Wild Thing

Wild Thing

Wild Thing

Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill

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9781905711468

    Richard Cork

    02-Nov-2009

    Hardback

S$87.50

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Jacob Epstein, Eric Gill andHenri Gaudier-Brzeska are the fathers ofmodern British sculpture. In a sustained burst of daring creativity before the FirstWorldWar, they revolutionised their field. In this compelling study, Richard Cork tells the story of these remarkable figures, exploring the idea of wildness that lay at the centre of their artistic creed. Looking far beyond the classical canon to gain inspiration fromwhat Gaudier-Brzeska called  the barbaric peoples of the earth (for whomwe have sympathy and admiration) , the three artists produced work whose sexual explicitness and boldness of formshocked contemporary viewers. Spectacular examples of these sculptures illustrate Cork s text, including Epstein smasterpiece, Rock Drill and Gaudier-Brzeska smonumental bust of Ezra Pound.

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