Sculpture

Celebrating a century of art: Creativity and Connection features one hundred works from the colle Celebrating a century of art: Creativity and Connection features one hundred works from the collection of Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG) in Bethlehem, PA. With reflective essays accompanying each selection, the book weaves together history with fresh community perspectives on the museum’s collection, now spanning over 20,000 objects.  

Alexander Girard’s Imagined Worlds examines a modern design luminary whose collection of  global folk art and vernacular forms informed his expansive design practice. The book focuses on the Museum of International Folk Art, its displays and archival collections, and Girard’s Santa Fe years, as a locus for the designer-collector’s wide-ranging practices.  

Antonio Canova invented a new genre with his "Ideal Heads". They were intended as gifts for close friends and persons he admired as an expression of his affection and gratitude. Starting from the famous bust "La Riconoscenza", this magnificent large-format volume offers an impressive survey of these unique expressions of friendship.

Since the late 1960s, Anselm Kiefer has made art that explores the profound depths of human history. For his first American retrospective in twenty years, he takes the river as a metaphor for the flux of life and passage of time. Breathtaking new landscapes join iconic works to celebrate the achievements of his nearly sixty-year career.    

More artist’s book than monograph, this volume traces the exciting interplay between Iman Issa’s (b. 1979) objects, photos , text and video. Is an artwork at the mercy of the viewer’s interpretation, and does its meaning change accordingly? Can art in turn shape perception, or even change memory itself?

One of the most outstanding male nudes from the Mannerist period – Giambologna’s bronze statuette Mars (ca. 1570) is among the most impressive depictions of the god of war. It unites ancient ideals with artistic innovation. This symbol of sovereignty is masterfully realized in the powerful appearance of the statuette.

Her love: playing with colour and form. Her approach: large-format image grounds cut with a milling machine that Ana Kostova (b. 1995) sands and paints by hand. Unique in technique, unique in effect – precise, brightly coloured, richly varied. At times more of a painting, at other times a sculpture, or even a kind of screen standing in the room. These impressive “cutouts” are not easily forgotten.    

For fifty years, American artist Linda Lighton has created a powerful body of subversive ceramic sculptures that explore desire in all its complex forms. This monographic catalogue marks the first substantial survey of her pioneering work, which uses wit and seduction as conceptual weaponry to mine the relationship between sex, power, and politics.  

Much has been written about Heinz Mack, but this book truly stands out. Recounting his life through the pen of Robert Fleck, the artist himself gives us deep insights into the motivations and goals of his artistic work – almost as if we were sitting in conversation with this fascinating and renowned figure.  

How are design products presented? How do designers, photographers, graphic artists and companies work together? This publication visualises the creative collaboration of various actors from these fields, highlighting classics of design, photography, fashion and the graphic arts by Otl Aicher, Martin Margiela, Lucia Moholy, Ettore Sottsass, Wilhelm Wagenfeld and many more.