Great American Sculptures With Twelve Superb Steel Engravings
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781417950676
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Sculpture; Art; Art & Art Instruction; USA; American - General
First sentence: THOSE who are unwilling to go further back in their speculations upon the origin of sculpture than positive evidence will carry them, attribute the invention to the ancient Egyptians, and they find an argument in the highly-finished system of hieroglyphic, or image-writing, which that people carried to such perfection, and imagine it to have furnished the first rudiments of sculpture.