Roy Ysla

Striking Figures: Figurative Door Knockers from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bookbaby
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 213mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 1270g
• ISBN-13: 9780692072332
• ISBN-10: 0692072330
• Artikelnr.: 56711167

Autorenporträt

Roy Ysla is a metal artist with studios in Kensington, Maryland and Verbania, Italy. He creates large-scale sculptural pieces and small-scale jewelry. He holds an MFA in studio art and has exhibited his metalwork in the United States and Europe. He has taught English in high school and history in college. Additionally, he has worked as a translator and a physician. His lifelong interest in the history of the metal arts as well as his many years of wandering in and out of countless museums, galleries, obscure antique shops, workshops, and auction houses has lead to his collection of more than 200 historic figurative door knockers, which is documented in this book. This book is an homage to the many anonymous blacksmiths, locksmiths, and sculptors who created these works. With this volume, he invites you to page back through history and enjoy these unique and largely under-appreciated small-scale sculptures known as door knockers.