Download or read book British Sculptors of the Twentieth Century written by Alan Windsor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published 2003. In the twentieth century, Britain was rich in artistic achievement, especially in sculpture. Just some of those working in this field were Jacob Epstein, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Anthony Caro, Richard Long, Mona Hatoum and Anish Kapoor. The work of these and other known and less well-known artists has an astonishing variety and expressive power, a range and strength that has placed Britain at the hub of the artistic world. Alan Windsor has compiled a concise biographical dictionary of sculpture in Britain in book form. Richly informative and easy-to-use, this guide is an art-lover's and expert's essential reference. Written by scholars, the entries are cross-referenced and each concise biographical outline provides the relevant facts about the artist's life, a brief characterization of the artist's work, and, where appropriate, major bibliographical references.
Download or read book British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century written by Sandy Nairne and published by Universe Pub. This book was released on 1984-09-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 20th Century Painters and Sculptors written by Frances Spalding and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1991 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the most prolific period of British art and bringing together a huge range of ideas, schools, styles and media, this dictionary of 7,000 artists, many not listed elsewhere, provides a unique and invaluable reference for anyone interested in the British art of this century.
Download or read book British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century written by Whitechapel Art Gallery and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1981 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery.
Download or read book Henry Moore Sculpting the 20th Century written by Dorothy M. Kosinski and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Moore (1898-1986) is arguably one of the most famous and beloved sculptors of the twentieth century, yet in recent decades his work has fallen out of favor in the world of contemporary art criticism. This handsome book examines this intriguing contradiction and seeks to reassess Moore's crucial contribution to art of the last century. Looking at Moore's early engagements with primitivism, his 1930s dialogue with abstraction and surrealism, and his postwar interest in large-scale public sculpture, the authors show how the sculptor helped to define some of the most significant aspects of modernism. The authors also contextualize within the polemics of early modernism Moore's emphasis on direct carving instead of modeling and the necessary balance between abstraction and what he called the "psychological human element". Moore's early sculpture -- largely unfamiliar to the general public -- is given particular attention, enabling the reader to explore the evolution of thematic and formal elements in his work and his ongoing response to different materials. Photographs, some by Moore himself, of over 120 works, including plasters, maquettes, carvings, bronzes, and drawings, are featured, many of which are previously unpublished.
Download or read book Aspects of Modern British Sculpture written by Philip Wright and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the post war years the British Council promoted a group of British sculptors on the prestigious stage of the Venice Biennale and at subsequent touring exhibitions across Europe, North and South America.0This was a pivotal moment in the history of 20th Century British Art and led to widespread international acclaim for the selected artists. This exhibition catalogue brings together a group of important sculptures by these artists, some which were exhibited at the Venice Biennales, some borrowed from private collections and not been seen publicly for many years.0The sculpture of this era has a power and resonance which continues to captivate collectors, museums, dealers and art historians alike.
Download or read book The Sculpture of Francis Derwent Wood written by Matthew Withey and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This final volume in the British Sculptors and Sculpture series addresses the work of the important but neglected British sculptor Francis Derwent Wood RA (1871-1926). A student of Edouard Lanteri at the Royal College of Art, Derwent Wood's early artistic career was distinguished. His reputation grew rapidly and a period as Director of Modelling at the Glasgow School of Art saw him working on public commissions with many of the city's most important architects. Simultaneously, he built his London practice, perfecting the art of the rapidly executed, observationally astute portrait bust, and becoming a well-connected member of the Chelsea set. He exhibited at the Royal Academy every year from 1895 until his death in 1926, becoming a full Academician in 1920. During the First World War he carried out pioneering work in the field of facial prosthetics. He was appointed Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 1918, where Henry Moore was amongst his many pupils. Derwent Wood's Machine Gun Corps memorial at Hyde Park Corner in London, completed in the year of his death, is amongst the best-known and most consistently reviled sculptures in Britain. Matthew Withey offers readers a subtle and layered interpretation of the career that led up to this iconic and misunderstood work, together with a comprehensive catalogue of Derwent Wood's diverse body of work.
