The Materials of Sculpture

By Nicholas Penny

Book Overview

This beautiful and authoritative book surveys the sculpture of many civilizations--from ancient Egypt, Greece and China to fifteenth-century Italy, nineteenth-century France and twentieth-century North America--to explain how sculpture is made. Nicholas Penny provides a basic introduction to the nature of the materials used by sculptures, examining how these were regarded as well as how they were worked in different periods and in different cultures.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300055560
• ISBN13: 9780300055566
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.9" x 10.4"