Product Description: Sculpture - From Antiquity to the Present Day "Text and illustrations form a remarkable whole, on a theme which has never been subjected to such a precise synthetic study." -Beaux Arts Magazine, Paris Ranging from ancient to contemporary sculpture, this book is the first study of the history of sculpture to present such an original and comprehensive approach...read more

Product Description: This survey of sculpture from the Renaissance to the late-20th century looks at a variety of work, from Donatello and Michelangelo to Joseph Beuys and Jeff Koons. It illustrates the function and shifts in sculpture from Humanism to the 20th century.

Product Description: The illustrations in this book foster an appreciation of world sculpture, but they also explain historical themes concerning patterns of imagery and meaning, the role of politics and devotion, and the signs of modernity in the late Gothic period. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the history of oil painting, examines how painting techniques have changed over five centuries, and describes the work of the most accomplished artists