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Modern British sculpture
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Considering the way in which sculpture mediates issues of national identity and how Britain's links with its Empire have shaped its artistic output, this survey explores sculpture in Britain over t...
Considering the way in which sculpture mediates issues of national identity and how Britain's links with its Empire have shaped its artistic output, this survey explores sculpture in Britain over the last 130 years.
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- edited by Penelope Curtis and Keith Wilson
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- Language
- English
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- London : Royal Academy of Arts ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [2011]
- ©2011
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- 314 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 1905711727, 9781905711727, 1905711735, 9781905711734
- OCLC
- ocn657596014
- "First published on the occasion of the exhibition ... Royal Academy of Arts, London, 22 January - 7 April 2011"-- T. p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- British British sculpture sculpture / Penelope Curtis -- Let there be history: Epstein's BMA house sculptures / Sarah Crellin -- The cenotaph / Catherine Moriarty -- Looking around at leisure: sculptors and the British Museum / Adrian Locke -- Stone, sex and empire: direct carving and "British sculpture" / Sarah Victoria Turner -- Authority figures / Martina Droth -- "Plastic art in its most abstract essence": pottery and art in the interwar years / Simon Ford -- The centre of modern sculpture: some thoughts on Hepworth and Moore / Arie Hartog -- On the status of the space frame / Jeffrey Steele -- Anthony Caro, "Early one morning" / Alex Potts -- From land art to the anthropocene / Joy Sleeman -- The absence of a mother tongue / Alastair Rider -- The rise of the object: dispatches from the war on form / Jon Thompson -- Gillick, Opie, Turnbull (Opie, Gillick) / Mark Wilsher -- Keith Wilson