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Lynn Chadwick
This highly readable book provides a comprehensive survey of Chadwick's career: from his beginnings as an architectural designer in the 1930s, through his emergence as a major international sculptor in the 1950s, to his late, isolated pursuit of monumental bronze and steel sculpture in the 1980s and 1990s. It reassesses earlier critical positions on his work, and post-war British sculpture more generally, and offers a fresh perspective on all phases of his long and productive career. -- Book Jacket.
Lynn Chadwick
A leading modern British sculptor, Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) was celebrated for his abstracted figures of human and animal forms in welded steel and bronze. His work first attracted international attention at the 1952 Venice Biennale. Just four years later he became the youngest artist to be awarded the International Prize for Sculpture, which Alberto Giacometti had been expected to win. The paradox of Chadwick's long career is that, while his work later fell out of favor in his native Britain, he sustained a strong reputation abroad. The first book to set Chadwick's work in international context, Lynn Chadwick: A Sculptor on the International Stage sets out to change that. Art historians Mi...
Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor
Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) was one of the leading British sculptors of his generation. This illustrated catalogue raisonné of his sculpture is published in a revised and expanded edition which incorporates Chadwick's complete sculptural oeuvre up to his death in 2003 and all known additions and updates to the catalogue information on his work to the end of 2005.Chadwick began his career as an architectural draughtsman, but after the Second World War he took up sculpture without any formal training. He initially concentrated on mobiles, and these were followed by rough-finished metal structures supported on thin legs. He established his international reputation in 1956, when he won the Intern...
Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor
Lynn Chadwick RA (1914-2003) was one of the leading British sculptors of his generation. This essential illustrated catalogue raisonne of his sculpture is published in a new, fourth edition to coincide with Chadwick's centenary in 2014 and incorporates a new illustrated listing of his lithographs and jewellery, new reproductions of many of his sculptures (including some in colour), a completely new page design, and the most up-to-date catalogue information on his work."
Lynn Chadwick
The celebrated British artist, Lynn Chadwick (1914 - 2003) is renowned for his distinctive semi-abstract, angular iron sculptures of human and animal forms. He worked as an architectural draughtsman and designer and then served in the Royal Navy during WWII. His sculptural oeuvre began to develop most significantly in the post-war years.Chadwick exhibited work in the iconic Festival of Britain in 1951 and he was awarded the International Sculpture Prize for his exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 1956. This book documents the sculptures in the house and grounds of Lypiatt Park, where Lynn Chadwick lived in for over 40 years. It features an introduction written by the artist's daughter, Sarah Chadwick.Chadwick bought Lypiatt Park near Stroud, Gloucestershire in 1958 and spent many years restoring the house and grounds. In 1986 Chadwick purchased 250 acres of land and gradually began placing his monumental sculptures in the landscape, which became known as the Sculpture Park. Lypiatt Park has remained in the care of the family and it is now where his estate is based.
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