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Carving The Human Face
Jeff Phares
Fox Chapel Publishing Company
1970 Broad St., East Petersburg PA 17520
1-56523-102-3 $24.95 carvingworld.com
World Champion carver Jeff Phares is kfamous for his lifelike busts and masks
and in Carving The Human Face: Capturing Character And Expression In Wood, he
shares his techniques for creating masterful human portraits in wood. Part One
showcases more than 20 of his current works, focusing in on the wise and
weathered expressions of Native Americans, frontiersmen and cowboys. Part Two
offers more than 350 instructional photographs taking the aspiring sculptor
from a block of butternut to the finished facial mask of a Native American
warrior. Part Three of Carving The Human Face includes more than 20 diagrams
explaining facial anatomy and how it relates to Carving Masks and busts.
Woodcarvers and sculptors will find the material and techniques comprising this
single volume "how to" guide and manual to be invaluable in honing their skills
and improving their work.
Dali's Optical Illusions
Dawn Ades
Yale University Press
Box 209040, New Haven, CT 06520-9040
0-300-08177-4 $45.00
Dali's Optical Illusions is the first to probe Dali's fascination with optical
effects and perception, packing in examples of Dali's works and commenting on
his sources, inspiration, and methods. Accompanying discussions to each page of
illustration comment on technique, inspiration, and visual impact of Deli's
images. Highly recommended.
Eyewitness
Jed Perl
Basic Books
10 E. 53rd St., New York NY 10022-5299
0-465-05520-6 $35.00
Over twenty essays provides the thoughts of contemporary artists who reflect
upon trends in the art world. Eyewitness charts the collapse of institutions
and traditions and their replacement with new systems in the art world; showing
how the influences of major institutions have affected the content and display
of art around the world. Insights on a market-dominated art world are
particularly well done and revealing.
World Design
Christian Pixis and Uta Abendroth
Chronical Books
85 - 2nd St., 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105
0-8118-2624-4 $40.00
This A-Z encyclopedia of contemporary furniture, fashion and graphics designs
provides an engrossing survey featuring over a thousand color photos of the
works of the finest modern designers. From discussions of individual
contributions to wider-ranging surveys of styles, movements and innovations,
World Design packs in details about the changing, evolving world and styles of
designers.
Paint!: Figure & Portrait
Betsy Hosegood
RotoVision/Watson-Guptil Publications
1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036
2-88046-421-8 $29.95
In Paint!: Figure & Portrait, Betsy Hosegood offers sixteen professional
portraits and figure paintings described by the artists who made them. All
paint media are surveyed including watercolor, egg tempera, acrylic, oils,
pastels, and mixed media. Close-up images enable the reader to see brush marks
and knife marks in detail. Paint!: Figure & Portrait showcases stunning color
mixes as each artist reveals his or her palette of colors. All technical terms
and techniques are concisely explained resulting in this art instruction and
appreciation book that will prove invaluable for art students and enthusiasts.
The Art of Whitfield Lovell
Diana Block, editor
University of North Texas Press
PO Box 311336, Denton, TX 76203-1336
1-57441-075-X $29.95 unt.edu/untpress
Whitfield Lovell is famed for his art combining on-site drawings with found
objects and other components of personal metaphor, African-American ancestry,
and cultural memory. Using images from photographs of people from the 1920s and
1930s, Lovell evokes and honors an era with heavily layered narrative drawings
manifesting timelessness and universality. The Art Of Whitfield Lovell is
enhanced with an informative essay by Lucy Lippard and a "must" for all Lovell
fans.
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