BOOKS ON MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY BRITISH SCULPTURE doc

Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Anthony Caro are key figures in the Royal Academy’s exhibition Modern British Sculpture 22 January to 7 April 2011, and all three sculptors feature pr

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Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Anthony Caro are key figures in the Royal Academy’s

exhibition Modern British Sculpture (22 January

to 7 April 2011), and all three sculptors feature prominently on our list.

Henry Moore’s work has been at the core of our publishing since the mid-1940s, when work began

on what was to become his complete catalogue

of sculpture, followed by the 7-volume catalogue

of his drawings Our list now includes definitive guides to his sculpture, drawings and writings (see p.2), as well as books on less well-known aspects

of his work, such as his textiles Tate Britain’s 2010 blockbuster retrospective of Moore’s sculpture and drawings travels to Leeds Art Gallery in March

2011, and is followed by exhibitions of his work

at Hatfield House (April) and the Hermitage, St Petersburg (May).

In May 2011, The Hepworth Wakefield opens

to the public: a brand new gallery space in Yorkshire housing at its core an important and unknown collection of working models by Barbara Hepworth We are delighted to be working in collaboration with The Hepworth and the artist’s

estate to publish Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters

(see p.3), the definitive guide to this fascinating collection.

Anthony Caro’s Early One Morning was one of the

works which heralded a revolution in sculpture

in the early 1960s, and it is featured in the Royal Academy’s exhibition But Caro has gone on

to produce a hugely varied and prolific body of work, which oscillates between abstraction and figuration, between open forms and architectural spaces, between large freestanding works and domestically sized pieces Our definitive series

of five volumes on his work, edited by American critic Karen Wilkin, offers the most comprehensive overview to date of his outstanding achievement (see p.4).

The co-curator of Modern British Sculpture,

Penelope Curtis, is also the Series Editor of our British Sculptors and Sculpture series, which documents the output of neglected 20th-century British sculptors On pp.5-6 we present a selection

of books from this series, together with other key sculpture reference books and monographs.

We hope that this tantalising selection of books will inspire you to contemplate the changing definition

of ‘sculpture’ in Britain over the last century.

Lucy Myers, Managing Director Spring 2011

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To celebrate a year of British sculpture exhibitions in the UK and

internationally, we are proud to present a selection of essential reference books

on Modern and Contemporary British Sculpture from Lund Humphries.

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Published in association with The Henry Moore Foundation Includes 346 colour illustrations July 2006, 360 pages, Paperback, 305 x 265 mm 978-0-85331-944-3

http://www.lundhumphries.com/isbn/9780853319443

£25.00/ $40.00

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The Drawings of henry Moore andrew Causey

Includes 110 colour and 30 b&w illustrations February 2010, 160 pagess, Hardback, 270 x 228 mm 978-1-84822-029-4

£25.00/ $50.00

henry Moore:

wriTings anD ConversaTions edited by alan wilkinson

Includes 153 b&w illustrations February 2002, 320 pages, Hardback, 243 x 205 mm 978-0-85331-847-7

http://www.lundhumphries.com/isbn/9780853318477 Not available in North America through Lund Humphries

£40.00

CelebraTing Moore:

works froM The ColleCTion of The henry Moore founDaTion David Mitchinson

Celebrating Moore is the biggest and

most comprehensive single volume

to be produced on the artist’s oeuvre, reproducing in colour over 250 of henry Moore’s most important sculptural works

originally published to celebrate the centenary of Moore’s birth in 1998, it is now available in paperback

David Mitchinson’s introductory essay traces the formation of the henry Moore Foundation’s Collection, the most important and comprehensive single group

of Moore’s work in all media – drawings, graphics and sculpture He explains the history of the foundation since its formation in 1977, Moore’s somewhat haphazard way of working, the confused ownership between the foundation and

Henry Moore’s Shelter Drawings are universally recognised as a key element of

his oeuvre However, these drawings should not be seen in isolation: this volume

provides a highly readable account of the development of Moore’s work as a

draughtsman so providing a well-rounded discussion of this significant aspect of his

artistic output

In 1953 Moore wrote, ‘there is a general idea that sculptors’ drawings should be

diagrammatic studies, without any sense of background behind the object or of any

atmosphere around it […] And yet the sculptor is as much concerned with space as

the painter.’ This statement gains resonance in the pages of this book – it becomes

clear that Moore’s drawing often ran ahead of his sculpture and that at certain points

he was exercising an almost parallel career exploring essentially pictorial ideas that

were difficult or even impossible to realise in sculpture

Including a wealth of colour reproductions, The Drawings of Henry Moore balances

Henry Moore’s writings constitute a vivid and comprehensive record of his life and work,

of the influences that shaped his vision, and of his reactions to the work of other artists, periods and cultures Spanning some seventy years, Moore’s writings and conversations are much more than documentary records of his life and times: they have considerable literary merit in their own right

