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By: Series: Phaidon focusPublication details: London ; New York, NY : Phaidon Press, 2013.Description: 145 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780714861562
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N 6537 SMI PAC
Contents:
Risks and rewards The early years
The 1930s: Photography in the 1930s -- Welding -- Medals for dishonor
War and its aftermath: the 1940s. Helmholtzian landscape -- Photographing sculpture
Maturity: the 1950s. Drawings and sprays -- The working process
Full flower: 1960-5. Voltri -- Cubi -- The fields
Summary: One of the pre-eminent American sculptors of the twentieth century, Smith was a powerful innovator. He introduced the industrial process of welding, and was able to manipulate metal into extraordinarily imaginative and varied compositions, using it literally to "draw in space." The author sheds light on Smith's prolific output of drawing, sketching, writing and photography.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General N 6537 SMI PAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0011989

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145).



Risks and rewards The early years

The 1930s:

Photography in the 1930s -- Welding -- Medals for dishonor

War and its aftermath: the 1940s.

Helmholtzian landscape -- Photographing sculpture

Maturity: the 1950s.




Drawings and sprays -- The working process

Full flower: 1960-5.





Voltri -- Cubi -- The fields

One of the pre-eminent American sculptors of the twentieth century, Smith was a powerful innovator. He introduced the industrial process of welding, and was able to manipulate metal into extraordinarily imaginative and varied compositions, using it literally to "draw in space." The author sheds light on Smith's prolific output of drawing, sketching, writing and photography.

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