Art Bronzes [Hardcover]

Michael Forrest (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1988

Here is an important and lavishly beautiful new study of the discovery, appreciation, recognition and selection of fine bronze statuary created during the 19th and early 20th centuries. This period was an era of great social and cultural change in which bronze sculpture managed to capture the evolving spirit of romance, turbulence and excitement. Art Bronzes presents over 1,100 illustrations, 200 in full color, and many pages of carefully researched text with relevant marks, inscriptions, artist signatures, dates, and foundry stamps. Over 450 well-and lesser-known artists in Romantic, Animal, Oriental, Frontier, Victorian, and Exotic styles working in Europe, Asia and the Americas are represented. Dealers, collectors, artists, and art historians all will find inspiration and important, newly discovered information in Art Bronzes.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

A typologically arranged visual survey of bronzes of the 19th and early 20th centuries, this work offers a slight text in each of the ten chapters but extended captions for many of the 1100 works by 380 artists. More extensive works (e.g., Harold Berman's Bronzes, Sculptors & Founders 1800-1930 ) and more specialized titles on these collectible works are available, but this is a good one-volume survey of the subject, written primarily to give the collector quick visual reference. The biographies are very brief, the section of marks more so, and the illustrations good, bad, and ugly. An expensive book collectors will request.Jack Perry Brown, Ryerson & Burnham Lib., Art Inst. of Chicago
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Michael Forrest is an art historian, author, antiques dealer and frequent contributor to publications in America and Europe.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 493 pages
• Publisher: Schiffer Pub Ltd; 1ST edition (1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0887401228
• ISBN-13: 978-0887401220
• Product Dimensions: 12.3 x 9.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,398,485 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must for art lovers... A must for Artists..., October 24, 2000

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Andres E. Krawiec (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Art Bronzes (Hardcover)

I bought this book out of the blue, based only on the subject matter promised. I did have to think it, though, as it is indeed quite an investment, and not just something to be dismissed and shelved with a shrug if the material is not what you expected. As a sculptor and art lover, I am always in search of a little boost... Inspiration of sorts... Things that push me towards higher goals. But, finding myself in a third world country at the time (Bolivia), a place where art is at the bottom of the ladder and there is no access to museums, galleries, or basically anything to enrich the mind, I have had to rely on books and only books to fulfill my interests and needs. I have made mistakes, and ended up stuck with expensive books, way below my expectations, but I finally decided to take the chance on this one. Let me just say that, in my modest, but decent personal library on books on art, I have set Art Bronzes at the top of the list. It goes way beyond anything I had expected! If I had received but half of what this book offers, I would have been satisfied! But this book goes all the way! I have been through it countless times, and I always end up with an amazing need to run of and start working on a sculpture! The pictures are beautiful, inspiring, detailed, devided into sections for every taste and need. The writing is above average, short, to the point, and with all that is needed to know on a particular piece. Above all, and going beyond my artistic interests, it is a book for anyone who has ever stood in front of a sculpture and felt something tingle inside them. Art lovers and artists everywhere... This is the book... If no other... Go through it, and you will not be able to set it down... When you finally do, place it anywhere, and I can assure you that whomever takes a glipmse at it, interested in art or not, will indeed start loooking at art, at sculpture, in a whole different light. A real find... A real treasure...