This fascinating collection of Moore’s written and spoken words is the most comprehensive yet compiled, and contains much previously unpublished material It includes over 150 illustrations: photographs of the sculptures, drawings and prints discussed in the text, illustrations of works by other artists, and photographs of the sculptor and his environment

at various stages of his life

Henry Moore: Writings and Conversations completes and complements the catalogues

of his sculpture, drawings and prints It will be indispensable for scholars and engrossing reading for Moore enthusiasts worldwide

its trading company, the strengths and weaknesses of the Collection itself, and the evolution of the Foundation’s property at Perry Green

The core of the book consists of a selection

of 278 works from the Foundation’s Collection, illustrated in colour and with full catalogue information Extended captions have been contributed by a range

of distinguished artists, art critics and art historians – those who knew Moore or have previously written about him Their detailed analysis of so many of Moore’s sculptures and drawings adds significantly

to the understanding of his work

Celebrating Moore makes an essential

contribution to the study and appreciation

of Moore’s work – for scholars, art professionals and enthusiasts alike

‘This is a fascinating and revealing study written with admirable clarity.’

The art newspaper

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barbara hePworTh: The PlasTers

The gifT To wakefielD edited by sophie bowness with contributions by Sophie Bowness, David Chipperfield, Frances Guy, Jackie Heuman, Tessa Jackson, Simon Wallis and gordon watson

Published in association with The Hepworth Wakefield Includes 85 colour and 115 b&w illustrations April 2011, 200 pages, Hardback,260 x 220 mm 978-1-84822-066-9

£35.00/ $70.00

Published to coincide with the

opening of The Hepworth

Wakefield in May 2011

Features a fully illustrated catalogue

of a little-known collection of

44 plasters (and other prototypes)

by Barbara Hepworth, gifted to

The Hepworth Wakefield

by the Hepworth Estate

Presents new research into aspects

of the work of Barbara Hepworth

that have received little attention

previously

Makes extensive use of archival

material that has not been explored

in any depth previously, and

reproduces many fascinating

archival photographs, including

some which are previously

unpublished

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Celebrating the generous gift of Barbara Hepworth’s plasters to The Hepworth Wakefield

by the Hepworth Estate, this groundbreaking publication combines a fully illustrated catalogue

of the sculptor’s surviving prototypes in plaster, and a number also in aluminium and wood, with

a detailed analysis of her working methods and

a comprehensive history of her work in bronze

In addition, insights into the building which will

be home to the collection are provided through essays exploring the history of The Hepworth and, in a contribution by David Chipperfield, the design of the new museum by his architectural practice A fascinating account of the sculptor’s connections with Wakefield Art Gallery also features

The Hepworth’s collection of over forty unique, unknown sculptures are the surviving working

models from which editions of bronzes were cast They range in size from works that can

be held in the hand to monumental sculptures,

including the Winged Figure for John Lewis’s

Oxford Street headquarters The majority are original plasters on which the artist worked with her own hands and to scale Providing a unique insight into Hepworth’s working processes, on

which little has been written, Barbara Hepworth:

The Plasters will enhance appreciation of her work as a whole.

Drawing extensively on archival records and photographs, this publication is an important source for information about a significant collection of work, the gallery which houses

it and Hepworth in general An invaluable

resource, Barbara Hepworth: The Plasters will

appeal to the specialist and non-specialist alike.

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Anthony Caro’s works over the last two

decades have explored the relationship

between architecture and sculpture,

interior and exterior space Karen

Wilkin traces the development of this

avenue in Caro’s career, culminating in

the commission for St John the Baptist, Bourbourg, Pas-de-Calais This thirteenth-century building has been treated by the artist as a sculptural volume in which Caro has erected structures that penetrate and animate the space

anThony Caro:

inTerior anD eXTerior

karen wilkin

Includes 80 cololur and 14 b&w illustrations

2009, 152 pages, Hardback, 280 x 240 mm

978-1-84822-031-7

http://www.lundhumphries.com/

isbn/9781848220317

£30.00/ $80.00

anThony Caro:

Drawing in sPaCe

Mary reid

Includes 66 colour and 20 b&w illustrations

978-1-84822-030-0

isbn/9781848220300

£30.00/ $80.00

Anthony Caro’s linear sculptures are

‘drawings in space’ Here for the first time

Mary Reid addresses these pieces as a

coherent body, united by their character

of weightlessness Her insightful text

introduces the reader to the concept of

linear sculpture, and the plates serve to highlight this important aspect of the sculptor’s career Caro’s use of colour and his shifting attitude to various materials are also discussed to enhance the reader’s appreciation of this stylistic form

