Sculpture Foundry Booklist

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Foundry Arts

*Fine Art Metal Casting: An Illustrated Guide to Mould Making and Lost Wax Processes by Richard Rome and Hamish Young

*Bronze Sculpture Casting & Patination: Mud Fire Metal by Steve Hurst, Steve Russell

*Metal Casting: Appropriate Technology in the Small Foundry by Steve Hurst

*Metalcasting by C. W. Ammen

*The Complete Handbook of Sand Casting by C. W. Ammen

Casting Aluminum by C.W. Ammen

Casting Iron by C. W. Ammen

*Hot Metal by Wayne Potratz, University of Minnesota

Building a Gas Fired Crucible Furnace by David J. Gingery

Iron Melting Cupola Furnaces for the Small Foundry by Stephen D. Chastain

Build an Oil Fired Tilting Furnace (The Small foundry series) by Steve Chastain and Stephen D. Chastain

Metal Casting: A Sand Casting Manual for the Small Foundry, Volume 1 by Stephen D. Chastain

Metal Casting: A Sand Casting Manual for the Small Foundry, Volume 2 by Steve Chastain and Stephen D.Chastain

The Backyard Foundry (Workshop Practice Series, No. 25) by B. Terry Aspin

Gas Burners for Forges, Furnaces, and Kilns by Michael Porter

Charcoal Foundry (Build Your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap Book 1) by David J. Gingery

Castings, Second Edition (Castings) by John Campbell

Foundry Manual by United States Navy

Foundry Technology, Second Edition by Peter Beeley

SECRETS OF GREEN-SAND CASTING

Out of the Fiery Furnace: Casting Sculpture from Ceramic Shell Molds by Howard Hitchcock

*Lost-Wax Casting: Old, New, and Inexpensive Methods by Fred R. Sias, Jr., PhD

Bronze Casting: A Manual of Techniques by Guy Thomas

Foundry Work: A Practical Handbook on Standard Foundry Practice. by Burton Gray + William Stimpson

The Care of Bronze Sculpture: Recommended Maintenance Programs for the Collector by Patrick V. Kipper

Mold Making, Casting and Patina by Bruner F. Barrie

Color on Metal: 50 Artists Share Insights and Techniques by Tim McCreight and Nicole Bsullak

Patinas for Silicon Bronze by Patrick V. Kipper

Japanese Patinas by Eitoku Sugimori

The Colouring, Bronzing and Patination of Metals...by Richard Hughes

*Bronze Patination by Ron young

Anthony Caro: Bronze Sculpture November 20 - December 31, 1980

Joan Miro: The last Bronze Sculptures 1981-1983. by Gerald Peters Gallery

Isamu Noguchi: Bronze and Iron Sculpture : May 13-June 11, 1988 by Isamu Noguchi

Degas Sculptures: Catalogue Raisonné of the Bronzes by Joseph S. Czestochowski and Anne Pingeot

Extending The Artist's Hand: Contemporary Sculpture from The Walla Walla Foundry. by Anderson, Bruce, Keith Wells + Jim Dine

Metal Casting History

*Out of the Fiery Furnace: The Impact of Metals on the History of Mankind by Robert Raymond

A History of the Precious Metals from the Earliest Times to the Present by Alexander Del Mar

*The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy by Mircea Eliade

Cast-Iron Architecture in America: The Significance of James Bogardus (Norton Books) by Margot and Carol Gayle

Ancient Chinese Bronze Art: Casting the Precious Sacral Vessel by William Thomas Chase and Jung May Lee

Benin, a Kingdom in Bronze: The Royal Court Art

Bronzes: Sculptors and Founders, 1800-1930 by Harold Berman

Bronzes of the 19th Century: Dictionary of Sculptors (Schiffer Book for Collectors) by Pierre Kjellberg, Kate Loftus & Alison Levie

A Century of American Sculpture: The Roman Bronze Works Foundry by Lucy D. Rosenfeld

Portraits of the Masters: Bronze Sculptures of the Tibetan Buddhist Lineages by Donald Dinwiddie, Ramon N. Prats & others.