Download or read book Henry Moore On Being a Sculptor written by Henry Moore and published by Tate Enterprises Ltd. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Spencer Moore (1898-1986) was arguably the most influential British sculptor of the twentieth century. Brought up in Castleford in Yorkshire, Moore ended his life completing commissions for large-scale public sculptures in countries around the world. The scale of Moore's success in later life has tended to obscure the radical nature of his achievement. Rejecting the influence of his teachers and inspired by works from other cultures he saw in museums, Moore championed direct carving, evolving abstract sculptures derived from the human body. He was involved in the modernist Seven and Give Society and later in Unit One. Written by Henry Moore in the 1930s, these three powerful, polemical texts lay out his ideas about sculpture, calling for truth to materials, openness to other sculptural traditions and understanding of the importance of scale. Illustrated with archival photographs and with an introduction by his daughter Mary Moore, this book gives new insights into Moore's working methods and inspiration and speaks directly to artists today.
Download or read book Post War and Contemporary British Art and Twentieth Century British Sculpture written by Sotheby's (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Working Against the Grain written by Pauline Rose and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lavishly illustrated, this ground-breaking book explores the work and context of a wide range of successful British women sculptors. Aspects addressed include artistic developments, training, exhibiting and written appraisals, examined via a wide range of sculptural forms such as domestic decorative work, portraits, statues, architectural sculpture, war memorials and ecclesiastical work.
Download or read book British Sculpture and Sculptors of Today written by Marion Harry Spielmann and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sculpture 1900 1945 written by Penelope Curtis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the significant growth of sculpture as an artistic form in Europe and America from 1900-1945. Using a clearly-defined thematic structure it identifies key issues and developments throughout this important period in the history of art. Individualchapters cover: public sculpture, the monument, the object, image-making, the built environment, the figurative ideal, and different materials. These themes broadly reflect the changing cultural and political climate of a turbulent period which included two world wars, each preceded by widespreadrising nationalism. The practice of sculpture is considered within the wider artistic context of painting and architecture and the development of international art markets. Auguste Rodin, whose ground-breaking exhibition opened in Paris in 1900, serves as the book's point of departure, and as arecurrent point of reference.
Download or read book The Sculpture of Austin Wright written by James Hamilton and published by Ben Uri Gallery & Museum. This book was released on 1994 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new monograph is published in the British Sculptors and Sculpture Series, under the general editorship of Sir Alan Bowness. It includes an illustrated essay, which place Wright's achievement in the context of British sculpture in the twentieth century and focuses on its links with science, and a profusely illustrated catalogue of Wright's complete sculpture, as well as catalogues of his prints and his sketchbooks.
Download or read book Modern British Sculpture written by Guy Portelli and published by Schiffer Art Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of modern sculpture developments in Great Britain, this beautiful book showcases 95 leading sculptors from the second half of the 20th century. It concentrates on the most influential, award-winning, and highly valued works from the growing field of popular sculpture availabe today. 780 color and black and white photographs display the wide range of materials, themes, styles, and settings that convey each sculptor's classical, figurative, abstract, or visionary work.
Download or read book The Fran and Ray Stark Collection of 20th century Sculpture at the J Paul Getty Museum written by Christopher Bedford and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue celebrates the recently installed collection of twentieth-century sculpture donated to the J. Paul Getty Trust by the Fran and Ray Stark Trust in 2005. The book takes the reader on a visual tour of the J. Paul Getty Museum's new sculpture gardens and installations, which features twenty-eight works by artists such as Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Ferdinand Leger, Roy Lichtenstein, Rene Magritte, Aristide Maillol, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, and Isamu Noguchi. The book offers essays on the curatorial decisions involved in establishing harmonious groupings; a history of European and American sculpture within built outdoor environments and gardens; and catalogue entries that discuss individual pieces within their broader art-historical contexts."
Download or read book From the Sculptor s Studio written by Ina Cole and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sculpture in 20th century Britain written by Penelope Curtis and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
