Renowned for his monumental sculpture created primarily for open-air public locales, Hans Van de Bovenkamp has been described as an artistic-mystic whose work--with its signature power, lyricism, and grand proportions--heightens the viewer's sense of fantasy, imagination, and discovery. From the primordial human urge to make 'sacred space,' Van de Bovenkamp has created a oeuvre significant for the way his decisions about scale, material, content, and form dynamically interact with the natural and architectural world that surrounds his sculptures. Cascading water becomes a curtain in 'Ottowa Falls;' with their sinuous, animated curves, his giant cloud and fiddlehead forms function as metaphors for the vital life force in all organic forms; his circle and wave series balances floating, lyrical units above anchored ring-like forms, denoting the sun, the moon, the ocean. And his bronze and stainless steel Menhirs--with their indistinguishable eroticism and spirituality--look back to the prehistoric, sacred, upright monumental stones built in the Neolithic and Early Bronze ages. This vivid monograph includes ninety-four color plates and a detailed chronology richly highlighted by the artist's personal recollections, as well as illuminating essays on Van de Bovenkamp's creation of sacred space, his monumental sculpture in natural and architectural environments." -- Provided by publisher