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Describes the qualities of great sculpture, looks at famous works form ancient Egypt to the present, and offers tips on their appreciation.

"Shows examples of pipes, effigies, war clubs, bowls, spoons, and whistles, discusses themes and carving techniques, and looks at the place of these objects in the Indians' culture"--Amazon.com.

Philip Rawson, a distinguished academic and author, practiced as a sculptor all of his life. Sculpture, his final book, completes the trilogy begun with his classic works, Drawing and Ceramics. As in those earlier volumes, Rawson provides a clear, factual description of the underlying principles and structural techniques of the art. Although Rawson discusses sculptures from many places and periods - including Africa, Asia, Greece, Medieval and Renaissance...

Republication of a 1911 work in which the author offers step-by-step instruction on the techniques of sculpting animals, discussing topics such as anatomy, motion, measurements, framing, tools, and plaster casting.

Photographs and text examine the colossal stone art of the Olmec, a pre-Columbian civilization, covering more than one hundred masks, monuments, sculptures, adornments, and vessels, and discussing the efforts of archaeologists to study the Olmec civilization.