Art Bronzes
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 ChicagoCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.