Carving Classic Female Figures in Wood
Subtitle: A How-To Reference for Carvers and Sculptors
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Published: September 28, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781565232211
Subjects: Woodworking; Woodwork Arts And Crafts; Crafts & Hobbies; Crafts / Hobbies; Hobbies/Crafts; Carving; Sculpture; Woodwork - General; Crafts & Hobbies / Woodwork; Human figure in art; Technique; Women in art; Wood-carving
First sentence: For thousands of years the depiction of the female body has been a constant obsession with artists and craftsmen, from the crudest daub on a cave wall through the finest marble sculptures, bronzes and paintings to the mystifying productions of cubism and abstraction.