Product Description: Michele Oka Doner is an internationally acclaimed artist and designer whose prolific career spans four decades and encompasses public art, sculpture, furniture, jewelry and functional objects. This book, designed by Massimo Vignelli, begins with the small tattooed porcelain torsos of the mid-60s, but focuses primarily on recent life-sized bronze castings...read more

Product Description: This is the second volume of a two-volume set that records the distinguished collection of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book presents nearly two hundred works by seventy sculptors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This scholarly volume interprets American taste and aesthetics in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Described here are 171 sculptures from the MFA's collection, in marble, bronze, plaster, and other materials. Biographies of the sculptors - including such legendary figures as Horatio Greenough, Hiram Powers, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens - detail the artists' origins and careers, while an appendix provides a groundbreaking technical analysis of the bronzes...read more

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