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3) Scrap
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Discover the vast and strangely beautiful places where things go to die and meet the people who collect, restore, and recycle the world's scrap. SCRAP is a love letter to the things we use in our daily lives. This cinematic documentary tells the stories of people who have deep connections to objects that have reached their end of life. The stories convey a deeper environmental and human message about our relationship to things, the sadness we feel...
4) Square
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When his friend Circle asks him to do her portrait after praising him as an artistic genius, Square struggles to carve her likeness from a stone block.
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"The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship--like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor--April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around...
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In the early 1960s Anthony Caro led a revolution in sculpture in Britain. His abstract steel constructions, often painted in bold colours, forged a new and internationally influential sculptural language. In the years since his fertile and diverse practice has consistently challenged and extended what sculpture is, and what it might be. At the age of 80, Anthony Caro remains intensely active, working each day in his studio and overseeing every detail...
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Gereon Krebber’s proposal for a monumental and expensive aluminium object called Tin won the 2003 Jerwood Sculpture Prize. Shot over more than a year, this film follows the creation, casting and placing of the final sculpture. Sitting in the elegant country house garden at Ragley Hall, Tin suggests a kitchen container or a hamburger and yet is at the same time defiantly abstract. Krebber is a young sculptor from Germany who studied at the Royal...
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Often using subjects which lie on the border of science and philosophy, Conrad Shawcross's structural and often mechanical sculptures, question empirical, ontological and philosophical systems ubiquitous within our lives. While at first appearing rational and functional, his often complex mechanised systems in the end deny all rational function and so the viewer is forced down philosophical and metaphysical avenues to deduce a 'rasion d'etre'. From...
14) Alexander Calder
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Alexander Calder is the definitive portrait of one of the pre-eminent artists of the 20th century, and the inventor of an art form, the mobile. This acclaimed film shows Calder at work in his studio and never-before-seen archival films and photographs. It includes contemporary shooting of dozens of works, and features interviews with Arthur Miller, Ellsworth Kelly, I.M. Pei, Brendan Gill, Marla Prather, David Ross, Calder's daughters and grandson,...
15) Vaastu Marabu
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The Vishwakarmas, the holders of the architectural and artistic heritage in India, have maintained the skill and the theoretical basis essential for designing and executing almost all aspects of the man-made environment.Vaastu Marabu documents the theory and practice of the Vaastu tradition of Indian art, architecture, craft and design.
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Stanley Park, Vancouver, September 2014. A fourteen-foot bronze-cast cedar sculpture is being erected. Dignitaries from all levels of government are present, including leaders of the Coast Salish First Nations and representatives from Portugal's Azores Islands. Luke Marston, carver/artist, supervises as his three-year project is revealed to the world. The sculpture-titled Shore to Shore-depicts Luke's great-great-grandparents, Portuguese Joe Silvey,...
17) Paper Sculpture
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Paper is perfect for drawing and writing, but what happens when this 2-D material is given a 3-D twist? Budding artists will love creating paper sculptures with this fun book, from crinkly trees to slithery snakes. Simple step-by-step instructions ensure readers can fly through projects, such as crafting their own pterodactyls. Photographs of each step, a materials list, and helpful hints ensure each craft is accessible and fun. Using household supplies,...
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This detailed overview traces the story of western sculpture from its beginnings to the present day, passing through the Aegean, classical Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, Romantic, and Modern periods along the way. The text explains how Western sculpture evolved over time as it adapted to changing cultural contexts. All the while, the book also highlights influential sculptors and key works. Rich in detail, highly...
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Lo que este texto y su autor Jaime Reyes nos presenta, es un fragmento del camino creativo de José Balcells en la escultura, donde el escultor concibe la obra en relación a un nombre y los ejecutantes que la construyen están en el ejercicio de la fidelidad a la obra en su forma. Esta fidelidad es el libre some-timiento al sentido que la obra de arte propone. La palabra fidelidad aparece aquí con justeza porque sostiene a quienes están en una...
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