This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... TECHNIQUE OF SCULPTURE. PART I. HISTORY OF SCULPTURE. HE art of sculpture represents objects by a solid likeness to their forms. These are carved in relief or detached entirely from the background. In speaking of sculpture we may include figures in bronze or other metals, as well as figures in stone ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... TECHNIQUE OF SCULPTURE. PART I. HISTORY OF SCULPTURE. HE art of sculpture represents objects by a solid likeness to their forms. These are carved in relief or detached entirely from the background. In speaking of sculpture we may include figures in bronze or other metals, as well as figures in stone or marble. The desire to commemorate in some palpable form the memory of extraordinary events and persons was doubtless the origin of this art among men. Sculpture is, literally, the process of graving or cutting hard material. The word is derived from the Latin sculpo. It is commonly applied to artistic carving or cutting. In this sense processes which do not, strictly speaking, involve the cutting of hard substances, are included in the term. Sculpture as a fine art includes, then, the molding of soft materials as well. Clay, and often wax, have been employed from the earliest times, either for making sketches or models for reproduction in marble or bronze, or as a vehicle for finished work. Sculpture is the oldest of the arts. Long before the Scriptures were written we find products of it in ancient Egypt. It is the most enduring, as well as the most ancient, of all arts. The first savage who scratched a design upon a flat surface was a sculptor, however crude his work. From the beginnings of art in Greece, where it afterward found its most perfect expression, we may trace the entire history of a school of sculpture. The savage races of to-day have rude carvings similar to the prehistoric Greek. Among the Mojave Indians of the great desert of Arizona we find specimens of a crude handiwork, reminding us of the early dawn of Grecian art, which, in later years, reached its zenith and afterward fell into decay. A child, beginning to model in...
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