Lost Carving A Journey to the Heart of Making

Name: Lost Carving A Journey to the Heart of Making
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ISBN: 9780143124412

ISBN-10: 0143124412

ISBN-13: 9780143124412

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Authors: David Esterly

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"A beautiful, intricate meditation on creativity and discovery, on fire and rebirth." --Elizabeth Gilbert Awestruck at the sight of a Grinling Gibbons carving in a London church, David Esterly chose to dedicate his life to woodcarving--its physical rhythms, intricate beauty, and intellectual demands. Forty years later, he is the foremost practitioner of Gibbons's forgotten technique, which revolutionized ornamental sculpture in the late 1600s with its spectacular cascades of flowers, fruits, and foliage. After a disastrous fire at Henry VIII's Hampton Court Palace, Esterly was asked to replace the Gibbons masterpiece destroyed by the flames. It turned out to be the most challenging year in…

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List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/31/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.70" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

David Esterly is the author of Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving and curated the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition on Gibbons in 1998. He has been a professional limewood carver since the 1970s and has been profiled in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Financial Times. He has written for many magazines, including The Times Literary Supplement and House & Garden. He lives inupstate New York.