British sculpture in the twentieth century / edited by Sandy Nairne and Nicholas Serota.

Title & Author:

British sculpture in the twentieth century / edited by Sandy Nairne and Nicholas Serota.

Publication:

[London] : Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1981.

Description:

263 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-247).
Foreword / Sandy Nairne and Nicholas Serota -- The patronage and support of sculptors / Dennis Farr -- Classical and decorative sculpture / Ben Read -- Cubism and sculpture in England before the first World War / Jane Beckett -- War memorials / Richard Francis -- The primitive, objectivity and modernity: some issues in British sculpture in the 1920s / John Glaves-Smith -- Painting and sculpture in the 1920s / Richard Shone -- Overhead sculpture for the Underground Railway / Richard Cork -- Sculpture and the new "new movement" / Charles Harrison -- The surrealist object and surrealist sculpture / Anna Gruetzner -- Sculpture in the 1940s and 1950s: the form and the language / John Glaves-Smith -- Public sculpture in the 1950s / Richard Calvocoressi -- Constructivism after the second World War / Alastair Grieve -- New abstract sculpture and its sources / Lynne Cooke -- Figurative sculpture since 1960 / Timothy Hyman -- A rhetoric of silence: redefinitions of sclupture in the 1960s and 1970s / Stuart Morgan -- Constructed sculpture / Brendan Prendeville -- Symbols, presences and poetry / Fenella Crichton -- Selected bibliography -- Biographies -- Photograph sources.

Summary:

Catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0854880542 (pbk.)
9780854880546 (pbk.)

Subject:

Großbritannien Consulate Frankfurt am Main
Sculpture, British 20th century Exhibitions.
Sculpture, British 20th century.
Sculpture britannique 20e siècle.
Sculpture britannique 20e siècle Expositions.
Sculpture, British
Plastik
Ausstellung
Sculpture 20e siècle Angleterre (GB) Catalogues d'exposition.
British sculptures 1900-1981.

Form/genre:

Ausstellung London 1981.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
London (1981)

Added entries:

Nairne, Sandy, editor, writer of foreword.
Serota, Nicholas, editor, writer of foreword.
Whitechapel Art Gallery.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286862
Call No.: BIB 227391
Status: Available

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