This is a set of Anthony Caro: Drawing

in Space, Anthony Caro: Interior and Exterior, Anthony Caro: Figurative and Narrative Sculpture, Anthony Caro: Small

packaged in a box specially designed by the artist

limited availability

anThony Caro:

boXeD seT

2010, 978-1-84822-057-7

£120.00/ $240.00

This book surveys Caro’s free-standing, floor-based, constructed, abstract sculptures from 1960 to the present The unifying theme of these works is that they answer Caro’s imperative ‘to make something that was as important in a room

as a person’ The author explores the idea

of presence in Caro’s sculpture, focusing

on how, in order to invest sculpture with an independent existence and self-contained reality, it was necessary for Caro to purge it

of figurative references

anThony Caro:

PresenCe

Paul Moorhouse

2010, 152 pages, Hardback, 280 x 240 mm 978-1-84822-053-9

isbn/9781848220539

£30.00/ $80.00

Though Anthony Caro’s oeuvre is most readily identified by large-scale, plinthless sculptures that sometimes dwarf the viewer, he has directed a significant portion of his energies for over four decades to the production of domestically

sized pieces in a variety of media This volume explores this aspect of Caro’s prolific output, covering: Table Sculptures, Writing Pieces, Ceramics, Bronzes, Paper Sculptures, Lead and Wood Sculptures, Silver Pieces and Jewellery

anThony Caro:

sMall sCulPTures

H.F Westley Smith

2010, 152 pages Hardback, 280 x 240 mm 978-1-84822-051-5

isbn/9781848220515

£30.00/ $80.00

anThony Caro:

figuraTive anD

narraTive sCulPTure

Julius Bryant

Over the past two decades Anthony Caro

has moved on from the steel sculptures

with which he achieved international

standing to explore the unknown ground

where abstract, figurative and narrative art

artist determined to be provocative

Rather, these more recent works share many of the concerns of Caro’s celebrated sculptures and provide a fresh perspective from which to recognise essential qualities

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Anthony Caro’s work, over six decades, has always

been unmistakably ‘Caro’, but it has posited many

different – often unprecedented – notions of

what sculpture can be In order to distinguish the

multiple strands that run through this inventive

artist’s evolution, we decided on a multiple volume

format with each volume dedicated to a different

aspect of his work, each by a different critic, with

an individual point of view The most challenging

part of the project for me, as the author of one

volume and overall editor, working closely with

my international colleagues, was to ensure that

we discussed all the most significant aspects of Caro’s astonishing body of work, underscoring the constants and the variables in his distinctive approach, while, at the same time, avoiding repetition I think we’ve succeeded Each volume stands alone but together they offer the most comprehensive overview, to date, of Caro’s remarkable achievement.

Karen Wilkin, Editor of the definitive 5-volume series on the sculpture of Anthony Caro

Includes 55 colour and 23 b&w illustrations

978-1-84822-032-4

isbn/9781848220324

£30.00/ $80.00

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William Tucker (b 1935) is a British-born sculptor who moved to North America in 1976 and became an American citizen in 1986 Tucker began making sculpture in the late 1950s and came to public prominence in the New Generation 1965 exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London Moving to the US, Tucker established his reputation in a newly expressive and increasingly bodily sculptural form This is the first major monograph on his work and includes a complete catalogue of his sculpture to date It will be essential reading for artists, art historians, curators, dealers and all those with an interest in the recent history and current practice of sculpture

The sCulPTure of williaM TuCker

Joy Sleeman

The British Sculptors and Sculpture Series Includes 12 colour and 260 b&w illustrations August 2007, 192 pages, Hardback, 290 x 240 mm 978-0-85331-926-9

£35.00/ $70.00

The sCulPTure of gerTruDe herMes Jane Hill

A graduate of Leon Underwood’s Brook Green School of Art in London, Gertrude Hermes (1901–83) trained as a painter and sculptor Hermes and her husband, Blair Hughes-Stanton, whom she met at Brook Green, went on to become leading lights in the early twentieth-century’s wood-engraving revival: their exuberant visual inventions for Bunyan’s

The Pilgrim’s Progress and T.E Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom bringing them critical

acclaim, though the marriage was short-lived

The Sculpture of Gertrude Hermes presents for the first time a full analysis of the artist’s

entire sculptural oeuvre Along with a comprehensive catalogue of Hermes’ sculpture, Jane Hill provides a full account of the artist’s life in the context of her career as a sculptor

What results is a picture of a pioneering spirit who created busts and heads, decorative work and reliefs which display dynamism and unpredictability

Featuring over 150 images, The Sculpture of Gertrude Hermes is a groundbreaking study

of an artist so long associated with one art form This book redresses the imbalance and creates a new and fresh perspective on an important female artist of the twentieth century

