{"product_id":"shaping-the-world","title":"Shaping the World","description":"In this wide-ranging, thought-provoking and sometimes provocative new book, leading sculptor Antony Gormley, informed and energised by a lifetime of making, and art critic and historian Martin Gayford, explore sculpture as a transnational art form with its own compelling history. The authors’ lively conversations and explorations make unexpected connections across time and media.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   Sculpture has been practised by every culture throughout the world and stretches back into our distant past. The first surviving shaped stones may even predate the advent of language. Evidently, the desire to carve, mould, bend, chip away, weld, suspend, balance – to transform a vast array of materials and light into new shapes and forms – runs deep in our psyche and is a fundamental part of our human journey and need for expression.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   With more than 300 spectacular illustrations, \u003ci\u003eShaping the World\u003c\/i\u003e juxtaposes a rich variety of works – from the famous Lowenmensch or Lion Man, c. 35,000 BCE to Michelangelo’s luminous Pietà in Rome, the Terracotta Warriors in China to Rodin’s \u003ci\u003eThe Kiss\u003c\/i\u003e, Marcel Duchamp’s ready-mades, Olafur Eliasson’s extraordinary \u003ci\u003eWeather Project\u003c\/i\u003e and Kara Walker’s \u003ci\u003eFons Americanus\u003c\/i\u003e, and Tomas Saraceno’s ongoing Aerocene project, as well as examples of Gormley’s own work.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   Antony Gormley and Martin Gayford take into account materials and techniques, and consider overarching themes such as light, mortality and our changing world. Above all, they discuss their view of sculpture as a form of physical thinking capable of altering the way people feel, and they invite us to look at sculpture we encounter – and more broadly the world around us – in a completely different way.","brand":"Thames and Hudson Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54014963515732,"sku":"9780500022672","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/9358\/6772\/files\/unnamed_e50d0177-8ac4-4bf0-8db6-9ede178f2aee.jpg?v=1778850351","url":"https:\/\/shop.creatives-wings.com\/products\/shaping-the-world","provider":"CW shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}