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MEGALITHS, MOUNDS & CIRCLES
Carnac Brittany 2002
Goulandris Cycladic Art Museum
Athens, Greece
One the finest collections of Cycladic sculptures in the world. The simplicity of the lines will blow you away...
Megalith Monuments
A Guide to European Megaliths
Paleolithic Cave Paintings of Lascaux.
Marvelous! You won't need boots or a flashlight.
Abstract megalithic sculptures
Megalithic stones in Ireland
Comments and photos of dolmens, megaliths, standing stones, cromlechs and stone circles. Well done.
Petroglyphs of Hawaii
Wes Bogner has created a new DVD based on over 800 images he has taken of petroglyphs in the lava fields on the Big Island. This has been seven years as a labor of love. When not hiking, biking or jeep riding in the Ka'u desert, he paints watercolor images based on petroglyphs. Without a doubt the is the most comprehensive collection of early Hawaiian Rock Art photographs to be found. Enjoy!
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Eat well while Dolmen Hunting
Dating from 2500 to 1500 B.C., the greatest number of dolmens in Europe are located in Southwest France northest of Toulousse, in the Lot and Aveyron River Valleys. This startling pronouncement came from Pamela Petron, author of "Ancient Tombs In Timeless Landscapes", NY Times, Sunday, October 13, 2003, page 10 in the Travel Section. This charming article, shows and tells about a weekend spent searching for stones, off beat restaurant finds, and rustic rural roads and trails.
Pamela includes sources of maps, guides, hints, caveats, places to eat and stay.
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NEW..Conceptural Outdoor Art.
/Earth Art, Earthworks, Reclamation Art, Public Art from Wasted land and Projects
Some of the topics and subject matter may be redundant, but don't give up. This is a relatively new field of art. Anything new evolves and does not proceed directly from A to B, necessarily. As you get into this type of art, the aha will come soon enough.
Restoring and Commemorating Blighted Landscapes, by Hilary Anne Frost-Kumpf
A well thought out and well written documentary of artists reclaim landscapes damaged by human activities. Covers lots of geography: From the Kent, Washington; St Paul: The abandoned coal fields around Scranton, Pennsylvania; to a Meadowlands landfill near Hackensack, complete with photos and bibliography.
an early philosphical and political mover and shaker in the Greens Movement worldwide
The Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis has done a great service by explaining Beuys in simple terms. The theme wraps around his 7000 Trees at Kassell project.
This site follows the movement of art from indoors to outdoors on a large scale. Projects covered incled the Smithson's Spiral Jetty to Heizer's Nine Nevada Depressions. With references to Andy Goldsworthy's works, and Beuy's 7000 Eichen (Oaks).
Earthworks, Art and the Landscape of the 60's,
by Suzaan Boettger, from the Bay Area now in NYC.
Publisher: University of California Press 2002
Yes, this is the definitive book on the Earthworks art movement that started in the 60's by artist Robert Smithson. And art dealer Virginia Dwan and fervent supporters that wanted to get art out of the bricks and mortar of museums. Heizer, Oppenheim, Morris, De Maria and Kaltenbach were West Coast artists that produced this "Cowboy Art" with great gusto! Then they moved on to the Big Apple. Suzaan Boettger has done a magnificient job on researching facts, stories, and interviews. She provides us with a refreshing overview of the relations between art, nature and society in the '60s.
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Einstein & Beyond ABC's :
complex ideas explained
The following are a book and online essays relating to the speed of light as a fixed constant, special theory of relativity, 4th and other dimensions, and sub-atomic and theoretical physics. Also explored that these concepts may have been pre-cognitively perceived and displayed in the work of artists and writers before they were expounded by physicists and mathematicians. These introductions are to whet your appetite for more of the same. Most of these sites have links to more or less complicated discussions on similar or the same topics. Enjoy.
Not all of Einstein's thoughts focused on complex matters...
"Formal symbolic representations of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor importance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound." Albert Einstein
The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking,
Everything from relativity to branes, and strings. Lucid writing backed up with clear illustrations. Bravo, Stephen!
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
This is the book that started it all. On the best sellers list of the London Times for four years straight.
Relativity, The Special and General Theory, Albert Einstein
Breathtaking concepts explained in laymens' terms through the use of analogs.
