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With works from 100 artists, this publication traces the art movements of an entire century. As early as 1914, a group of young artists blended influences from French Cubism and Italian Futurism into an independent British Modernism, and this text traces British art through the century.
"Phillip King is one of the most innovative and highly regarded sculptors at work in Britain today. Originally working in fibreglass, he has gone on to work on large- and small-scale metal sculpture, often coloured, combining different materials--fibreglass, plastic, steel, slate, wood and latterly bronze." "King's earliest works of sculpture were produced while he was still an undergraduate at Cambridge. At St Martin's School of Art, where he studied under Anthony Caro from 1957 to 1958, he began making clay and plaster sculpture of a Brutalist-Surrealist type. From 1958 to 1959 he worked as an assistant to Henry Moore and in summer 1959 travelled to Greece on a Boise Scholarship." "His fir...
Fusing history, imagination and the senses, Anatomy Acts explores the social, cultural and scientific significance of anatomy in Scotland over the past 500 years. How have we come to know ourselves through anatomical study? How has anatomy changed over the centuries and where is it heading? What contribution has Scotland made to the 'culture of anatomy'? How have the arts responded to the work of anatomists and surgeons? The range of Anatomy Acts is wide, setting the high points of Renaissance, Enlightenment and 19th-century enquiry alongside the latest medical imaging techniques and the work of contemporary artists and poets. Its publication coincides with a touring exhibition of the same n...
The monotype is a wholly unique work comparable to a painting, drawing or mixed technique. Due to its historical development, it maintains a link with the original art print solely in terms of their shared use of tools such as presses, inks, plates, rollers and paper.
A collection of three essays and one interview on the works of mathematical muralist Bernar Venet.