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Sculpture Books: Sculptures are the artistic form of hard or plastic material worked into two or three-dimensional objects. Sculptures are made using cay, stone, metal, fabric, wax, glass, wood, rubber, plaster, and even random found objects. These materials are modeled, carved, cast, welded, sewn, assembled, or combined into shapes. The meaning of the word sculpture is “to carved” We all must have seen outdoor statues which are a type of sculpture. They are not only made as model figures but are also carved into the walls, sticking out from a flat surface.

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The history of making sculptures is very old, people have been making sculptures for thousands of years. The oldest sculpture to be found is an ivory statuette from the Paleolithic period, dating back to around 35,000 BC.

This was discovered in the came in Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany in 1939, it was carved out of the mammoth tusk. Historians have estimated that the tools used were the primitive flint tools, which took more than 350 hours to complete.

This is because people lived on the edge of subsistence, and spending such an extended amount of time in making this statuette suggests it must have been an extremely important artifact.

A person who created sculpture is known as a sculptor, who has a deep interest in the way things appear and their shape. They have different points of view on the objects. We the team of BooksBenefit bring you a wide collection of sculpture books that will help you with understanding sculptures in a better way.

There are so many types of sculptures made like relief, high relief, bas relief, Sunken Relief, carving, Full Round Sculpting, Modeling, Casting, Site Specific Sculpting, etc.

Sculptures have been used by people in the past in association with religious beliefs. For example, In a time when people did not know reading and writing, the church had no means of delivering the message of hope and the doom that would befall those who didn’t adhere to the word.

When sculpting was introduced, which is one of the oldest forms of art even before the dawn of painting, was the only way to communicate the importance of religion.

Making sculptures are also used to give honor to great leaders. Kings loved to get their statues carved which they would then place in essential parts of the kingdom. Not only the leaders but statues of sportsmen are also carved like Cristiano Ronaldo is one such recipient.

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