Imagining Sculpture is the story of the absence of a powerful European idea: Sculpture. In China statues, stele, and other figural objects were made for millennia but were not categorized as Sculpture. Imagining Sculpture explains how they were seen in China as objects beyond the category of Sculpture. Stanley Abe has written a series of short historical and fictional vignettes...(展开全部)

A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated overview of contemporary sculpture.

This up-to-date and detailed exploration of China's magnificent sculptural heritage is presented in this book that is both accessible to the general reader and revelatory for the scholar. Sculpture is becoming known as one of China's great arts. Neolithic figurines, rows upon rows of underground terra-cotta statues, exquisite bronzes, Buddhas carved in cave walls - all these ar...(展开全部)

罗尔夫·托曼（Rolf Toman），研修德语文学和哲学，德国知名独立出版人和国际知名艺术史研究专家。他曾在一家大型国际出版公司任编辑数年，1992年起成为独立出版人，长期从事文化及艺术史学相关的研究与图书出版工作，并与各国较有影响力的一些大型出版公司有多次深入的合作。与艺术史相关的艺术图书是他的工作重点，多年来组织各地相关专家编著出版过多部与艺术史相关的出版物，并有多部作品被引进中国出版。 阿希姆·贝德诺兹（Achim Bednorz），来自科隆，致力于为建筑与艺术史的出版物拍摄作品图像长达二十多年之久。他将自己定义为“神圣处所的守望者”。 巴巴拉·波隆加塞尔(Barbara Borngässer），德累斯顿人，在柏林、佛罗伦萨和萨拉曼卡从事艺术史、罗马研究和考古学研究，曾有多部现代建筑方面的著作出版。

Since 1945 the modern revolution in sculpture has gathered pace, and sculpture has now ceased to be the fixed category it once was. In recent decades the modernist idea of sculpture across the UK, America, and Europe, has been challenged, and issues such as nationalityand politics have been brought in to the arena of public discussion. In this ground-breaking account of the dev...(展开全部)

Starting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and continuing up to the present, Imagining the Balkans covers the Balkan's most formative years. From the down fall of the Ottoman Empire, through the turbulent nationalist years of the nineteenth century, up to World War I, the idea of the Balkans was fiercely, often violently, contested. In the wake of WWI, the beginnings o...(展开全部)

"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imag...(展开全部)

The Romanesque was the first epoch of medieval art that encompassed all of Europe. Its origins hearken back to characteristic elements of Roman construction - reflected in the name of the period - and in the course of the High Middle Ages developed into the embodiment of Christian sacred art. Architecture, painting, and sculpture were permeated with the Christian worldview and ...(展开全部)

The awesome diversity of a fascinating epoch of European art and culture is presented in this wide-ranging illustrated volume. It presents the history of Gothic architecture from its origins and blossoming in 12th-century France through its dissemination in all of Europe; and an in-depth discussion of the most diverse art forms, including painting, sculpture, metalwork and book...(展开全部)

Rolf Toman has worked as an independent art publisher for various international publishing houses for several decades. He authored and edited many acclaimed publications on art history and spirituality.