sculptors

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sculptors

Michelangelo

2012
Discusses the style and technique of the Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor, Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Statue of Liberty

1979
Presents the story behind the building of the colossal statue in New York Harbor, France's gift to the U.S. commemorating friendship and symbolizing freedom.

Remember Ben Clayton

a novel
2011
Landing a commission by taciturn rancher Lamar Clayton to create a memorial statue of a son killed in World War I, proud artistic exile Francis "Gil" Gilheany and his daughter realize that Lamar is guarding a secret that parallels a lie Gil fears may cost him his daughter's love.

Calder

mobilist, ringmaster, innovator
1980
Presents the life and representative works of artist and sculptor Alexander Calder against the world of contemporary art.

The Mount Rushmore story

1985
A biography of the sculptor who devoted the last fourteen years of his life to the carving of the four presidents' heads on the face of Mount Rushmore.

A place in the sun

1997
In ancient Egypt, the gifted young son of a sculptor is taken into slavery when he attempts to save his father's life, and is himself almost killed before his exceptional talent leads Pharoah to name him Royal Sculptor.

Maya Lin

architect and artist
1995
Explores the life of Chinese-American artist Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Michelangelo's surprise

1998
After a very heavy snowfall in Florence, Italy, Sandro, the youngest page in the palazzo of Piero De' Medici, tries to find out why the ruler has summoned the sculptor, Michelangelo.

Kai

a big decision, Africa, 1440
1997
In the Yoruba village of Oyo in 1440, Kai has the opportunity to realize her dream of becoming a sculptor, but at the price of separation from her life in Ife and the loss of her new-found closeness to her sister.

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