The Sculptor's Bible: The All-media Reference to Surface Effects and How to Achieve Them |
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John Plowman
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Pages: 256 (Spiral-bound)
ISBN: 0713671327
Pub: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Pub date: 2005-02-03
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 50818
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It's all on the surface (21/22 people found this helpful)
Not so much a bible, more like an epistle or even a Deuteronomy. Plowman, or his publisher, or both, are being quite presumptuous that his writing will be taken as the valued final authoritative truth on the subject of sculpture... it won't be. The book is small sized, ring bound, glossy paper, smallish colour photos with associated concise blocks of text. You may anticipate that it is going to be a comprehensive wide ranging study of sculpture... it is not... it has only one subject matter... surface effects on sculpture and how to create them. There are 350 texture swatches, rather like a paint manufacturer's colour chart, usually three per page, arranged in sections under the headings of stone, wood, metal, fired clay, plaster, resin, cements, with a short practical method, step by step, of achieving them. There are a few interludes of actual sculptures as examples, but some of these recycled photos have appeared before in Plowman's other books... a kind of economy that is rather disappointing? It is a practical book that is almost certain to introduce you to a patina, paint, stain, varnish, punching, polishing, impressing, and waxing that you haven't met before, but that assumes that you prefer the artificial to the natural state. Your choice. []
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