Penelope Curtis

After Nora

This series explores the life and work of major artists associated with St Ives. Barbara Hepworth's career as a sculptor spanned five decades, from 1920s to 1975. Her style developed from figurative to geometric to abstract, culminating in the grandeur of her large-scale post-war work. Her best-known work is associated with the landscape around St Ives in Cornwall, where she lived for most of her working life. Hepworth remains a central figure in twentieth-century art, and this book tells the story of her life and artistic development. It gives an up-to-date overview of the latest critical thought.

Barbara Hepworth

St. Ives Artists

Ann Coxon

Sérgio B. Martins

A. S. C. Rower

Alex J. Taylor

Marko Daniel

Thomas Fichter

Vassilis Oikonomopoulos

An insightful new look at one of the 20th century's most celebrated artistic visionaries Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is one of modernism's most captivating and influential figures. First trained as a mechanical engineer, Calder relocated from New York to Paris in the mid-twenties where his acceptance into the city's burgeoning avant-garde circles coincided with the development of his characteristic form of kinetic sculpture. His early work Cirque Calder, which was presented throughout Paris to great acclaim, prefigures the performance and theatrical aspects that dominate Calder's pioneering artistic works and are situated as a primary subject of intrigue in this publication. Rather than simply refashion sculpture's traditional forms, Calder envisioned entirely new possibilities for the medium and transformed its static nature into something dynamic and responsive. Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture provides detailed insight into that pioneering process through reproductions of personal drawings and notes. Also featured is new research from a wide range of renowned scholars, furthering our understanding of the remarkable depth of Calder's beloved mobile sculptures and entrenching his status as an icon of modernism.

Performing Sculpture

Alexander Calder

Christopher Townsend

Stephen Feeke

Nicholas Pope

Adriaan van Ravesteijn

Andrew Sabin

Throughout his varied career, Nicholas Pope's multivalent sculpture has explored the inherent physical qualities of the materials that he shapes and carves. From his earlier art to his more recent exploration with abstraction, this lavishly produced title presents a substantial overview of the artist's work.British artist Nicholas Pope was best known in the 1970s and early 1980s for his large-scale sculptures made of wood, metal, stone, sheet lead or chalk.Following his 1980 exhibition representing Britain at the Venice Biennale, Pope was awarded a Cultural Visitor grant to Zimbabwe and Tanzania; an experience that affected the rest of his life and twisted his artistic practice completely.In a move towards softer, more malleable materials such as glass, porcelain, texture, moulded aluminium and ceramics, Pope began to make abstract works that reference complicated themes of religion, suicide and society.The first comprehensive monograph on the artist, this publication features over 75 colour illustrations alongside an introduction to the artist by Penelope Curtis, an analysis of the work's religious themes by Christopher Townsend and Andrew Sabin's exploration of Pope's recent work.

John O'Regan

Daphne Wright

Simon Morrisey

Isabel Nolan

Including essays and an interview, this work presents an overview of the artist's work.

This book examines the fundamental similarities shared by all sculptures, regardless of the culture or time period in which they were created. Focusing on a wide range of British and European examples, of many periods, Penelope Curtis explores crucial sculptural concepts such as the vertical and the horizontal, the open and the closed. In doing so, she elucidates the powerful, and often surprising, properties of objects made in vastly different sociocultural contexts. Sculpture also expands the notion of sculpture to include the objects of everyday life and investigates the ways in which we approach sculpture as an art form. Stressing the fact that sculpture has been historically linked with rites of passage and moments of change and transformation, this revelatory study argues that the experience of sculpture is a universal and primal phenomenon that cuts across particular historical styles and epochs.

Sculpture Vertical, Horizontal, Closed, Open

Tate Britain (Gallery)

Anna Moszynska

Alison Wilding

Carmen Juliá

British artist Alison Wilding's innovative sculptures combine various forms and techniques to defuse and challenge the viewer's expectations.This volume explores over 20 works by the artist and is drawn from Wilding's ambitious display at the Duveen Galleries, Tate Britain, London, 12 November 2013 - 9 February 2014. Each of the five major works on display brings together contrasting materials - from copper and alabaster to rubber and PVC - whilst testing the relationship between scale and weight.Alongside 70 illustrations and an interview between the artist and curator Carmen Julía, a survey text by Anna Moszynska groups the works in relation to the sculptures made by Wilding throughout her over 30-year career.

Vanish & Detail

Exhibition catalogue exploring the relationship between art in two and three dimensions, "Sculpture in painting" is not so much concerned with comparing the two disciplines, but the dialogue between them. The exhibition, the first at the Henry Moore Institute to consist only of paintings, brings together some thirty works from the 1500s to the present day, by a range of influential artists including Titian, Hogarth, Vuillard and Henning. Exhibition: Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 9 October 2009 - 10 January 2010.

On the Meanings of Sculpture in Painting

Tate Gallery

Tate Gallery Liverpool

From the Collection

Modern British Sculpture

J. Paul Getty Museum

John Dixon Hunt

Christopher Bedford

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 Léger, Roy Lichtenstein, René Magritte, Aristide Maillol, Joan Miró, 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.

The Fran and Ray Stark Collection of 20th-century Sculpture at the J. Paul Getty Museum

Elective Affinities

Penelope Curtis

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