The first major retrospective of the work of Alexander Calder (1898-1976) in the UK for twenty years opens at Tate Modern in November 2015. Calder was one of the most popular American artists of the 20th century.
An extensive look at the formally inventive, Turner Prize-winning sculptor. schovat popis
Bethan Huws (geb. 1961 in Wales, lebt in Paris, Teilnahme an der Biennale Venedig 2003 im Walisischen Pavillon) Das Buch beinhaltet erstmals ausschliesslich ihre bisher wenig bekannten Textarbeiten, darunter „The Lake Writtings“ (1991) „Words“ (1998) und das jüngste Werk „Ion On“ (2003).
A new and comprehensive analysis of the expansion of sculpture as an artistic form in Europe and the United States from 1900 to 1945. Well-known artists such as Brancusi, Arp, Tatlin & Duchamp are covered alongside less familiar sculptors to provide a full picture of the diverse development of sculpture in this important period.
Alison Wildings' work features innovative conceptual sculptures that blend various forms and techniques, showcasing her unique artistic vision. The pieces often explore the interplay between materials and space, inviting viewers to engage with the intricate details and the emotions they evoke. Through her art, Wildings challenges traditional boundaries, offering a fresh perspective on sculpture that emphasizes both aesthetic beauty and conceptual depth.
Exploring the connections between diverse sculptural forms, this book highlights shared fundamental functions among various three-dimensional objects, from sundials to contemporary art. Penelope Curtis emphasizes how these works influence our understanding of rites of passage and the viewer's experience. By examining qualities like verticality and openness, the text challenges traditional distinctions between figurative and abstract art, inviting readers to reconsider the nature and impact of sculpture in our lives.
Penelope Curtis reimagines the life of her grandmother Nora, a painter whom she never knew but whose works she grew up with. Bridging three generations and spanning a century, her ambitious debut novel also investigates the relationship between her father and his fellow biologist Maria de Sousa.
Henry Spencer Moore (1898–1986) was one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century. This catalogue considers Moore’s celebrated Shelter drawings as the point of departure for a new reading of the artist’s fascination with images of walls, during and immediately after World War II.
"In The Pliable Plane, curator and historian Penelope Curtis traces the ways sculpture infiltrated architectural thought over the post-war period. Her study identifies the wall as a particular locus of creative thinking – a surface which produces both continuity and separation, and which similarly unites and distinguishes the two disciplines. Surveying a series of walls – carved, cast, applied, imagined, and even conceptual – in such places as bomb shelters, caves, war memorials, and public buildings, Curtis introduces a cast of renowned and lesser-known practitioners who defined the three-dimensional conception of the years 1945 to 1970. With close readings of the work and lives of Henry Moore, Anni Albers, Frederick Kiesler, Jorge Oteiza, and Mary Martin, among others, Curtis’s fluid and perspicacious history encompasses the developments of wartime production, the discovery of the Lascaux Caves, and the rise of relief art. Turning away from familiar pairings and dichotomies, it considers spaces and surfaces of coalescence and influence. Curtis compels us to understand the wall as support as much as partition, arguing for the centrality of this very pliability to the entwined development of both sculpture and architecture."
