Barbara Hepworth
Subtitle: a retrospective
By: Penelope Curtis, Alan G. Wilkinson.
Contributors: Wilkinson, Alan G., 1941-; Hepworth, Barbara, Dame, 1903-1975.; Tate Gallery Liverpool.; Yale Center for British Art.; Art Gallery of Ontario.
Publisher: Tate Gallery Publications
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Hepworth, Barbara, Dame, 1903-1975 -- Exhibitions
Description: Barbara Hepworth's career spanned five decades, from 1925 to 1975. Her style moved from figuration, through geometric and organic abstraction, to the internationally acclaimed grandeur of her large-scale, post-war work. Her best known sculpture is associated with the landscape around St. Ives in Cornwall: 'I used colour and strings in many of the carvings ... The colour plunged me into the depths of water, caves or shadows deeper than the carved concavities themselves.

The strings were the tension I felt between myself and the sea, the wind or the hills.'. This publication focuses on Hepworth's unique carvings. It reassesses her reputation in the light of attention recently paid to her contemporaries, Ben Nicholson and Henry Moore and offers the opportunity to look afresh at a major British artist.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161).
Published to accompany an exhibition organised by Tate Gallery Liverpool and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1994-1995.
"Tate Gallery Liverpool, 14 September-4 December 1994; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 4 February-9 April 1995; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 19 May-7 August 1995."