Engagingly written and colorfully illustrated, The Experience of Modern Sculpture leads us to understand, and take pleasure in, the sculpture of the 20th and 21st centuries. It helps us see the different facets of modernism: the evolution of the figure, abstraction, land art, the new materials used in sculpture, and more. It shows us how modern sculpture has fascinating links to ancient art, to science, and to the world around us. Using more than 100 examples by artists ranging from Picasso and Giacometti to Oldenburg, Hesse, and Serra, the guide focuses on how these pieces of art communicate. This new approach brings fresh insights to an important area of art, and it deepens the pleasure we can get from the last hundred years of sculptural creativity.

The Experience of Modern Sculpture: A Guide to Enjoying Works of the Past 100 Years

Arts & Photography

Palmedo, Philip F.

History & Criticism

Schiffer

This handsomely illustrated book is the first monograph devoted to the work of Joel Perlman (b. 1943), an acclaimed sculptor in steel and bronze, whose works are represented in the permanent collections of AmericaGÇÖs top museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. PerlmanGÇÖs best works from the 1970s to the present day — from the austerely abstract Chevy Short (For Jeannie Day), shown at the 1973 Whitney Biennial, to the lyrical Sky Spirit, a monumental commission completed in 2004 — are depicted in here in stunning full-page photographs, most in full color. All readers with an interest in contemporary sculpture will appreciate not only the bookGÇÖs striking illustrations but also its thoughtfully written text, which relates PerlmanGÇÖs art to his life. Author Philip F. Palmedo, drawing on extensive interviews with his subject and his subjectGÇÖs colleagues, engagingly describes how each chapter of PerlmanGÇÖs life — from his early days of teaching alongside Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski in the Bennington College art department to his struggle, ultimately very successful, to establish himself in SoHoGÇÖs vibrant 1970s art scene — served to strengthen his commitment to his own abstract, Modernist aesthetic. This thoughtful narrative, which seamlessly synthesizes PerlmanGÇÖs intimate art-world anecdotes and PalmedoGÇÖs own keen critical observations, is beautifully complemented by an insightful foreword by renowned art dealer Andr+¬ Emmerich, whose gallery represented Perlman for twenty years.

Joel Perlman: A Sculptor's Journey

Individual Artists

Abbeville Press

In this thought-provoking book, Philip F. Palmedo, a former physicist who now writes on art, reveals how the two defining enterprises of humankind--art and science--are rooted in certain common instincts, which we might call aesthetic: an appreciation of symmetry, balance, and rhythm; the drive to simplify and abstract natural forms, and to represent them symbolically.Palmedo traces these instincts back to a very early time in human history--demonstrating, for example, the level of abstract thinking required to create the stone tools and cave paintings of the Paleolithic--and then forward, to the builders of the Gothic cathedrals, to Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton, to Einstein and Picasso.Illustrated with more than 125 creations of the genus Homo--from a flint hand ax chipped half a million years ago to the abstractions of Hilma af Klint and the James Webb Space Telescope--Palmedo's text leaves us with a new appreciation of the instinct for beauty shared by artists and scientists alike.

Deep Affinities: Art and Science

An abundantly illustrated, cross-cultural exploration of a near-universal category of mythical beings 
The alluring mermaids sighted by lonely mariners. The winged angels, by turns avenging and comforting, that abound in Christian art. The fearsome Minotaur of Greek mythology. Animal-headed deities, from the elephant-headed Ganesha in India to the falcon-headed Horus in ancient Egypt. An enigmatic cave painting representing a possibly shamanic figure with the hindparts of a man and the foreparts of a stag. As far back as we go in human history, we find therianthropes, or animal-human hybrids. 
In this thoughtful volume, Philip F. Palmedo surveys each of the major categories of therianthrope in turn―from animal-headed beings to merpeople to shape-shifters―with particular attention to their roles in religion, folklore, and the popular consciousness. With well-chosen color illustrations, he demonstrates how artists of all eras have shaped our conception of these mythical beings. Palmedo closes the book by theorizing about the ultimate origin and meaning of therianthropes, placing them at the nexus of our close ancestral relationship with the animal world. 
From Angels to Werewolves will fascinate anyone with an interest in myth, fantasy, or the human-animal bond.

From Angels to Werewolves: Animal-Human Hybrids in Myth and Art

Long Island, New York is the United States' most exciting emerging wine region. In an engaging style, the authors present this fascinating story as both a rich history of the region and a succinct guide to all of its established and new wineries. Lucid and authoritative chapters on grape varieties and the making of wine provide readers with the key facts they need to be knowledgeable sippers at the tasting rooms or at dinner parties. The book is profusely illustrated with Sara Matthews's photographs - in color and black and white - which bring the vineyards and this bucolic region to life.

The Wines of Long Island

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Beltrami, Edward

Matthews, Sara

Philip F. Palmedo

Edward Beltrami

Sara Matthews

Beverages & Wine

Amereon Limited

Book by Palmedo, Philip F., Beltrami, Edward

The Wines of Long Island: The Birth of a Region...

Waterline Books

An insightful look at Barrett's evolutionary works, which are inspired by his search for a synthethis between the tactile process of free modelling, the expressive gesture, and the craft of welding sheets of metal. The results are lyrical, commanding, and beautifully crafted.

Bill Barrett: Evolution of a Sculptor

Hudson Hills

Richard McDermott Miller has had a long and distinguished artistic career. His sculptures are represented in important museums and collections around the world, including the Hirshhorn Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Canton Art Institute, the Butler Institute, Japan's Hakone Museum, the National Academy of Design, Duke University and the Universities of Houston and Nebraska. His large scale commissions are on public view in Dallas, Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina. He has been honored by the American Academy, the Institute of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Design, which he served as President from 1989 to 1992. Miller's work is in the great figurative tradition of sculpture that had its origins in prehistoric times and attained transforming heights in Ancient Egypt and Greece, Renaissance Italy, and nineteenth-century Europe. Drawing his inspiration from the past, he has revitalized that tradition through a sensitive, highly skilled, and distinctly twentieth century American approach to the figure, particularly the female nude. In the words of the critic, Howard Kalish, "The animated spirit with which he manages to invest his figures enables them to express what only sculpture can and places his work in line with the best of that great tradition."

Voices in Bronze

Hicks, Eliza

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