The Fourth Dimension & Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art,
Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Princeton 1983
Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light by: Dr Leonard Shlain,
Well done description of how some artists, writers and philosophers had pre-cognitive expressions in their work about quantum mechanics, relativity and other dimensions, years before Einstein. Easy to read. Theoretical physics well explained, but still difficult to grasp. Shlain is a surgeon in San Francisco and lives in Mill Valley. Email address: lshlain@aol.com
Dave Slaven's Web Page
Dave teaches physics at Saginaw Valley State University. Online essays include topics such as: Entropy, Relativity, Uncertainty (Heisenberg's), the Atom and of course Dave's Microcosm. You will get you"aha" light turned on!
Signifying Nothing: The 4th Dimension in Modernist Art and Literature Essay by Brad Ricca only on the internet
Case Western Reserve University Phd candidate starts with a quotation from (Hamlet 2.2.258-60) " O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.". He goes on to tell about Edwin A. Abbott's "Flatland, A Romance of many Dimensions" (1884) alludes to the 4th dimension in a conversation between a 2-dimensional square and a 3-dimensional sphere at a time when it was "utterly inconceivable".
He describes how photographer Eadwaerd Muybridge's study of stop-motion photography asserts itself fourth-dimensionally in his "Nude Descending Stairs" (1887), preceding Duchamp's painting "Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2" (1912). Duchamp explicitly combines Picasso's painting "Demoiselles d'Avignon"( 1907) with Muybridge's photo.
Brad's email address: bjr8@cwru.edu
Powers of Ten
A painless way to appreciate the vastness of the universe. Great photographs and simple explanations. Decelerate/accelerate from the edge of outer space to sub-atomic particles in less than 60 seconds! Explore with expotential notation, that is, in logarithmic steps, from the macro to the micro world which is ours for the looking. You will be back before sunrise. Thank you Michael,
Michael W. Davidson
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
1800 East Paul Dirac Drive
The Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
Tel 850 644-0542/ 850-644-3348
Six Not so Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity and Space Time", by Richard P. Feyman, with introduction by Roger Penrose.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" by Edwin Abbott Abbott . Originally published in 1884, this is a fascinating analog of two-dimensional creatures discovering the third or maybe more dimensions. It also a put down of Victorian narrow-mindedness. Fun reading...
The Neptune File, A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting,
by Tom Standage, science writer for the ECONOMIST.
This is the fascinating story of how the planet Neptune was discovered by mathematical research and calculations, without the need of a telescope for discovery of celestial events. And how a rivalry between two astronomers, Adams, British, and Verrier, a Frenchman, was exacerbated by intense ludicrous academic politics, that resulted in the English losing, when in fact Adams was the bona fide discoverer. In many ways this celestial discovery parallels that of DNA, by Watson and Crick, with similar academic and professional political competitiveness.
A Shortcut Through Time, The Path to the Quantum Computer,
by George Johnson, science writer for the NYT, Alfred A. Knopf 2003
This book outlines the feasibility of developing computers of breathtaking speeds based on quanta found in single atoms. It reads like science fiction, but is more exciting because it is within our grasp now. Rather than definitive constants and answers, problems solved with quantum computers will be in the form of quantative statistical solutions, like the real world.
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Cybertimes Navigator
The New York Times Newsroom Navigator
Cybertimes is designed to save time for NYT writers and reporters to make a quick study of any topic ranging from politics, travel and culture, to sodaplay.com .
This is a fabulous very user-friendly reference desk. Link to it; you will use it often. Have fun!
PMSA Public Monuments & Sculpture Associations
c/o Courtuald Institute of Art
Somerset House,
Strand
London WC2R ORN U.K.
Tel: 020 7848 2614
email: pmsa@pmsa.org.uk
links to images of free standing outdoor sculptures all over the United Kingdom. A very well done resource, well indexed and edited. If it is not here, it must not be there!
Promenade Plantee Vs New Central Railroad ROW High Line
Paris Now, and New York in 2007
The three mile long Promenade Plantee (planted promenade) was opened in Paris in 1989. Built on the roadbed of the Eastern Line which served the now gone Bastille Station, is a well landscaped charming walkway lined with gardens, trees and boutique shops, all 30 feet above and paralell to Avenue Daumesnil. Seventy one sandblasted and restored stone and brick viaduct arches, now house showrooms, galleries and workshops. What was jammed with cars, a wide sidewalk that runs alongside the viaduct, is now open to pedestrians only. A lineal park-like setting complete with terrace cafes above the urban bustle, now graces what was a run down neighborhood.
