Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of Making

Title: Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of Making
Author: David Esterly
E: 1701395
ISBN: 9780670023806
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 288
Section: Art | Movements | Baroque & Rococo
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: 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 Esterly s life, forcing him to question his abilities and delve deeply into what it means to make a thing well. Written with a philosopher s intellect and a poet s grace, "The Lost Carving" explores the connection between creativity and physical work and illuminates the passionate pursuit of a vocation that unites head and hand and heart."