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Sculpture 2019 ADVENTURES IN 3 DIMENSIONS: 20TH CENTURY SCULPTURE IN BRITAIN ! Michael Ayrton: Arkville Minotaur 1968-9 I became a sculptor to make things real. (Henry Moore) ARTISTS" Alfred Gilbert 1854-1934 Anthony Caro 1924-2013 Frederic Leighton 1830-96 Elisabeth Frink 1930-93 Hamo Thorneycroft 1850-1925 Barbara Hepworth 1903-75 George Frederic Watts 1817-1904 Henry Moore 1898-1986 Eduardo Paolozzi 1924-2005 Jacob Epstein 1880-1959 Frank Dobson 1888-1963 Tony Cragg b.1949 Henri Gaudier-Brzeska 1891-1915 Antony Gormley b.1950 Eric Gill 1882-1986 David Nash b.1945 Cornelia Parker b.1956 Michael Ayrton 1921-75 FURTHER READING Susan Beattie The New Sculpture 1983 Yale University Press Andrew Causey Sculpture since 1945 (Oxford History of Art) 1998 Oxford University Press Penelope Curtis Sculpture 1900-1945 (Oxford History of Art) 1999 Oxford University Press Penelope Curtis & Keith Wilson Modern British Sculpture 2011 Royal Academy Herbert George The Elements of Sculpture 2014 Phaidon D.J. Getsey Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modern Ideal in Britain Ashgate Publishing 2004 Alison Stace Sculpture Parks and Trails of Great Britain and Ireland 2013 A&C Black Visual Arts William Tucker The Language of Sculpture (new ed.) Thames & Hudson 1992 There is also an excellent series published by Lund Humphries in association with the Henry Moore Foundation: British Sculptors and Sculpture, which includes monographs of many less familiar artists. FURTHER EXPLORATIONS The increasing number of Sculpture Parks in this country provide opportunities to see sculpture in what many of the makers regarded as its natural habitat – the landscape. Among the best are: • The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, St Ives, Cornwall • The Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood. • The Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green, Hertfordshire • The Ironbridge Open Air Museum of Steel Sculpture, Telford, Shropshire • The New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Roche Court, Wiltshire • Sausmarez Manor Art Park, Guernsey • The Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (you might also take the opportunity to visit the Hepworth Wakefield - not a sculpture park, but with a wonderful collection of modern art and many of Hepworth’s maquettes and working models.) And in addition – keep your eyes open wherever you go. City, town and country – there’s more sculpture out there than you might think! SLIDE LIST Slide 1: Leslie Illingworth ‘Inspiration’ (Modern British Sculpture) 1953 [Daily Mail] Slide 2: It takes courage to be a sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound 1914 (marble) [National Gallery of Art, Washington DC] Michael Ayrton Watching Figure 1954 (bronze) [Private Collection] Henry Moore Hill Arches 1972-3 (bronze) [Henry Moore Foundation, Herts] Slide 3: How something feels Hamo Thorneycroft Oliver Cromwell 1895-99 (bronze) [Houses of Parliament] Elisabeth Frink Walking Madonna 1981 (bronze) [Salisbury Cathedral] Slide 4: Because I have something to say Frederic Leighton Athlete Wrestling with a Python 1877 (bronze) [Tate Britain] George Frederic Watts Physical Energy 1902 (bronze) [Kensington Gardens] Slide 5: Stay what is fleeting Alfred Gilbert Shaftsbury Memorial (Eros) 1886-93 (bronze & aluminium) George Frampton Peter Pan 1912 (bronze) [Kensington Gardens] Slide 6: Stone in its inmost being Hamo Thorneycroft Joy of Life 1895 (bronze) [Private Collection] Eric Gill Joie de Vivre (A Roland for an Oliver) 1910 (Hoptonwood stone) [University of Hull] Slide 7: Synonymous with art atrocity Jacob Epstein Infancy 1908 (plaster model for stone) [Original carvings on Zimbabwe House, The Strand] Figure in Flenite 1913 (Serpentine stone) [Tate Britain] Portrait of Einstein 1933 (bronze) [V&A] Slide 8: Sculptural energy ... Sculptural feeling Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Red Stone Dancer 1913-14 (Red Mansfield stone) [Tate Britain] Sleeping Fawn 1913 (painted plaster from original marble) [Tate Britain] Bird Swallowing Fish 1914 (painted plaster) [Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge] Slide 9: Each piece is a sort of vessel Jacob Epstein Rock Drill (Torso) 1913-16 (bronze) [Tate Britain] Frank Dobson Manchild 1921 (marble) [Tate Britain] Slide 10: Art should have a certain mystery Henry Moore Large Upright Internal/External Form 1981-2 (bronze) [Henry Moore Foundation] A Suckling Child 1930 (alabaster) [Pallant House, Chichester] Stringed Figure 1958-60 (bronze & strings) [Tate Britain] Slide 11: An expression of the significance of life Henry Moore King and Queen 1952-3 (bronze) [Glenkiln Estate, Dumfries & [Tate Britain] Slide 12: A deep, strong, fundamental struggle Henry Moore Recumbent Figure 1938 (Green Hornton stone) [Tate Britain] Barbara Hepworth Mother and child 1934 (Cumberland alabaster) [Tate Britain] Slide 13: Forms conveying emotion Barbara Hepworth Ball, Plane and Hole 1936 (teak & oak) [Tate Britain] Monolith (Empyrean) 1953 (blue Irish limestone) [Kenwood House] Stringed Figure (Curlew II) 1956 (brass & strings) [Tate Britain] Slide 14: Art feeds the spirit Anthony Caro Early One Morning 1962 (painted steel & aluminium) [Tate Britain] Slide 15: Something watching Elisabeth Frink Bird 1952 (bronze) [Tate Britain] Riace I 1986-9 (bronze) [Yorkshire Sculpture Park] Goggle Head 1969 (bronze) [Ingram Collection, Woking] Prisoner 1988 (bronze) [Bristol City Museum] Slide 16: An accumulation of ideas Eduardo Paolozzi Cyclops 1957 (bronze) [Tate Britain] Michael Ayrton Arkville Minotaur 1968-9 (bronze) [Guildhall School of Music terrace, Barbican] Slide 17: A kind of semi-organised flux Cornelia Parker Cold, Dark Matter ~ An Exploded View 1991 [Tate Britain] Antony Gormley Quantum Cloud 2000 (steel) [River Thames, Greenwich] Slide 18: To push and move and grow Tony Cragg Here Today, Gone Tomorrow 2002 (stone) [Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood] David Nash Black Dome 1986 (charred oak) [Forest of Dean, Glos.] Andy Goldsworthy Ice Spiral (Treesoul) 1988 (river ice, tree, leaves and snow) [created Dumfriesshire, Scotland; ephemeral] Slide 18: An instrument for thinking Jacob Epstein Jacob and the Angel 1940-41 (alabaster) [Tate Britain] Antony Gormley Angel of the North 1995-8 (steel & concrete) [Gateshead] Slide 19: Sufficient explanation in itself Barbara Hepworth Conversation with Magic Stones 1973 (bronze) [Tate Gallery ~ Hepworth Museum, St Ives] FINAL THOUGHTS: My sculpture is sufficient explanation in itself. (Jacob Epstein) A sculpture might, and sculptures do, reside in emptiness, but nothing happens until the living human encounters the image. (Barbara Hepworth) Art is an instrument for thinking. (Antony Gormley).
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