The old Eastern Line right-of-way narrows and widens where the old railroad yards were located. There are even portions that include tunnels, that are now grottoes. Sunny and and shaded areas come and go, as you follow the Promenade. Anne F, Garreta, a novelist and New Yorker who lived in the West Village above the High Line, has written the "The Secret Jardin" which appeared in the NYT Sunday, August, August 21st, 2005. After you read it you will want to pack up and fly to Paris to stroll on the Promenade!
The New York Central High Line right-of-way, if modelled after its Parisian progenitor, offers New Yorkers a possible secret world of forest, gardens, and open and closed views of a city feet below, as they stroll along an idyllic pathway of surprises. The High Line was built in the 1930s to get freight trains off the streets between 34th Street to Clarkson street, in Chelsea. Thanks to Robert Moses, the City developed the High Line and the West Side Improvement project, which is still ongoing. The High Line currently is a rusting series of elevated bridges that stop and start its whole length. But It does not take much imagination after reading Anne Barreta's article, to see the great potential for a renovated High Line, with outdoor sculptures peeking out here and there, like in Battery Park. Vive le New York Central, for providing New York with this great opportunity! See the above web site for a virtual tour of the High Line.
Art & Architecture Journal
70 Cowcross Street, London EC1M
6EJ, UK Tel: 33 (0) 1 4567 0334
www.artandarchitecturejournal.com >
Jeremy Hunt, Editor
The publication has links to many sculpture-related resources. It is a very valuable resource for anyone interested in public visual arts and architecture. I suggest you bookmark it for continuing reference. I have not seen a hard copy of the publication, but if it is as comphrensive as their web site, I am sure you will not be disappointed.
Re: Italian art and architecture,
checkout: floornature.com and archinfo.it exibart.com and teknemedia.net
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A rash of well done art online publications have come to my attention recently that I would like to bring to your attention.
Leading the list, is The Art Newspaper news letter theartnewspaper.com followed by Art Daily and Flash Art Newsletter.
In ink, "Public Sculpture in Wisconsin" by Anton Rajer and Christine Style, is an illustrated compendium of over 700 sculptures found throughout the Badger State. It is accompanied by comments and essays. It is sponsored by SOS! Wisconsin division. Helpful chapters on commissioning new public art, including contract specifications. It is distributed by the University of Wisconsin Press, and is available from amazon.com Retail price: $27.95
Cheers,
Artnut
artandbuddhism.org
Outstanding! artdeadline.com
The art world's source for income & exhibition opportunities
artifact.com
Artifact is a free guide to the best of the Web for the Arts and Creative Industries.
artnut.com/tournesol
Has been updated to include the addition the 30 foot high powder coated fire engine red "Not Your Average Beanstalk" endless column, to collection of the Westcott Bay Reserve Sculpture Park, Roche Harbor, San Juan Island, State of Washington. Rather than reversing pyramids, used on other sculptures in my series of endless columns, this one is a 6" diameter by 30'L spiral helicoidal auger. Click on the above URL or link the Westcott Bay from my International Sculpture Park Directory for more information.
A similar helicoidal auger sculpture 30' high by 9" in diameter, "Jubilee Stomp!", was created at the same time as the Beanstalk mentioned above. Jubilee Stomp is now installed at the entrance to the St Supery Winery, on highway 29, Rutherford, CA.
Good News! Two more 30'H Red Baron red powder coated spiral auger sculptures were completed October, 2003. They are palletized and ready for shipping. For information please call (510) 245-2242, Benbow's studio.
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Enter at your own risk!!
ARTFOCUS
an online arts magazine from Canada.
Arts Bay Area
artist resource - links for artists & writers in SF Bay Area
Beaucoup Foundry Links
Directories with links to metal casting foundries and related resources.
