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Informationen zum Autor Denise Ferran is a painter and art historian. She has curated many seminal exhibitions including W.J. Leech: An Irish Painter Abroad at the National Gallery of Ireland. She was an advisor in the construction of the F.E. McWilliam Gallery and Studio at Banbridge and curated the inaugural exhibition in 2008. Valerie Holman is an art historian who writes on 20th-century painting, sculpture, print and publishing. Her study of the war years, Print for Victory: Book Publishing in England 1939-1945 , was published in 2008. Klappentext A highly respected sculptor, F.E. McWilliam (1909-1992) was described by Bryan Robertson in 1992 as 'one of the truest artists to work in England this century'. Yet despite achieving great acclaim in his lifetime, McWilliam's contribution to modern art has been unduly neglected in recent years. This book, the first to include a comprehensive catalogue of the artist's sculpture, re-establishes McWilliam's considerable artistic reputation. Zusammenfassung A highly respected sculptor, F.E. McWilliam (1909-1992) was described by Bryan Robertson in 1992 as 'one of the truest artists to work in England this century'. Yet despite achieving great acclaim in his lifetime, McWilliam's contribution to modern art has been unduly neglected in recent years. This book, the first to include a comprehensive catalogue of the artist's sculpture, re-establishes McWilliam's considerable artistic reputation. F.E. McWilliam defied categorisation: his long and productive career resulted in a body of work which was impressively varied. His move away from Surrealism and a form of biomorphic abstraction which placed him within a particular artistic milieu, enabled him to explore specific materials and themes with freedom. While he remained continuously inventive, at the heart of his work lies a feeling for the human figure, not just as an object of perception but as a vehicle of sensation. His sculpture conveys precisely how certain movement or emotion is experienced and it is characterised by a sense of contained energy, of imminent movement, or of rest that is only temporary and short-lived. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface! Lisa Le Feuvre; Essays on F.E. McWilliam - Introduction; 1. A Modern Sculptor in the Making (1909-1949); 2. Public Recognition and Critical Acclaim (1950-1959); 3. Complexity and Contradiction in Sculpture (1960-1992)! Valerie Holman; Catalogue of Sculpture! Denise Ferran; Chronology! Solo Exhibitions! Group Exhibitions; Works in Selected Public Collections; Selected Bibliography - Chronological List of Publications Relating to Catalogue of Sculpture! List of Works Cited in the Essay; Acknowledgements; Index. ...
