Mother Stone - The Vitality Of Modern British Sculpture

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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 at the core of the effort to revitalize what in Britain had become a somnolent art? Wagner finds the answers to these questions at the intersection between the politics of maternity and sculptural innovation. She situates British sculpture fully within the new reality of "bio-power"--the realm of Marie Stopes, "Brave New World,"" "and Melanie Klein. And in a series of brilliant studies of key works, she offers a radical rereading of this sculpture's main concerns and formal language.

Product details

• Authors: Anne M. Wagner, Anne Middleton Wagner, Wagner Anne Middleton
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.09.2005
• EAN: 9780300106855
• ISBN: 978-0-300-10685-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 200 mm x 265 mm x 25 mm
• Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; Studies in British Art; The Association of Human Rights Institutes series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / Sculpture & Installation, sculpture, History of Art, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)