Stone and Marble Carving: A Manual for the Student Sculptor

Alec Miller’s Stone and Marble Carving: A Manual for the Student Sculptor is a rare blend of workshop craft and lived wisdom, distilling a lifetime at the bench into clear, practical guidance. Grounded in the Greek sense of technics championed by Ananda Coomaraswamy, the book moves beyond aesthetics to the elemental disciplines of tool, material, and method. Miller demonstrates how stone itself shapes imagination and rigor, arguing for the sculptor’s hand to remain present from first strike...