Sculpture: Processes and Principles

By: Rudolf Wittkower

Published July 2nd 1991 by Penguin Books (first published 1977)

Category: Arts

Pages: 288 pages

ISBN: 9780140137019

Description:
With the aid of over 180 photographs, this book studies what unites and separates sculptors across the centuries. It looks at the masters of Archaic Greece, the Middle Ages, through the great names of Michelangelo, Cellini and Bernini to Rodin, Brancusi and Henry Moore. By studying their working methods and techniques, the author discloses their artistic ideas and convictions, thereby opening up new avenues of approach for the spectator.