Anthony Caro - Softcover

Moorhouse, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854375091 ISBN 13: 9781854375094

Publisher: Tate, 2005

Synopsis

Anthony Caro is widely regarded as Britain's greatest living sculptor and has enjoyed an international reputations since the early 1960s. Although best known for his work in steel, Caro has also worked in bronze, wood, lead, ceramics and paper, on both large and intimate scales. In 1960 he began making purely abstract sculptures constructed and welded in steel, comprising beams, girders and other elements painted in bright colours. The exhibition of these works at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1963 caused a sensation and heralded a revolution in sculpture. Within a short period conventional ideas about materials, method, surface, scale, form and space were overturned by his radical reworking of all these elements.

About this title

About the Author:

Dave Hickey is Schaeffer Professor of Modern Letters at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Review:

'an attractive and richly illustrated five-volume survey. Much like Caro's continually overlapping series, these books reflect on related material from different perspectives, loosely organised by type or theme ...these books' main virtue lie in their close readings of individual works.' TLS --Tls

'...this series can be recommended as an overview of one of the last century's pivotal sculptors.' --The Art Book

About this edition

• Publisher: Tate
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1854375091
• ISBN 13: 9781854375094
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176