Contemporary Art with Wood: Creative Techniques and Appreciation"In this unique survey of wood in art today, the author traces the development of twentieth-century wood carving from Picasso's early 1907 experiments with cubism. She describes the properties of softwoods and hardwoods; how to select and buy wood, how to dry and seal wood; the use of hand and power tools; painting, finishing, laminating, joining, and pegging. There are examples and demonstrations by today's most prominent sculptors and craftsmen working with wood: Chaim Gross, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, David Hostetler, Roel D' Haese, Wharton Esherick, Antonio Lopez Garcia, Gabriel Kohn, Marisol, Robert Indiana, Louise Nevelson, William A. Keyser, Jr., Hugh Townley, Michael Rothenstein, Robert Stocksdale, Sidney Simon." -- Book cover. |
Contents
WOOD AND TOOLS | 35 |
PAINTING AND FINISHING WOOD | 57 |
LAMINATING JOINING PEGGING | 67 |
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acrylic Allan Stone Anne Arnold architect Art Institute ART WITH WOOD artist assemblage band saw Black walnut blade boards bowl carver Chaim Gross checks chisels clamps color contemporary Courtesy create David Hostetler decorative DIRECT CARVING dowels drill Easy Good Soft edge figure finish Fischbach Gallery Forman Onderdonk Fred Borcherdt furniture glue glued gouges grain Hard Poor hardwoods heartwood hole Institute of Chicago Institute of Design joints Jon Webb kinetic sculptures knots laminated lathe layers Leonard Baskin Low Medium Medium lumber mahogany Marshall LaCour material Medium Medium High Medium Medium Low Medium Medium Medium metal Mike Nevelson Milton Horn Museum Painted wood pattern Photo pieces of wood pine planes plug plywood Poor Medium Redwood Robert Pierron Rudolph Burckhardt Ruth White sanding sapwood sculp shapes Sidney Simon smooth space stain stone surface table saw techniques texture tree ture UNTITLED Wadsworth Atheneum wood carving Wood construction wooden York Zebrawood