`BRONZE` PUBLISHED BY THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, FIRST EDITION

"BRONZE" PUBLISHED BY THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, FIRST EDITION

Black & color pictorial wraps, French flaps, 303 pp., 150+ color plates; weighs 2kgs. Published in conjunction with a 2012 exhibition that "examines bronze's earliest beginnings in North Africa, the Middle East and China, as it left behind tools and weaponry to become a fine-art material. Leading authorities chart the virtuosity of artists in ancient Greece and Rome; later developments in Asia and Africa; bronze's great flowering in the European Renaissance in the hands of such figures as Ghilberti, Donatello and Cellini; and its use in the modern era by artists from Rodin and Picasso to Brancusi and Bourgeois. Contains lavish colour plates of over 150 masterworks arranged chronologically to take the reader on a voyage through time, tracing the work of the best bronze sculptors, casters and chasers through the centuries.

DESCRIBED BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AS THE FINEST BOOK OF ITS KIND