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One hot summer day, a man who makes sculpture out of junk helps a boy create what he sees in his mind's eye.

"The Romantics to Rodin aims to reveal the aesthetic and historical importance of French nineteenth-century sculpture. ... Not only did French sculpture exert considerable influence upon work produced elsewhere -- especially upon American sculpture at the end of the century ... but France in the nineteenth century probably produced more sculpture than any other country at that time or at any previous time in history. ... Along with the large quantity...

"Hello, my name is Thomas Thwaites, and I have made a toaster." So begins The Toaster Project, the author's nine-month-long journey from his local appliance store to remote mines in the UK to his mother's backyard, where he creates a crude foundry. Along the way, he learns that an ordinary toaster is made up of 404 separate parts, that the best way to smelt metal at home is by using a method found in a fifteenth-century treatise, and that plastic...

Nearly 500 photos of artwork with personal insights from 76 of today's most noteworthy artists show the broad range of possibilities that working in three dimensions can offer. In conjunction with the other two books in this acclaimed series, it invites readers to re-examine fiber art through a multifaceted contemporary lens. Both established artists and emerging artists whose work is attracting notice are gathered here. Carol Milne's knitted glass...

The Bailey School kids investigate to see if a mad scientist can turn a snow sculpture into a real dragon.