Abstraction and Reality
Subtitle: The Sculpture of Ivor Roberts-Jones
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited; Philip Wilson Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781781300107
Subjects: Art criticism; Sculpture, great britain
Description: "Ivor Roberts-Jones (1913 1996) was one of the finest sculptors working in Britain during the twentieth century. This book is the first in-depth study of this compelling artist who was responsible for the magisterial statue of Sir Winston Churchill which stands in London's Parliament Square. It incorporates a wealth of new research and never before published images of the artist's fascinating and wide-ranging output, including his numerous major public works such as a haunting figure of controversial painter Augustus John in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, and the doomed World War I poet Rupert Brooke in Rugby, Warwickshire. It also provides the first detailed examination of Roberts-Jones's standing as one of Britain's greatest portrait sculptors for whom a wide array of impressive personalities sat. Finally it explores his significant achievement as a sculptor of wild animals and his lifelong fascination with depicting the blind and visually impaired."--Publisher description.