Bellevue Community College
3000 Landerholm Circle SE
Bellevue, WA 98007-6484 Tel: (425) 564-2610
Bellevue Community College offers certificate program in Public Art in their continuing education department. The program is designed for artists, teachers and administrators. Art Zone Public Art Program teaches how to enter the field of public art through classes, field trips, and guest lectures by lawyers, art consultants, architects, gallery owners and artists. Director: Cheryll Leo-Gwin
Berger Foundation
If it is images you are looking for, stop here! Over 100,000 slides. Jacques-Edouard Berger was a curaror at the Musee des Beaux-Arts at Lausanne. He traveled throughout the Near East studying classical civilzations of the region. All of the slides are digitally recorded and are easily accessed.
Call4Art
A virtual resource primarily directed to Bay Area artists and art community. The editor is San Francisco artist: Li Gardner, 228 Duncan St,#102, SF,CA 94131 (415) 970-9612.
Cistern.com
Web site with newsletter regarding what is happening in the world of stone carving sculpture. Contact: tracesmail@earthlink.net
Ctheory
Forum for articles and reviews of contemporary relating to art matters
Common Ground
What started out as a search for a web site for Milestones Project, a series of site specific sculpture that ties together, art, community and land, turned into the discovery of Common Ground. Thanks to Joanna Morland, Website Editor, Public Art South West, joanna@jomorland.f9.co.uk
Common Ground web site is extremely well done in terms of aesthethics, layout, ease of use and linkage to revelant additional sites. It is about culture, land and events in the southwest part of England. Have a look!
D'ART - The Internet Art Database -
A searchable database dedicated to efficiently
classifying art on the Internet.
francesculpture
Nearly 150 French sculptors represented (with a links to their individual sites). Coming soon, the English version of the site!!!!
Growing like Topsy, watch interest in
Kinetic-art.Org mushroom.
Heraclitus was right when he said,
"The only thing that is permanent, is change".
Fore more information:
Ralf Gschwend, President, Kinetic-Art.Org,
301 Clematis St, #3000, Palm Beach, FL 33401.
Tel:(561) 655-2745 or
webmaster@kinetic-art.org
kineticus.com/
a non-profit association for all Kinetic Artists, and people interested in this art form.
Mother of All Art History Links Pages
Yes this may well be the mother of all mothers
of art history...
Museums of the World
Koenigsallee 105
40215 Duesseldorf, Germany
The global museum project, information directly from the museums
This "One Stop" museum directory can be accessed by cell phone from any place in the world for all sorts of museums. Tractors, zoos, airplanes, science and art/archaelogy. Get events, dates, times and other revelant information placed in this directory by the museums themselves.
MuseumLink
MuseumLink's Museum of Museums aims to provide links to every museum on the planet, from the world's largest to the most obscure (assuming they have a website). See the very beginning of this effort at U.S. Museums by State or the newly started Canadian Museums.
Philadelphia - FREE Library-
A plethora of valuable links
Project Gutenberg
Literary Archive Foundation
PMB 113
1739 University Avenue
Oxford MS 38655-4109
Wowie! a personal library on the web! Over 6267 eBooks of world classics have been reprinted as of 2002. Tis is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) corporation that is in a continuing projet to add to a library of eBooks & eTexts. You can search by Author, Title or Subject. They need volunteers for proofreading. You know what to do!
Public Art Index
Essays and Articles on Public Art by David Harding,
Former Head of the Department of Sculpture/Environmental Art
Glascow School of Art, Glascow, Scotland
Good resource on public art. Well put together.
Reference Desk
Reference library online to end all!
Resource Library Magazine
This an encyclopaedic online resouce for those interested in representational art. That says it all!
sculpturesite.com
Museum Quality Contemporary Sculpture for Private, Public and Corporate Collections.
Smithsonian Institute Research Information
Save our Sculptures (SOS)
The Smithsonian has an on going project to catalog outdoor sculptures nationwide. In addition this URL has links to its libraries,catalogs and other subjects that may be of interest.
studioNOTES
the journal for working artists
Stonecarvers Guild
A list of members and resources of stonecarvers in the United States with links.
"Time Line of Art History"
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York
"Time Line of Art History" celebrates human creativity worldwide from pre history to 1800 A.D. It will continue to the present time by the end of 2004. Time line illustrated by selections from the MET's own vast art collection. The museum's staff, which is the largest team of art experts in the world, have compiled an invaluable research and reference tool. Each image can be enlarged and is backed by supporting research material relating to time, cultural, geographical, political, scientific and thematic concerns.
