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Barbara Hepworth : a retrospective

Barbara Hepworth : a retrospective

Curtis, Penelope, author.
Book 1994

Barbara Hepworth's career spanned five decades, from 1925 to 1975. Her style moved from figuration, through geometric and organic abstraction, to the internationally acclaimed grandeur of her large-scale, post-war work. Her best known sculpture is associated with the landscape around St. Ives in Cornwall: 'I used colour and strings in many of the carvings ... The colour plunged me into the depths of water, caves or shadows deeper than the carved...

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ISBN:
9781854371416
185437141X
Description:
168 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm
Notes:
Published to accompany an exhibition organised by Tate Gallery Liverpool and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1994-1995
"Tate Gallery Liverpool, 14 September-4 December 1994; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 4 February-9 April 1995; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 19 May-7 August 1995."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161)
Contents:
Barbara Hepworth and the Avant Garde of the 1920s / Penelope Curtis
The 1930s: Constructive Forms and Poetic Structure / Alan G. Wilkinson
Cornwall and the Sculpture of Landscape: 1939-1975 / Alan G. Wilkinson
The Artist in Post-War Britain / Penelope Curtis
A Chronology of Public Commissions
LCCN:
94240160 * 95133270
Control Number:
56561
Other Authors:
Art Gallery of Ontario
Hepworth, Barbara, 1903-1975
Tate Gallery Liverpool
Wilkinson, Alan G., 1941-
Yale Center for British Art
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