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Stone in Scotland

Texts: Andrew McMillan, Ewan Hyslop, ,Ingval Maxwell

Earth Science Series

UNESCO Publishing 2006

Stone Built: Orkney Photographs

Gunnie Moberg

Stromness Books and Prints 1979

Stone of Destiny

Pat Gerber

Canongate 1997 2005

Rosslyn

Texts : Helen Rosslyn, Angelo Maggi & James Simpson

National Gallery of Scotland 2002

The Ascent of Man

J. Bronowski

1973

Gesture and Thought

David McNeill

Chicago University Press 2005

Gestures their Origins and Distribution

Desmond Morris, Peter Collett, Peter Marsh, Marie O’Shaughnessy

Jonathan Cape 1979

The Eyes of the Skin

Juhani Pallasmaa

Wiley & Sons 2005

The Fourth Dimension in Architecture

The Impact of Building on Behavior

Edward T. Hall

1995

Stone Architecture: Ancient and Modern Construction Skills

Alfonso Acocella

Lucense SKIRA 2006

All the Ways of Building

L Lamprey

MacMillan 1955

Technology in the Ancient World

Henry Hodges

Penguin Books 1971

A History of Technology

Volume I

Singer, Holmyard and Hall

Oxford 1954 (1967)

The Substance of Civilization

Stephen L. Sass

Arcade Publishing 1998

Tools and their Uses

Prepared by the U.S.Navy Bureau of Naval Personnel

Dover reprint 1971

The Nature and Art of Workmanship

David Pye

Cambium Press Cambridge University Press 1968

The Book of Trades

JostAmman & Hans Sachs

1568 Dover reprint 1973

The blacksmith’s Craft

Council for Small Industries in Rural Areas

1952

Stone Tool Traditions in the Contact Era

Edited by Charles R Cobb

University of Atlanta Press 2003

Vasari on Technique

Georgio Vasari

Translated by Louisa S Maclehose

Reprinted by Dover 1960

Sculpture: Processes and Principles

Rudolph Wittkower

Harper & Row 1977

Soft Stone Carving

C.A.I. Ritchie

St Martin’s Press 1973

The Materials of Sculpture

Nicholas Penny

Yale University Press

1993

The first third of the book is dedicated to stone, The Materials of Sculpture is a treasure of sculptural information and thought provoking nuggets of insight such as these:

“It is worth emphasizing that only one work of art illustrated here…was designed for viewing by electric light, yet hardly any of them can now be seen without it.”

“In the 1580’s [White Apuan marble]…was used by the ruler of Morocco for his new palace at Marrakesh (paid for with equal quanties of sugar).

And it also contains practical information for the investigator:

“There are two important collections of marble samples available for consultation in Britain. One is in the Sedgwick Museum of Geology in Cambridge University which was created in the late nineteenth century and can be viewed by appointment. It’s range is extraordinary, but it is less strong on the marbles used in antiquity than is the collection formed by Faustino Corsi in Rome in the early nineteenth century. The Corsi collection is now in the University Museum in Oxford; part of it is on display and the parts in store can be viewed by appointment.”

Michelangelo: A Self Portrait

Edited by Robert J, Clements

Prentice Hall 1963

Michelangelo

Anthony Bertram

Dutton 1964

Michelangelo’s Mountain

Eric Scigliano

Simon and Schuster (Free Press ) 2005

Henry Moore: Writings and Conversations

Edited by Alan Wilkinson

Lund Humphrirs 2002

Sentences on Conceptual Art

Sol Lewit 1969

A Sculptors World

Isamu Noguchi,, preface by Buckminster Fuller

Harper & Row 1968

Scholar’ Rocks in Ancient China

The Suyuan Stone Catalogue

Kemin Hu

Weatherhill, Inc / Orchid Press 2002

Worlds Within Worlds

The Rosenblum Collection of Chinese Scholars’ Rocks

Robert D Mowry,

Asia Society, New York

The Japanese Art of Stone Appreciation

Vincent T. Covello & Yuri Yoshimura

Charles E. Tuttle Company

Kyoto Gardens

Kinsaku Nakane

Hoikusha Publishing 1985 ( 1965)

Peripheral Visions

Mary Catherine Bateson

Harper Collins 1994

The Mind in the Cave

David LewisWilliams

Thames & Hudson 2002

The Phenomenology of Perception

Maurice Merleau-Ponte

Routledge 1945

Mind and Nature: a necessary unity

Gregory Bateson

Harper Collins 1972

Gregory Bateson is one of the most fascinating thinkers for artists. His father was a geneticist (and coined the word genetics.) Gregory began as an anthropologist, writing an unusual book in 1939 called Navin, which in the years since it was written has proved to be an important contribution to our understanding of context. In Navin he describes a primitive culture from several points of view. This set the stage for later thinking about ecology. During WWII Bateson helped develop Cybernetics.

Bateson’s concept of the “Double Bind” earned his recognition as the father of family therapy. His “meta dialogues” which form some of the individual chapters in his book Mind and Nature are explanations of basic concepts such as entropy to questions posed by his six year old daughter. He continues to explore many topics in Notes Toward an Ecology of Mind always looking for what he calls “the pattern that connects.”

A Sacred Unity

Gregory Bateson

Harper Collins 1991