Product Description: In spring 2009, Dumbarton Oaks inaugurated an occasional series of contemporary art installations intended to provide unexpected experiences and fresh interpretations of its gardens and collections. The first artist selected was the American sculptor Charles Simonds, who is well known for clay sculptures that document the wanderings of a fantastical civilization of Little People whose landscapes, architectures, and rituals have been imagined by the artist since the early 1970s...read more

Product Description: The first significant scholarly volume devoted to Goldsworthy's work in nearly twenty years and the first to underscore the permanent output of this acclaimed artist.In January 2003 British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy was invited to create a work of art for the National Gallery of Art...read more

Product Description: Both a landscape designer and a public artist, Ken Smith produces designs that range in scale from small public installations to vast parks. He is known for inventive and imaginative gardens and landscapes, some of which use little or no natural plant material...read more

Product Description: Between 1963 and 1970, Lawrence Halprin and Associates realized a quartet of public plazas in Portland, Oregon, that redefined the city and set a bold new precedent for urban landscape architecture. Dubbed the Portland Open Space Sequence and composed of the Lovejoy Fountain, Pettygrove Park, and Forecourt Fountain (later renamed Ira Keller Fountain), plus the lesser known Source Fountain, the plazas were a dynamic collage of striking concrete forms, gushing water, and alpine flora that, in their seamless mix of nature and theater, created a playful metaphorical watershed coursing through the central city...read more

Product Description: With artful composition and controlled framing--but no digital manipulation--Edgar Martins creates sublimely beautiful views of often unbeautiful sites. Minimalist nighttime beaches, forests ravaged by fires and Iceland's stark terrain have all served as subjects for his large-scale color photographs...read more

Product Description: Presents the work of the noted Mexican landscape architect Mario Schjetnan.

Product Description: “Utilizing the way in which scientists and computers see our world, drawing on images based on sonar views of the ocean floor, to aerial and satellite views of the land, I have started to create artworks that translate that technological view into sculptural forms...read more

Product Description: This book includes Brancusi, Richard Long, James Turrell and others. Updated and expanded, this fourth edition crosses boundaries of art and urban landscape planning. The book begins with an enlightening introduction tracing the historical roots of art in the landscape: Stonehenge, Indian mounds, cliff dwellings, park design from 18th-century England to modern-day golf courses...read more

Product Description: With incisive intelligence and beguiling prose, John Beardsley tells the story of about twenty-five "visionary environments" and the fiercely independent individuals who have created them in the course of the last century. Many of these handmade environments - usually the result of years of obsessive work - express profoundly personal and frequently unorthodox beliefs...read more

Product Description: Since the 19th century, the women of Gee’s Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. Beautifully illustrated with 110 color illustrations, The Quilts of Gee’s Bend includes a historical overview of the two hundred years of extraordinary quilt-making in this African-American community, its people, and their art-making tradition...read more

Product Description: Since the 19th century, the women of Gee’s Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. Beautifully illustrated with 350 color illustrations, 30 black-and-white illustrations, and charts, Gee’s Bend to Rehoboth is being·released in conjunction with a national exhibition tour including The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, and the Whitney Museum of American Art...read more

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Product Description: This book is a beautifully illustrated volum e about the 1997 Spoleto Festival, USA. It consists of essay s and photographs of the fourteen projects that made up the year''s exhibit curated by John Beardlsey who also serves as the editor ' (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This invaluable volume now includes the most recent and most interesting efforts by artists, often in collaboration with architects and city planners, to transform ravaged landscapes and desolate cityscapes into pleasure-giving parks and artworks. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Published to accompany a two-year traveling exhibition opening in March 1997 at the San Diego Museum of Art, this book is the first ever devoted to visionary American artist A.G. Rizzoli (1896-1981), whose elaborate architectural drawings are world-renowned...read more

Product Description: Comprehensive volume on the leading sculptor of influential Bay Area figurative movement. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The SBC Collection, formed by SBC Communications, Inc (formerly Southwestern Bell), reflects the intellectual and cultural trends that have influenced artists working in the United States during the 20th century. Works by many of the leading names in American art are illustrated in this book, which also contains 13 essays by scholars, critics and curators to offer an understanding of American art for both the general reader and the student of art history...read more

Briefly traces the history of the Storm King Art Center, describes the sculpture on display, and includes brief profiles of the featured artists (view table of contents)

Examines the life and work of Picasso, discussing how and why his art looks the way it does and how it relates to the artist

Discusses the origins of the folk art of Black Americans and examines the paintings, sculptures, drawings, and carvings of Black folk artists

Shows examples of drawings, paintings, and sculptures by each individual