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The sCulPTure of JoHN SkEAPING Jonathan Blackwood

While his career spanned six decades, John Skeaping (1901–1980) is often associated with the work he completed while he was married to Barbara Hepworth However, this period

of just six years (1926 to 1932) ignores the breadth of Skeaping’s visual output and fails to reflect his true artistic legacy

Long overdue, The Sculpture of John Skeaping surveys the artist’s rich career in the round

Alongside discussion of Skeaping’s best-known animalier works, including the well-known series of ‘exotic’ animals for Wedgwood, Jonathan Blackwood also provides insights into the artist’s working practices, as developed under the tutelage of Francis Derwent Wood, and the diverse commissions that he undertook after the close of the Second World War

Including a full catalogue of Skeaping’s sculptures with over 200 reproductions of the

artist’s works, The Sculpture of John Skeaping is essential reading for all those interested in

learning more about this unjustly neglected figure within British sculpture

The British Sculptors and Sculpture Series Includes 12 colour and 210 b&w illustrations April 2011, 152 pages, Hardback, 290 x 240 mm 978-0-85331-931-3

£45.00/ $90.00

The British Sculptors and Sculpture Series Includes 12 colour and 154 b&w illustrations August 2011, 144 pages, Hardback, 290 x 240 mm 978-0-85331-865-1

£45.00/ $90.00

The Sculpture of Reg Butler is the first book to provide an overview of Butler’s sculpture

from 1949 (his first solo show) to his death in 1981, and to catalogue and illustrate all extant works Margaret Garlake analyses the development, themes and visual and intellectual origins of the sculpture; considers why butler has been largely ignored since the early 1960s; examines his studio practice and sculptural techniques, and assesses his work in the context of that of his contemporaries

The sCulPTure of reg buTler

Margaret garlake

The British Sculptors and Sculpture Series Includes 12 colour and 268 b&w illustrations

£35.00/ $70.00

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The sCulPTure of gerTruDe herMes

Jane Hill

s c u l p t u R E M o n o g R a p h s & R E f E R E n c E

A leading artist whose first one-person show took place at London’s Serpentine Gallery in 1975, Rome is most commonly associated with bold and open abstract shapes, often in public spaces and often in steel His contemporaries are sculptors Phillip King, Tim Scott, Katherine Gili and Justin Knowles, and Rome himself cites

as fundamental to his outlook the example of Anthony Caro, a generation older and

a common factor in the careers of all these sculptors Rome’s work is also visibly influenced by post-war modernist American art, in particular the sculpture of David Smith

Martin Holman relates Rome’s development as a sculptor to the changing scene of sculptural practice, from the contrasting traditions of modernism and the figurative, through the influences of New Generation sculpture in the mid-1960s and the onslaught of Conceptualism and Minimalism at the end of the decade

This is the first illustrated overview of the forty-year career of British sculptor Richard Rome (b.1943), who has made an important contribution to the development of modernist metal sculpture since the 1960s

riCharD roMe

Martin holman

Includes 80 illustrationss March 2011, 96 pages, Hardback, 297 x 245 mm 978-1-84822-081-2

£30.00/ $60.00

This illustrated catalogue raisonné of his sculpture incorporates Chadwick’s complete sculptural oeuvre up to his death in 2003 and all known additions and updates to the catalogue information on his work to the end of 2005

Chadwick took up sculpture without any formal training He initially concentrated

on mobiles, and these were followed

by rough-finished metal structures supported on thin legs He established his international reputation in 1956, when he won the international Prize for sculpture

at the Venice Biennale He consistently worked in welded iron and was constantly

intrigued by human and animal forms: no matter how abstract the sculpture became

at times, it was always firmly rooted in a deep understanding of the natural world This indispensable reference book includes a comprehensive list of Chadwick’s exhibitions, the public collections he is represented in, and a full biography, alongside the fully illustrated complete catalogue of his sculpture The introductory essay by Dennis Farr, which draws on interviews with the artist, examines Chadwick’s development as a sculptor and his sculptural techniques

lynn ChaDwiCk sCulPTor wiTh a CoMPleTe

illusTraTeD CaTalogue 1947–2005

Dennis farr and Éva Chadwick

Includes 965 b&w illustrations

£85.00/ $170.00

briTish sCulPTors of The TwenTieTh CenTury

edited by alan windsor

Includes 86 b&w illustrations

£115.00

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

f o R t h c o M I n g

bill wooDrow

Julia kelly and Jonathan Wood

CaTalogue raisonnÉ

of sCulPTure edited by annette ratuszniak

Tiêu đề	Books on Modern and Contemporary British Sculpture
Tác giả	David Mitchinson
Trường học	Lund Humphries
Chuyên ngành	Modern British Art
Thể loại	Essay
Năm xuất bản	2011
Thành phố	Lund

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