Stone
A Legacy and Inspiration for Art

Stone: A Legacy and Inspiration for Art is a photographic journey through the traditional processes of extracting stone, showing the beauty of the material, and the way it is used today in contemporary sculpture.

This beautiful, visually stimulating book, explores the delights of contemporary stone sculpture and stone carving. Stone is a major resource and inspiration for artists, craft-workers, and scholars in many areas, and also has huge attraction for a wider public, given its high visual impact, dramatic footage and timely re-evaluation of often hidden professions. The book portrays the beauty of stone and the relevance of deeper investigation into its existence in general and, more specifically, contemporary sculpture.

Stone: A Legacy and Inspiration for Art offers an introduction to the traditional techniques of stone carving and reviews methods of extraction that are dying out. The authors traveled worldwide learning, interviewing and photographing these unique processes. The photographs in this book show the stunning results. The book then goes on to look at the work of crafts people today in
contemporary stone sculpture.