear-splitting siren. I've been addicted to writing ever since. Today I'm an independent researcher, freelance writer, and lecturer. The challenge of figuring out how ideas and facts fit together, and then sharing what I know with others, clearly and concisely - that's what makes me leap out of bed in the morning.Janson's *History of Art*, lent to me by a high-school art teacher, was my first clue that art was more than the rock-star posters and garden gnomes that I saw in Catawissa, Pennsylvania, and that history wasn't just a series of names, dates, and statistics. Soon afterwards I read Ayn Rand's fiction and nonfiction works, and discovered that art and history - as well as politics, ethics, science, and all fields of human knowledge - are integrated by philosophy. My approach to studying art is based on Rand's *The Romantic Manifesto*. (See my review of it on Amazon.) As an art historian I'm a passionate amateur, and I write for other passionate amateurs. I love looking at art, and thinking about art, and helping other people have a blast looking at it, too. *Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan: A Historical Guide* (New York University Press, 2007), which includes 54 sculptures, was described by Sam Roberts in the *New York Times* as ""a perfect walking-tour accompaniment to help New Yorkers and visitors find, identify and better appreciate statues famous and obscure"" (1/28/2007). Every week I issue four art-related recommendations to my supporters, which have been collected in *Starry Solitudes* (poetry) and *Sunny Sundays* (painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, and more).In 2022 I published Timeline 1900-2021, whose subtitle sums up my fascination with history and culture: ""Events Worldwide, US Politics & Culture, Economics, Science & Technology, Books, Visual Arts, Architecture, Film, TV, & Music."" I've also published a series of books on Alexander Hamilton, most recently *Financial Programs of Alexander Hamilton.* My book on the Reynolds Affair earned me the designation ""National Hamilton Advocate"" from the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society.For a complete list of my writings, visit http: //diannedurantewriter.com/books-essays.

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