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