Frederick Hart: Changing Tides [Hardcover]

Michael Novak (Author), Frederick Turner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 20, 2005

A comprehensive look into the life and talent of a classical sculptor whose art - at once traditional in its adherence to the importance of the human figure, and radical in its sensuality and innovative use of materials - is represented in both his public commissions and private work.

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About the Author

Frederick Turner, Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas, Dallas Michael Novak currently holds the George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 244 pages
• Publisher: Hudson Hills Press (April 20, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155595233X
• ISBN-13: 978-1555952334
• Product Dimensions: 13.3 x 9.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #271,278 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars 128 color plates, 12 duo tones, and 83 halftones, June 9, 2005

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This review is from: Frederick Hart: Changing Tides (Hardcover)

Enhanced with an informative foreword by Frederick Turner (Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas, Dallas) and an insightful essay by Michael Novak (an expert on Hart's work and holder of the George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.), Changing Tides is a 256-page monograph on sculptor Frederick hart (1943-1999) which is superbly illustrated with 128 color plates, 12 duo tones, and 83 halftones. Readers and art students will appreciate Frederick hart's working processes as renowned sculptor of the human form. Changing Tides is a seminal, core addition to professional, art school, community and university library 20th Century Art History collections with respect to the development of figural sculpture in America.