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Mother Stone: The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture
Anne Middleton Wagner
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Hardback. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 110 b&w illustrations, 60 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; ACXD; AFKB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 201 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1272.
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In Mother Stone Anne Middleton Wagner looks anew at the carvings of the first generation of British modernists, a group centered around Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and Jacob Epstein. Wagner probes the work of these sculptors, discusses their shared avant-garde materialism, and identifies a common theme that runs through their work and that of other artists of the period: maternity.
Why were artists for three turbulent decades after the First World War seemingly preoccupied with representations of pregnant women and the mother and child? Why was this the great new subject, especially for sculpture? Why was the imagery of bodily reproduction ... Read more
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
Series
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300106855
SKU
V9780300106855
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About Anne Middleton Wagner
Anne Middleton Wagner is professor of modern art, University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Sculptor of the Second Empire, published by Yale University Press, and of Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O’Keeffe.
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