Greek Sculptors at Work
Carl Bluemel
Phaidon Press Ltd
No work of art can be completely
understood unless we know how it was
created. Hence an unfinished painting
or sculpture often shows revealing
features which are lost in the finished
work. Antique statues are almost
incomprehensible to us in their
technique because the greatest effects
are here achieved by the smallest means.
The present text explains in a lucid and
always interesting way how the Greek
sculptors produced their works. The
illustrations, mainly from unfinished
sculptures, show the use of the
different tools and make it clear how the
artist proceeded from the first
inspiration to the last stroke. This book
gives a deeper insight into Greek art
than many a bulky text-book.