The Great Bronze Doors for the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels by Miles, Fogelman and Fujinami

Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections:  by Jessica Rawson

Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections (Vol 1) by Robert W. Bagley

Environmental Sculpture + Site

Robert Smithson and the American Landscape (Contemporary Artists and Their Critics) by Ron Graziani

Land & Environmental Art (Themes&Movements) by Jeffrey Kastner and Brian Wallis

Art Nature Dialogues: Interviews With Environmental Artists by John K. Grande (Author), Edward Lucie-Smith

Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art by Udo Weilacher (Author)

Land Art (Taschen) by Michael Lailach and Uta Grosenick

Land Art by Ben Tufnell

Land Art: (hardcover) by Gilles Tiberghien

Land, Art a cultural ecology handbook. by Max Andrews

Land Art: A Complete Guide To Landscape, Environmental, Earthworks, Nature, Sculpture + Installation Art by William Malpas

Land Art: A Complete Guide To Landscape, Environmental, Earthworks, Nature, Sculpture and Installation Art in the UK by William Malpas

Ecological Aesthetics: Art in Environmental Design: Theory and Practice by Heike Strewlow, Herman Prigann, Vera David

One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity by Miwon Kwon

Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art by Grant H. Kester

The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society by Lucy R. Lippard

On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place by Lucy R. Lippard

Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory by Lucy R. Lippard
Markings : Aerial Views of Sacred Landscapes by Charles Gallenkamp, Keith Critchlow, Maria Reiche, and Lucy Lippard

*Earthworks And Beyond: Comtemparary Art In the Landscape by John Beardsley

Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties by Suzaan Boettger

Site Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation by Nick Kaye

Star Axis: Where the earth meets the sky: a sculpture to observe the stars presently under construction in New Mexico by Charles Ross

Sculpture And the Garden (Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture) by Patrick Eyres and Fiona Russell

Sculptures Parks in Europe: A Guide to Art and Nature by Jimena Blázquez Abascal, Valeria Varas, and Raul Rispa

Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art by Erika Suderburg and Editor,Erika Suderburg

Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture by Brooke Barrie

A Guide to the Sculpture Parks and Gardens of America by Jane McCarthy and Laurily K. Epstein

Socrates Sculpture Park by Ivana Mestrovic and Alyson Baker

Sacred Spaces and Other Places: A Guide to Grottos and Sculptural Environments in the Upper Midwest by Lisa Stone and Jim Zanzi

The Power of Place and Human Environments by James Swan Art in Action: Nature, Creativity, and Our Collective Future by Natural World Museum and Achim Steiner. Unmarked : Peggy Phelan

Public Art Dialogues in Public Art by Tom Finkelpearl The Tilted Arc Controversy: Dangerous Precedent? by Harriet F. Senie

Public Art By The Book by Barbara Goldstein

New Land Marks : Public Art, Community, and the Meaning of Place by Penny Balkin Bach

The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design by Ronald Lee Fleming

CRITICAL ISSUES PUBLIC ART PB by Senie Hf

Plop: Recent Projects of the Public Art Fund by Susan K. Freedman, Tom Eccles, Dan Cameron, and Katy Siegel

Art and the Public Sphere by W. J. T. Mitchell

City Art: New York's Percent For Art Program by Eleanor Heartney and Adam Gopnik

Cultural Democracy: The Arts, Community, and the Public Purpose by James Bau Graves

Sculpture Overviews

Part Object Part Sculpture by Helen Anne Molesworth

The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist by Alex Potts

Modern Sculpture Reader by Jon Wood, Alex Potts, and David Hulks

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks and Ellen P. Shapiro

The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art by Martha Buskirk

Sculpture in the Age of Doubt (Aesthetics Today) by Thomas McEvilley

High Art Lite: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art, Revised and Expanded Edition by Julian Stallabrass

*A Sculpture Reader: Contemporary Sculpture Since 1980, by Glenn Harper

Conversations on Sculpture (Perspectives on Contemporary Sculpture) by Glenn Harper and Twylene Moyer

*Modern Sculpture: A Concise History (World of Art) by Herbert Read

*Sculpture since 1945 (Oxford History of Art) by Andrew Causey

Sculpture 1900-1945 (Oxford History of Art) by Penelope Curtis

*Passages in Modern Sculpture by Rosalind Krauss

The Sculptural Idea, Fourth Edition by James J.. Kelly

*The Language of Sculpture, With 155 Illustrations by William Tucker

Flesh and the Ideal: Winckelmann and the Origins of Art History by Alex Potts

Sculpture Today by Judith Collins

Unmonumental: the object in the 21^st Century by Laura Hoptman, Richard Flood, Massimiliano Gioni + Trevor Smith

Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 by Lucy Lippard

Reenchantment of Art by Suzi Gablik

Conversations Before the End of Time by Suzi Gablik

*Shaping Space: The Dynamics of Three-Dimensional Design by Paul Zelanski and Mary Pat Fisher

Sculpture: Contemporary Form and Theory (Art & Design Profile) by Andrew Benjamin

The Grove Book of Art Writing: Brilliant Words on Art from Pliny the Elder to Damien Hirst by Martin Gayford and Karen Wright

Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art by Lynne Cooke, Bice Crugier, and Grey Hilty

Installation Art

*Installation Art in the New Millennium: The Empire of the Senses by Nicolas De Oliveira, Nicola Oxley, and Michael Petry

Understanding Installation Art: From Duchamp to Holzer by Mark Rosenthal

Installation Art by Nicolas De Oliveira

Installation Art by Claire Bishop

Blurring The Boundaries by Hugh Davies

From the Center by Lucy R. Lippard

Installation Art In Close-Up (Art in Close-up) by William Malpas

The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art by Mary Anne Staniszewski

Installation & Performance Art: Photographs by Claudio Abate 1960-Now by Achille Bonito Oliva, Sol Lewitt, Gilbert & George, Claudio Abate

Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space by Brian O'Doherty and Thomas McEvilley

*The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

*The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre

Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience by Yi-Fu Tuan and Steven Hoelscher

Sculpture Process

The Sculpture Reference: Contemporary Techniques, Terms, Tools, Materials And Sculpture by Arthur Williams

*The Materials and Methods of Sculpture by Jack C. Rich

Modeling and Sculpture: A Guide to Traditional Methods by Albert Toft

Sculpture: Principles and Practice by Louis Slobodkin

Encyclopedia of Sculpture Techniques by John Mills

Magazines

Modern Casting

Public Art Review by Forecast Public Art

Cabinet

Sculpture Magazine, by International Sculpture Centre

The Crucible by Castle Fine Arts, UK

Sculptural Pursuit

Sculpture Journal

Object

Object - UK

World Sculpture News

Espace

Frieze

Flash Art International

Art in America

Artnet Insider's guide to the art market with daily news, reviews & features.

ID International Design Magazine

How an artist can change the world!

JOHN  DAVIS 

 

‘Art and Economic Development in Rural Towns’

(How an artist can change the world! Artist residencies, art outreach, sculpture parks in rural environment, philosophy, community involvement)

We are extremely fortunate that Davis will be visiting us here at Alfred on his way back from a gig at Harvard!  Please join us in welcoming him at his presentation this Thursday evening.

Thurs 15^th March 6.30 pm

Room C, Binns Mirrel Hall, NYSCC, Alfred, NY.

John Davis has dedicated his career to working in small town arts and community development, and is a nationally recognized leader on rural arts issues. Mr. Davis is an artist, philosopher, strategist and national speaker on rural arts issues and creativity, and is also an award winning visionary. His work has been featured on National Public Radio; broadcast on C-Span, and also featured in Corporate report Magazine, USA Today Magazine, The New York Times, and on the NBC Today Show.

Davis is the founder of the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center, the Great American Think-Off and the Kids Philosophy Slam. His work has resulted in the town of New York Mills twice being named one of the top 100 art towns in America, and New York Mills has been recognized as a national model for rural economic development in the arts.

Mr. Davis currently serves as the Executive Director of the Lanesboro Arts Center and National Kids Philosophy Slam. Davis resides in Lanesboro, Minnesota.

More About John Davis:  http://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2011/03/john-davis-prompts-small-towns-ponder-big-questions-and-accomplish-big-thing

Alumni Feature: Stephen Coles

Stephen Coles graduated from Alfred University with an MFA in sculpture in May 2010. Born in the United Kingdom, it was through a series of conferences and symposia based around cast iron art that led Coles, to the United States, and eventually to Alfred University. Having always had a keen interest in creative practices Coles started his artistic career by enrolling in a National Diploma in Fine Art at Arts University College Bournemouth, Bournemouth (UK). This then led to Coles studying his BFA in sculpture at The West Wales School of the Arts, Carmarthen (Wales). It was whilst studying at his BFA that he first came into contact with metal casting, and more importantly, attended the 5^th International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron art in Ironbridge (UK) in 2006. This conference instilled an appreciation of cast iron as a material within his own sculpture practice, and furthermore led to his interactions in the United States.

'Lobsters and Gentleman' Cast Bronze Iron Cupola during MFA performance at Alfred Univeristy 2010

       

Artist Statement

My work and its concurrent themes are often changing, especially when I consider the various bodies of work throughout my artistic career to date. It is true to say that in more recent investigations the work has developed more of an ambiguity. This being said there are some recurring issues that appear to underpin the work such as ideas surrounding humour, absurdity and identity.

I have always responded more to art that has tried to convey a message without preaching or approaching the subject in a condescending manner. I find that humour is one method of playing off of the publics’ emotions that can really generate a conversation, and dare I say, even bring around action albeit indirectly. 

