John Rood, a sculpture and former professor of art at the University
of Minnesota, provides in this book a practical, how-to-do-it
discussion of the technique of welded metal sculpture. In addition to
serving as an instruction manual for students and artists working
with welded sculpture, the book will be helpful to art critics,
connoisseurs, and others, who will gain greater insight into this
kind of art by knowing something of the processes involved. In an
introductory chapter the author discusses welded sculpture as an art
form. In separate chapters he considers oxyacetylene welding,
equipment, finishes, brazing, techniques, and arc-welding. He gives a
step-by-step account of the making of a piece of welded sculpture for
an architectural setting. A chapter on the making of sketches and a
list of safety rules conclude the text, and there is a brief
bibliography. The book is profusely illustrated with photographs
showing the author’s own metal sculpture, works of other artists, and
tools and equipment. John Rood is also the author of Sculpture in
Wood, and his art is critically discussed and portrayed in John
Rood’s Sculpture by Bruno Schneider, both published by the University
of Minnesota Press
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