The term "installation" defining site-specific sculpture has in recent years established itself firmly as part of the vocabulary of contemporary visual arts. This issue of "Art & Design" demonstrates the variety of approaches undertaking by artists working in this medium. Installation is an art which grew out of the individual narratives presented ...
Installation is arguably the most original, vigorous, and fertile form of art today. No large-scale survey or festival of contemporary art would be complete without examples of installation, and it is these that usually attract the greatest attention and cause the most controversy. Yet this is the first book ever to describe the tradition and ...
Taking the V & A's Chinese collection as its starting point, this book shows how art objects were used by the Chinese in sumptuous burials, in temples, in the elegant mansions of the rich and the splendid setting of the Imperial Court. It contains sections on the uses of porcelain, laquer, jade, silk and precious metals.
A complete visual record of 7,000 years of Chinese art and craft objects interprets the cultural history of China. This stunning volume presents extraordinary objects from the Neolithic Age, through the dynasties and up to the present People's Republic era. Rose Kerr is curator of the Far Eastern Collection at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. ...
Installation is arguably the most original, vigorous and fertile form of art today. This book sets out to describe the tradition and explore the achievements and ambitions of the installation artist. Michael Archer's introduction traces the history of installation art from Duchamp's first readymade through Pop tableaux to more recent developments ...
Shows how to make simple objects using clay or home-made dough, contains projects to try, ideas to develop and examples of potters' work, past and present. Illustrated throughout in colour, a title in the new ARTS AND CRAFTS series. The linking of analytical and practical work is designed to tie in with the two Attainment Targets of the National Cu
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