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Sculpture: Principles and Practice
by Louis Slobodkin
from Dover Publications

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Dated but interesting.
  If you purchase this book knowing you are getting an outdated book you may enjoy it more. It has some good info in a few areas, especially in basic clay-up, but lacks in most modern mold making techniques. The sculpture in this book is basically classical to put it simply. I would still reccomend this book especially to beginners.

• Blaaaaa
  I was thinking that this book would give me tips and ideas... its more of a history then how to.

• For beginners
  If you are a beginning sculpture student, this might be a book for you. Althought the information is somewhat dated (original copyright is 1949) the book is fairly direct and straight-forward in its writing style. Primary interest of the author--and the bulk of written information--is directed to modeling in clay and casting in plaster. The section on stone carving is short, but fairly complete. The woodcarving section is sketchy and, other than a good list of the tools needed, inadequate.
  The sections... more info

• Great general guide
  I agree with the comment below - this is a beginner's book. More power to it. It was written by someone who has taught as well as practiced & focuses on the sculpting process rather than on artistic technique. Some of the mediums he covers (casting stone, glue molds) have advanced in ease of use since this book was written, but this guide has stood the test of time.

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