Secondly and I feel this is far more prevalent is that of the idea of absurdity in my artwork and how I try to reflect the absurdity of the culture in which its inception has come about. After all we’re all told that our current lifestyles are unsustainable, and yet people seem happy to try to keep the status quo and ignore the white elephant (polar ice cap) in the room.  I find the whole futility of this paradox a fascinating one and if I can draw attention to it, and instill some sort of debate about it, then perhaps something may come about through those actions, otherwise I say I may as well enjoy the ride whilst it lasts.

Alumni Feature: Liz Helfer

Elizabeth Helfer graduated from Alfred University in May 2010, she was born and raised in New Durham, NH. Liz developed a love for sculpture early on, working with modeling clay and paper. Named "Most Artistic" throughout her elementary, middle, and high school years; Elizabeth attended the New Hampshire All-State Art Festival and the St. Paul's School Advanced Studies Program for Studio Art. It was her St. Paul's School experience which guided her toward a continued art education. She has continued her artistic development through her travels, including a trip to Wales representing Alfred to participate in the 6th International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art and work at Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota.

'Beauty and the Bees Bronze' 12½”x 13”x3”   2010

'Selkie'  Bronze and glass 10”x4”x3½”  2009

Artist Statement

I want my sculptures to tell a story. I began in this vein by literally translating western folklore into cast metal and glass sculpture. My artwork has grown to include personal narratives and explore the idea of location in history. Recently, I realized that the viewer’s interpretation of the story does not need to relate directly to the original. I simply want the audience to experience a sense of narrative that feels familiar and significant.

Within the realm of metal casting, I prefer to create complex patterns for the lost wax process. Although I may create several pieces related to a central theme, I prefer to use molds only once. This parallels the telling of a story, where each interpretation contains its own nuance and subtlety. When seen together the sculptures may seem to relate only through material choices. I use titles to give the viewer clues to the original story and links between sculptures.

I am beginning to look outside of metal but the casting process, from conception to product, seems fitting to the concept of history. The length of the metal casting process allows outside forces to manipulate the final product, which has interested me as the element of history beyond human control.

This past fall Elizabeth exhibited in All Fired Up: Contemporary Iron Art at the Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, WI. She is currently working on a public sculpture with cast iron elements for a sculpture walk in Rochester, NH, coming this summer. She will be back at Franconia Sculpture Park as Program Assistant in the spring. She is in the process of applying to grad school and hopes to begin her MFA studies for sculpture in fall 2012.

USUK International Iron Symposium

2012 SPRING SEMESETER INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY

Congratulations ! Bonny Crowl, soad senior and Andrew Dean school of business senior start work assisiting with the planning for USUK 2012.
USUK IRON Sculpture Symposium was founded in 1996, with a mission to provide a vital platform that pushes the bounderies of contemporary cast iron sculpture. Dialogue between artists, curators, historians and the host site is created throughout the Symposium to examine the nature of iron via discussions, presentations, sculpture exhibitions, demos, mold making, and iron pouring.

USUK facilitates this exchange of ideas and process by bringing together artists across disciplines and cultural borders for an intense residential period.

Founding Director Coral Lambert

WANT TO LEND A HAND !!  

USUK CAST IRON SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUM TO BE HELD IN SCOTLAND, UK + NEW YORK, USA

Come on by the Career Centre to Find out more on

Thurs Jan 19th @ 4.30 + 5.30pm

Two Positions Available : As an assistant marketing manager for the USUK Cast Iron Sculpture Symposium you will help oversee the production of a catalogue and website as well as assist with administration involved in the general organization and promotion of the symposium. USUK is an International Sculpture Symposium which will be held in the summer of 2012 between Salem Art Works, New York and Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Scotland.
Qualifications include marketing, design, website, administration. The successful candidate must demonstrate good organizational and communication skills as well as reliability.

PowerPoint presentation about USUK and Application Forms available at the Informational Meeting.

Senior Spotlight: Zach Stork

Artist Statement

An interest of the natural world, entropy of existence and landscape provoke my attention wherever I roam. Wonderment of what is happening within an environment and the materials it is comprised of influence my artistic practice. The use of symbols, whether in material or object are found within my works to convey the configuration of the world in my eye.

Much of my work has been an investigation of cultural relativism within the quandaries of self-bearing and the façade of American society. These examinations of ideas are then synthesized, transforming into a matrix of ambiguity that alludes our societal time and era.

An investigation into the nuclei of societies and ethics of authority and there relationship to nature and its inhabitants are a focul point of my creative material interactions. Specifically the disintegration of agriculture, business, and construction professions. My interests are manifest in objects and installations.

I find the confines of our society instill a distress within the nature of my work; I attempt to make this apprehension ardent, virtuous and authentic in essence.

Zachary Thomas Stork 2012