Special Topics: pulls together art movements and time periods, archeological sites, empires and civilizations. Concepts and themes are demonstrated and illustrated by media such as painting, sculpture, ceramics and architecture. Topics infer the cross-fertilization of cultures, such as one might find in the study of humanities. This allows viewers to compare and contrast art worldwide from any time period in history.
Anyone with a smidgen of interest in fine arts will find Time line invaluable...
Traces
Journal of the International Stone Sculpture Community. Very professional web site.
Vassar College
Art Library with links
the WOT project
a virtual artists’ gallery showcasing websites run by contemporary artists worldwide.
Encyclopaedia Mythica
a compilation of myths of many different cultures around the world, and not limited to Greek and Etruscan mythology.
UK Garden Visit and Travel Guide
Information on garden tours, maps,and histories of over 500 gardens in the British Isles, Europe and America. A very valuable resource indeed.
Do you like cookbooks? Visit Gourmet Guides. Hundreds of unusual cookbooks - all discounted.
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The Art Newspaper
Without a doubt, this is my favorite art publication. Once every month I get my fill of great art news, not the usual convoluted verbage. Published in London, it has worldwide coverage and circulation. The snail mail version is $69 regular mail to the USA.
Their web site is well done and much cheaper. Enjoy!
Sculpture Parks & Gardens of America, 1996,
Jane McCarthy and Laurly K Epstein;
Michael Kesend Publishing, 1025 5th Ave, NY,NY 10028
World Sculpture News,
Quarterly Magazine, Editor/ Publisher: Ian Findlay Brown; Hong Kong. Subscriptions U.S. $17.50
Contact magazine c/o PO Box 301388, Escondido, CA 92030-9955
New sculpture magazine emphasizing sculpture-related activities around the
Pacific Rim, but limited to this region. Well written and excellent
photographs. Bravo! Well done.
THE ART REVIEW & The Art World Directory
provides intense coverage of the U.K. art scene.
Art SITES
894 Waller Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
tel. 415.437.2456
Sidra Stitch has written and published a series of well written and researched guides with maps, illustrations and comments. Each book covers the art, artists, museums and architecture of the area covered. When you travel to any of these regions, I recommend that you print out selections from the Artnut Directory of Sculpture Parks and take along a copy of Sidra's book. You can buy direct from art-Sites and they are also available on Amazon.
Current art-Site guides include : France; Paris; Britain & Ireland; Spain & her most recent San Francisco.
Artwalks NY
Artwalks Maine to Maryland,
A Guide to Sculpture Parks & Gardens in America.
by Marina Harrison and Luch D. Rosenfeld,
Michael Kesend Publishing, Ltd; NY, NY.
tel (800) 488-8040
A User's Guide to Public Sculpture '00
Public Monuments & Sculpture Association
English Heritage- Customer Services
P.O. Box 569
Swindon SN2 2YR ENGLAND
Tel: 01793 414 910
members@english-heritage.org.uk
english-heritage.org
A 7.95 pound ($15.00) two hundred page book that is well written with great photos. Emphasis is on prominent large scale outdoor figurative monuments in the various districts of the U.K. But an ocassional abstract sculpture sneaks in when you are not looking...
A Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston
From Newburyport to Plymouth; by Marty Carlock
Sponsored by New England Sculptors Association
Collections of American Sculpture in Museums and Parks, Internet Online Nomograph by Richard Collins
http:// www.sculptor.org
Allows books to be purchased from links at this site.
Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture,
by Brooke Barrie 1999.
Published by Rockport Publishers, Inc.,
33 Commercial Street,
Glouchester, MA 01930-5089.
This is 169 pages of beautiful illustrations of outdoor sculptures worldwide
along with well written commentary. Brooke is the Director and Curator of
the world class 16 acre "Grounds for Sculpture", Hamilton, NJ, since its
inception. You will not be disappointed.
Local Color, di Rosa Preserve, 1999,
Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA
Well done description of the over 1,600 pieces of art, done by 600 Bay Area artists in the Rene & Veronica Foundation Collection in Napa, CA.
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