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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 concavities themselves.
The strings were the tension I felt between myself and the sea, the wind or the hills.'. This publication focuses on Hepworth's unique carvings. It reassesses her reputation in the light of attention recently paid to her contemporaries, Ben Nicholson and Henry Moore and offers the opportunity to look afresh at a major British artist.
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Exhibitions, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Individual artists, Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms, Hepworth, Barbara,, Art, Tate Gallery - Exhibition Catalogs, Biography / Autobiography, Dame,, Artists, Architects, Photographers, Individual Artist, Hepworth, Barbara, 1903-1975, Sculptors, PlastikShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Barbara Hepworth: sculpture for a modern world
2015, Tate Publishing, Division of Tate Enterprises, Tate
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Barbara Hepworth: A Retrospective
June 1997, Tate Gallery Pubn
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Barbara Hepworth: a retrospective
1994, Tate Gallery Publications
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 161).
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."
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From its simple origins in her studio, Barbara Hepworth's abstract sculpture has become iconic, taking pride of place in museum collections worldwide and outside buildings such as the UN headquarters in New York. Celebrated throughout her career in Britain, she was also a leading figure in international modern art. This major exhibition charts her progress from the earliest surviving carvings to the large-scale bronzes of the 1960s. Among the highlights are four large sculptures in sumptuous African hardwood - the high point of her post-war carving career - reunited in one room. Uniquely, this retrospective shows the way Hepworth's work was presented or imagined in contexts such as the studio, the theatre, the landscape or with architecture. Alongside sculpture, it features rarely seen textiles, photographs, collages and film, and selected works by her peers and predecessors from Jacob Epstein to Henry Moore.--Tate website.
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