Carvings: artworks books

506 books were found.

The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of Making

The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of Making

Author: David Esterly ,  Jenny Uglow
ISBN: 9780715655245
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Republished to meet the resurgent interest in wood arts and craft, an inspiring reflection on creativity and mastery...  Read More >>

Sugar Skulls

Sugar Skulls

Author: Igloo Books
ISBN: 9781837714704
Format: Paperback
$28.44

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Python Spirit on the Baga Coast: A Scientific and Art Historical Investigation

Python Spirit on the Baga Coast: A Scientific and Art...

Author: Frederick John Lamp
ISBN: 9791254600443
Format: Hardback
$175.00

This volume is a multi-vocal, inter-disciplinary, examination of Baga culture and specifically the performance of...  Read More >>

Souls: Masks from Leinuo Zhang African Art Collection

Souls: Masks from Leinuo Zhang African Art Collection...

Author: Marco Riccòmini
ISBN: 9791254600450
Format: Hardback
$79.99

This volume introduces and describes sixteen African masks belonging to the collection of Leinuo Zhang, a young...  Read More >>

Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America

Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America...

Author: Cheryl Claassen
ISBN: 9781789259292
Format: Paperback
$130.00

Offers new insights into the wide-ranging temporal and geographical evidence for rituals in Eastern North America....  Read More >>

Knowledge Within: Treasures of the Northwest Coast

Knowledge Within: Treasures of the Northwest Coast

Author: Caitlin Gordon-Walker ,  Pam Brown
ISBN: 9781773270999
Format: Hardback
$89.99

Knowledge Within: Treasures of the Northwest Coast looks into seventeen of the numerous sites in the Pacific Northwest...  Read More >>

Dempsey Bob: In His Own Voice

Dempsey Bob: In His Own Voice

Author: Dempsey Bob ,  Sarah Milroy
ISBN: 9781773271613
Format: Hardback
$72.99

Dempsey Bob: In His Own Voice is based on the first full-scale solo museum exhibition of this extraordinary Tahltan-Tlingit...  Read More >>

A General History of Chinese Art: From the Qin Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties

A General History of Chinese Art: From the Qin Dynasty...

Author: Xifan Li
ISBN: 9783110789287
Format: Paperback
$500.00

This volume studies the evolution of Chinese art during the Qin and Han Dynasties, The Three Kingdoms, Eastern and...  Read More >>

The Bari Statuary of the Upper Nile

The Bari Statuary of the Upper Nile

Author: Dominik Remondino ,  Jean-Baptiste Sevette
ISBN: 9788874399673
Format: Hardback
$95.00

This book presents the roughly 63 statues of the Bari tribe that are known today and provides both historical context...  Read More >>

Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon

Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon...

Author: Cheryl Finley
ISBN: 9780691241067
Format: Paperback
$62.99

How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of black resistance, identity, and remembrance...  Read More >>

The Nayika and Kama: She Takes Her Pleasure

The Nayika and Kama: She Takes Her Pleasure

Author: Alka Pande
ISBN: 9789354472381
Format: Hardback
$43.96

‘The Nayika in her different moods animates ancient and medieval art, poetry and drama… Her desire for physical...  Read More >>

A Printed Icon in Early Modern Italy: Forli's Madonna of the Fire

A Printed Icon in Early Modern Italy: Forli's Madonna...

Author: Lisa Pon (Southern Methodist University, Texas)
ISBN: 9781107491113
Format: Paperback
$59.49

In this book, Lisa Pon considers a cascade of moments in the cultural biography of the town of Forli's miraculous...  Read More >>

Antoni Clavè: L’esprit du guerrier

Antoni Clavè: L’esprit du guerrier

Author: Silvana Editoriale
ISBN: 9788836652075
Format: Hardback
$75.04

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Burnished: Zulu Ceramics between Rural and Urban South Africa

Burnished: Zulu Ceramics between Rural and Urban South...

Author: Elizabeth Perrill
ISBN: 9780253061874
Format: Paperback
$57.95

When Zulu women potters innovate or move to a more urban setting, they are asked why they have abandoned tradition....  Read More >>

Headrests of Southern Africa: The architecture of sleep - KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini and Limpopo

Headrests of Southern Africa: The architecture of sleep...

Author: Bruce Goodall ,  Frédéric Zimer
ISBN: 9788874399642
Format: Hardback
$155.00

For the first time African headrests are brought to life with detailed information on their carvers, and the stories...  Read More >>

Kuyu

Kuyu

Author: Anne-Marie Benezech
ISBN: 9788874399154
Format: Paperback
$69.99

In Kuyu, part of the Visions of Africa series, the reader will find a wide range of authentic objects belonging...  Read More >>

Max Schanz: Spielzeug Gestalten im Erzgebirge

Max Schanz: Spielzeug Gestalten im Erzgebirge

Author: Sabine Rommel ,  Mathias Zahn
ISBN: 9783897906501
Format: Paperback
$100.91

The leaping deer from the range of wooden toys from the Seiffen region is an international symbol in the gleaming...  Read More >>

Tim Pomeroy

Tim Pomeroy

Author:
ISBN: 9781838472641
Format: Hardback
$77.63

A beautifully illustrated essay and catalogue of the work of Tim Pomeroy, sculptor  Read More >>

Ernst Gamperl: Dialogue

Ernst Gamperl: Dialogue

Author: Ulrike Spengler ,  Achim Heine
ISBN: 9783897906396
Format: Hardback
$84.99

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Scratch Art: Around The World

Scratch Art: Around The World

Author: Igloo Books
ISBN: 9781800226845
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Around the World is an amazing globe-trotting travel book, mixing journal entries, fun facts and information, plus...  Read More >>

An Engraved Landscape - Volumes 1 and 2: The rock carvings of the Wadi al-Ajal, South West Libya

An Engraved Landscape - Volumes 1 and 2: The rock carvings...

Author: Tertia Barnett
ISBN: 9781900971379
Format: Paperback
$116.44

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Weapons and Tools in Rock Art: A World Perspective

Weapons and Tools in Rock Art: A World Perspective

Author: Ana M. S. Bettencourt ,  Manuel Santos-Estévez
ISBN: 9781789254907
Format: Hardback
$175.00

Analysis of the subjective and metaphorical value of weapons and tools in rock art.  Read More >>

Box of Delights: Wood Engravings from the Ashmolean Collection

Box of Delights: Wood Engravings from the Ashmolean...

Author: Anne Desmet
ISBN: 9781910807385
Format: Paperback
$25.88

The well respected wood Engraver, Anne Desmet, selects 45 of her favourite wood engravings from the Ashmolean collection....  Read More >>

Memory and Medieval Tomb

Memory and Medieval Tomb

Author: Elizabeth Valdez Del Alamo ,  Carol Stamatis Pendergast
ISBN: 9781138722798
Format: Paperback
$67.99

This book explores the ways in which medieval Christians sought to memorialize the deceased: with tombs, cenotaphs,...  Read More >>

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